Music smartphone?

Question

Software players

I remember Nokia used to be such, they actively emphasized this and even paid good musicians for using them in advertising.
And how are things now? At the moment I have an old phillips xenium, on which I can’t even access the Internet, an iPod classic for music and a touch for Wi-Fi. So I’m thinking, sell everything nafig, but what’s in return? Are there now such musical phones that have a good volume and, most importantly, sound good? (the sound of ipods really doesn’t suit me very much after I heard a friend’s cowon)

Answer 1

Initially, the iPhone was considered (and should, in theory, be considered) as such. I even met external amplifiers with a battery connected to a proprietary port, which already gave sound to the headphones.
HTC has BeatsAudio phones.

Answer 2

By God, buy Cowon D3 is better.
All the phones I've heard sound much worse, even than the cheap E2.

Answer 3

Now a music smartphone is an iPhone, for example, as proof, an American band plays music on them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=19KBAcJ53ak Nokia and Androids never dreamed of such a thing.
And as for the sound - it may not be in the phone, but in the headphones or in the incompatibility of the resistance of the headphones and the phone amplifier. As I understand it, the sound is now digital and almost everywhere the same.

Answer 4

Here you can find something suitable

Answer 5

When I was looking for a replacement for Cowon D2 six months ago, I took Meizu M9 (on an unofficial Meizu forum they said that it had better sound than the flagship at that time, MX, sound). Now I'm not overjoyed.