Nokia MD4 Mini Speakers

When the Nokia N78 came in the mail two weeks ago for review, it came with a set of small speakers. Didn’t knew Nokia was also making phone speakers and this one looks like they were specifically made for mobile phones.

The Nokia MD-4 Mini Speakers is a set of foldable speakers powered by 4 AAA batteries that churns out 0.5 watt (rms) of good quality sound. It’s not that loud but works well with a mobile phone or a small media player.

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Each satellite speaker has 6 micro-drivers and built-in amplifiers — each one as tall as a regular candy bar Nokia phone (like the Nokia 6120c or Nokia N78) but a little thicker in girth. A connector, 3.5mm can be hooked up to a phone but an audio adapter (Nokia AD-15) is also provided in the package as well as a headphone adapter (Nokia Universal Headphone Adapter).

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The audio connectors also serves as an FM radio antenna so you don’t need the headphones to tune in to radio stations.

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Nokia claims up to 30 hours of continuous play back time with the 4 AAA batteries but I haven’t seen it reach that time. There’s no volume control on the speakers, just a conspicuous ON-OFF switch.

I tested it against the X-Mini Speakers and the latter obviously had more bass. At top volume on an iPod Nano, the Nokia MD4 speakers sound distorted.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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9 Comments

Constantin says:

16 years ago

The internal chip is developed by NXP and nokia only co branded it ;-)
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Abe Olandres says:

16 years ago

Yup, it’s got a Nokia logo in it. Maybe co-branded?
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Mikey says:

16 years ago

is it really released by Nokia?
A friend got them as Xmas party giveaway from NXP Semiconductors (a company founded by Philips) last December 2006…

here’s the link:
http://www.nxp.com/acrobat_download/literature/9397/75015844.pdf
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Abe Olandres says:

16 years ago

@Migs, it has the same speaker placement as my old Nokia 6120 but the sound quality is okay naman.
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MiGs says:

17 years ago

May kasamang MD-4 speakers and Nokia n78 kasi ang panget ng sounds ng speakers ng n78. Tapos ang panget din ng placement ng speakers… Sayang..
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joeyboy says:

17 years ago

yugs, di ka pumunta kagabi.

ok yan speaker mo ah, parang pang straight ng buhok. hehehe
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