An MP3 Player that does the job. (Sony Walkman NW-A1000 6 GB)

Member Name: Emojojoe

Product:	Sony Walkman NW-A1000 6 GB
Date:	31/05/06 (199 review reads)
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Advantages: Attractive Design, Decent Storage Capacity, Easy Controls, Excellent Search options.

Disadvantages: Poor Response time, No extra features, Poor Software.

Firstly, I was impressed considerably with the Sony Walkman, having previously owned an Ipod Mini it was a refreshing change and the design was eye catching and exciting in comparison.

The software included with the player, Sony's own Connect player, however was less impressive. The interface of the software in contrast to the player itself was rather confusing and complex. The time to import and export songs, from CD's and to the player respectively, was at times inconvienent and excessively slow in comparison to the ease and speed of ITunes.

However,after putting a considerable chunk of my music collection on to the lightweight player I was impressed by the features it offered. There were numerous search and selection options to be found. Including searching by initial, either on a song, artist or album. There were also a number of random selection techniques which could be based on genre, year and rating.

There was however in my opinion a lack of extra features that the ipod possessed such as games and a text reader, however in the players defence it is not always necessary for an MP3 player to have these capabilities, however in my opinion it would have been a valuable addition.

I did encounter problems with the player eventually though, the response time between selecting songs and it actually playing became excessive and unacceptable as my collection expanded. This may just have been an isolated problem however as I have yet to receive a replacement due to Sony's policy of repairing over replacing.

Overall the player, despite a lack of bonus features and some dodgy support software, was an excellent one. It had a brilliant sound quality and was supplied with good quality Seinhouser headphones. The controls were reasonably simple and easy to use, despite the lack of a single button switch off, which may just have been a problem due to laziness on my part.

Summary: A great high quality, attractive player let down by some dodgy support software.

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