Sony Walkman NW-A3000 20 GB

Sadly i feel the Sony NW-A3000 has been hit badly by the typical reacton of "lets compare this to the i-pod", the problem with this reaction being that the Sony loses a lot of marks for its own innovations and quality as an mp3 player in exchange for a lot of "but i pods do this and that". So to begin with I'd like to say I am activly choosing not to do this typical comparison, and instead talk about Sony players advantages and disadvantages in regards to their own merits. The price is incredibly fair for an mp3 player of such memory capability and quality, often a good few tens of pounds cheaper than other players in its class. This may ...

I got this as a birthday gift near the start of the year, back then I felt the price was a little steep but at the sametime reasonable because of the Sony nametag. Main reason I thought it was steep was because there was no colour screen just a basic LCD and the features were minimal and basic (Playlists, Shuffle, Repeat) although I feel most people wouldn't mind anything more than the basic features so it's not much of a disadvantage. But it did have features like intelligent shuffle which allowed it to shuffle with only certain rated songs (all songs rated 5 stars) and songs from certain year etc. Battery Life - When I first got it, charged it up and put ...

The Sony Walkman A3000 impresses as soon as you unwrap it, without doubt one of the most stylish players about. However, the functionality of this players really lets it down, and leaves it sadly lacking compared to similar products from competitors. The sound quality if fine, but it's just far too quiet, it is not possible to crank the sound up to a suitable level for when using in situations where there is a lot of background noise. The software provided with it 'connect' is almost not useable as it is painfully slow and frequently freezes or crashes. You can use 'sonicstage' software instead, but this means that you lose some of the functions ...