If your not and ipod fan then consider this little beauty.
I was looking for an mp3 player for my forthcoming holiday but am not keen on ipods as there sound quality seems to get bad reviews so after some research, I came across this piece of kit.
Had some rave reviews on amazon, so i placed my order quite confidently.
Also another big selling point for me was wireless headphones something which I find more practical than a touch screen, but each to there own.
Now on receiveing my useful gadget i was suprised at how small it was. Smaller than most mobiles and very thin about 5mm at a guess. It also feels very nice in the hand and weighs next to nothing. Considering my last mp3 player was a creative the size of a small house the lasted about 20 mins play time, due to its energy zapping harddrive.
No issues there with this one, only balsa wood is lighter and a staggering 36 hours playing time, have not charged this unit for last 2 weeks, have used intermintently and still has full power.
Sound quality is very good even with supplied in ear headphones. Was a bit dubious about the bluetooth headphones which was another selling point (later about this) but too my suprise these were of very good quality and will use these on holiday.
Now the headphones. You get these with this 8gig but not with the 16gig and the cost about £59 seperately to buy so this represents good value in my book for a mp3 valued at £129 on Amazon.
This mp3 is very easy to use and very intuative. Now the bad points.
The supplied software is very slow and clunky which is usual in my experience for Sony barring the Sony vegas video software. However on the upside you can use Windows media player to drag and drop which makes the Sony software redundant.
Very fussy about video codecs (h.264/mpeg 4) only. I used dvdfab to do conversions but was still fussy about the settings. So was a bit of trial and error.
Could not get this to communicate with my phone/pc/ps3.
All in all. Practical for holidays/quality sound/wireless headphones/easy to use/unreal battery life/music/video and quality screen.
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A good review, but the errors really detract from it - instead of 'If your not and ' at the start I think you meant "if you're not an" - I find it helps to write reviews in Word first. Hope this helps! MaryX
jeaniecz 04.07.2008 00:15
very good review, sony music gadgets are great!
manlybeach 03.07.2008 23:18
36 hours of playback is really good compared to the ipod.
Advantages: Awesome sound quality, Good video playback, Sexy design, 36hours battery life! Disadvantages: No fm tuner, the bluetooth function is a waste of time.
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Review of Sony NWZ-A828 8GB
Advantages: Awesome sound quality, Good video playback, Sexy design, 36hours battery life! Disadvantages: No fm tuner, the bluetooth function is a waste of time.
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