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First Impressions Of Sony Walkman (NWA-1000)

Opening the sleek black box I found the player, it looked near enough majestic within its presentation box. After I finished staring in awe of its shinyness I took it out of the box, I was amazed how tiny it is the size sits perfectly into the palm of you hand. It is built ergonomically with the buttons placed. The buttons are responsive and navigation is easy with the new 3X3 menu layout, from the main menu you can access your music and the settings. the OLED screen is amazing its clear and has a semi hypnotic glow to it, but it doesn’t do to well in sunlight which is a slight pain, but its readable.

Now out of the box there were some headphones, USB cable, Mains charger unit where you have to plug the USB cable to charge it from the mains. The CONNECT software is painfully slow, but it does its job. Transfer speeds are also worthy of shedding a tear over, transferred over about 1 GB of music in 10 mins ish. Actual sound quality is very good, bass being responsive but not over powering. The volume is lacking somewhat in loudness even with the volume limiter function switched off. It is quite loud though but not to my liking. I’m using the SONY EX71SL in-ear headphones to get the best sound, I found that the headphones that came with them weren't even on a bog standard level to normal headphones. I haven't had that much time with it to say about it's time shuffle and favourite shuffle options that it boasts, but I will give it a full review over the next week or two.









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[ This Message was edited by: waibun_lee on 2005-11-22 18:57 ]
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Posted: 2005-11-22 19:49:41
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Do you have to use the supplied software to transfer the mp3s to it or does it also just shopw up as an external drive that you can dump everything onto?

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Posted: 2005-11-22 21:37:19
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really cool device but i can see figure prints all over this one!
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Posted: 2005-11-22 22:22:24
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Well you could use the software, but it shows up as an external device as well.
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Posted: 2005-11-22 23:09:08
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very nice indeed!
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Posted: 2005-11-22 23:39:22
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These things are pretty big though, and pretty expensive, in comparison to apple products...

But i love the design, the screen behind the mirrored finish looks great.
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Posted: 2005-11-23 00:58:24
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the UI on these is the first in the Sony Walkman range to be more intuitive than the ipod'd, in my opinion.

very nice, shame they dont do a 40Gb one yet...
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Posted: 2005-11-23 01:03:51
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@ kk.226, for a HDD Player the size is impressive, it is very thin and robust from what i can tell so far. Compared to it's main competitor, the ipod mini (9.1 cm x 5.1 cm x 1.3 cm) compared to the Sony
(8.8 x 5.5 x 1.87 cm) it is fairly smaller. Also with the Sony walkman theres more value for money, on average the ipod mini is about £140 ish for 4GB whilst with the sony walkman you get 6GB for about £160 ish with a slighly longer battery life. It boils down to, you want to be sheep and follow he ipod craze or get something worth your cash?
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Posted: 2005-11-23 01:39:31
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does sony let there players use acc or lossless yet for improved sound quality or is it still sticking with mp3 and the old and poor atrac.

[ This Message was edited by: slattery69 on 2005-11-23 08:58 ]
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Posted: 2005-11-23 09:36:37
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Im afraid it doesn't support AAC
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Posted: 2005-11-23 12:34:38
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