I bought 3 of these in different colors for my three kids. They wanted the more expensive ipod nano, but since the new version is so small (and they already lost ipod shuffle's because they were so small)I opted for the walkman. The kids and I love the walkman. It's got all the capabilities that they wanted without the price. I was able to use our itunes library to load with songs and videos and it was easy! Great value for the price. Sony Walkman NWZ-E354 8GB Digital Music Player (Blue)
My daughters, ages 13 and 8, both bought one of these with their holiday money. What a great choice! It came ready to go straight from the box. Both Sony's were fully charged and started right up, navigating was simple and syncing with our computer was a snap. Even our 8 year old opened it right up and moments later had videos uploaded and was happily listening to her favorite songs. The video quality is absolutely amazing. The screen isn't overly large but the image is crystal clear. Sure, they both love the ipod touches and admittedly, this lil gadget is only for music/book listening and video watching-not playing games or communicating electronically--but for the price and given their primary desire was to listen to music and watch some videos, this was a perfect choice and is still compact enough to easily carry around or even run with. A+ My only regret is not yet upgrading my own Philips GoGear
This is the best music player with all the features that you need. The price is perfect and should be advertised more to give IPOD a run for its money. Music, movies, pictures, pod casts, and FM radio all for under $70.00.
First of all, I received this item two days early. Thank you amazon.
FM Radio- Overall very good.The connection is very good and you can hear the sound very well. You also have the option of creating a preset channel. Helpful because you don't have to scroll through EVERY SINGLE channel each time you want to listen to a specific channel.
SensMe- I though it was very useless. What it does is it plays songs according to the mood you choose. It only can read the moods of the songs pre-loaded into it. But since I don't use it, I don't really care. Minor...
Playlists- You can make playlists on your computer and put them on your Walkman. Seemed pretty simple. Works great.
Videos- You can put videos on your Walkman. They show up surprisingly good and look great. The only con is not very compatible.
Music- THE BEST FEATURE! When you select the "music" icon from your home screen, it organizes your music into All songs, Album, Artist, Genre, Release Year, and Playlists. ( two more options book mark and folder but im not looking into that.)When you select a song a screen poops up that shows the cover art, the little time bar, the song name, artist, and the album name. Great layout.Last but not least the music sound quality is great. I enjoy this thoroughly.
Pictures- You can put pics on the Walkman. haven't really used the feature but the sample pics look great and very clear. You can put a group a pictures as a screensaver or set one as your background.
Podcasts- NEVER looked into that. Sorry.
Settings- in the settings there are music, video, podcast, photo, FM radio, alarm/sleep timer,common, and language settings.
Controls- Arrow pad around a play/pause buttons. When you wrap your hand around the Walkman your fingers go straight there. Very easy to press. There is also a option button that you can hold to power off. There is also a back button that you can hold to go to the home screen.
Screen-The quality is really good. Everything shows up nice and bright. Doesn't scratch very easily or anything.
Capacity- Its says 8gb but is actually 6.99.
I bought this for my daughter right after Christmas since her previous MP3 player had died on her. Her boyfriend was trying to convince her to go with I-Pod, but I refused to download I-tunes onto my computer. I went to a local electronics store and seen this exact MP3 player (just different color) and I liked it and thought I would check on Amazon to see if I could purchase it cheaper and I did! After the first week of my daughter having it, her boyfriend has now ditched his I-pod and has this exact MP3 player as well. I'd say, if you can convince him to ditch I-anything... The product is really good.
I have owned this MP3 for 3 months now. I am very happy with the ease of operation and the fact that I loaded it in no time. You don't need an entire manual. The website is available if you need any help. I think this a great player for the money and would recommend it. You don't have to be a techie to figure it out and love the fact that it plugs into my car.
This MP3 player stands up well to the more expensive iPOD and players I've heard on smart phones.
Personally as a musician, my main concern was sound quality and the walkman covers that as well as the above mentioned.
The EQ is pretty basic, but so is iPOD's. Its an easy to use machine, easy to navigate.
Space is kind of iffy, 8gigs isn't much if you're using uncompressed WAV. Probably have 50 or so albums so far, with space for another 15 or so. Not a big number, but not too bad either.
Battery lasts a long time, can use it two work days on one charge. Thats almost 20 hours of playing, sometimes through speakers.
Whatever MP3 player you go with I recommend picking up decent headphones and a portable amp. Good headphones can be found around here (amazon?) for around $100 and a basic amp for $20, these will multiply the value and experience of your player. Without decent head phones you'd mine as well just save the money or use it for something else like cheap hookers and opium - the buds MP3 players come with are really worthless.
Recommended bottom-level phones (at around $100):
Sennheiser HD 448
Sennheiser HD 595
Audio Technica ATH AD700 (really big, really-really good sound quality for the price but bass is a bit low - amp helps)
Audio Technica ATH-A700
AKG Acoustics k-240
Grado Prestige series sr80i
(Bose are okay too, but overpriced. Currently wrapped up in a pair) - Sony Mp3 Player - Sony Walkman Mp3 Player - Mp3 Player - Sony'
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