As the total suggests, I am looking for a cheap android phone to pair with a dock/speaker to replace a broken cd player in my daughter's room. It will mainly be used to play music at sleep time and as CD's always seem to get scratched I thought this would be a better option. I have found this one for $39 which I think fits the bill and looks like it's in stock, are there any better/cheaper options I should be considering?
Maybe think about getting a Chromecast Audio? Although wait until it is on sale first! A bit pricey at 58 dollars.
Would be what the OP wants but I think it has been discontinued so you might not be able to find it anymore.
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HN actually selling the normal CC quite cheap… $38, just set it up on a monitor before hand or something and then plug it into your speakers
The issue would be the HDMI out I think otherwise this would be a winner.
What inputs do you have on your speakers? I'd assume AUX is one, anything else?
@ProjectZero: I haven't actually got the speakers yet, none of the ones I have looked at has HDMI though
@tryagain: Actually, going to suggest getting the CC and one of those adapters from ebay. Saw a few HDMI adapters that give our RCA, you might be able to find one that has AUX.
@ProjectZero: There are adapters available, from what I have seen though they seem to be hdmi out not in.
Wow didn't know the Cc Audio has been discontinued. I'm actually looking out for one when it comes down to a reasonable price, missed the last 38 dollar deal.
I heard it was discontinued, not too sure though, I could be wrong.
I like the chromecast audio idea, hadn't thought of that.
I'd be mindful that the really cheap Android phones may have issues streaming music - especially if they have a minuscule amount of RAM.
I'd also like options - including 2nd hand up to 3 yrs old - as a car MP3 player.
My car audio system is incompatible with apple devices on shuffle mode (shuffle cannot be activated - known bug), and sh!ts itself with more than 4gb of files when an apple device or USB is plugged in (it indexes all files on the device first!), so I want a phone to stream via BT. I'll need 32GB of storage (happy with an SD card). That's all it'll be used for.
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