I bought one of these without the usual saddo competitive analysis - so mesmerised was I. It's beautiful, really beautiful. In this space its competing with the iPod Nano, not as a primary portable device (due to disk size), but as something so small and perfectly crafted that you can always have it with you, a portable tribute to your most recent music....
So, what can be said about it. Menu navigation. Hmm, not great - if you've had an iPod you'll not be happy. But you may still forgive it.... Sound quality - superb. Supports Atrac and MP3 - important to mention since Sony took a while to understand they needed to support MP3.
But (and here it all crumbles). Volume! European Sony Network Walkmans have the volume limitation set in accordance to the European Standard EN50332-1 (2000) making them impossibly quiet. So quiet, in fact, that they are pointless.
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