Sony Walkman X Series 16 GB Video MP3 Player w/ OLED Display

Comment: I am not an iPod person. I tried several MP4 players until i got this one which is excelent.

The battery lasts for more that 48 hours if you let it drain completely and recharge.
The quality of the sound is amazingly good and noise suppression while traveling on a plane is awesome.
32Gb is preety good capacity for video and music.
The video quality is very good considering the size of the screen. Even subtitles can be read easily.
I am happy with this walkman.

Comment: Much has already been written so I won't go over all that. I only want to say that the battery life is in NO WAY any where near 33 hours (or 9 hours of video). You can maybe watch 5 hours before it's time to recharge. Also, when you turn if off and come back a week later, you need to charge it if you want to do any serious video watching. Sony should have definitely put a hi-capacity battery in it or have made it user replaceable. Music and video quality are excellent!

Just my two cents worth...

Comment: What can I say other than wow. I have an 8GB iPod. Have nothing bad to say about it. Great product and easy to use. However, upon listening to my Sony Walkman X series, the sound quality blows away the iPod. I have read many reviews about the web browsing sucking on the Sony Walkman X series device. Frankly, I could care less as I use a computer or phone (if need be) to surf the web. I just wanted a player that had both FM radio (works great by the way) and could play audio files.
For those that place high regard for music output quality, I'd highly recommend the Sony Walkman X series or any other in the Sony series for that matter. It's very cool that the few albums I purchased through iTunes transferred with no problem (through the Content Manager application disc that Sony provides) on to the Sony Walkman X. Alice In Chains sounds really good on this player.
I'm very pleased with this device.
Noise cancelling headphones really do the job!

Comment: PROS:
sound quality
integrated digital noise cancelling
slacker internet radio
youtube app
responsive touchscreen
high contrast/ bright colors for video

CONS:
no on-the-go playlists
content transfer can be difficult
price
mildly useless browser


For this review, I'm going to compare the Walkman x to the Zune HD and the iPod touch, as these are the products i considered as well as the Walkman.

The iPod has innumerable apps, which make it invaluable to people who want a do-everything gadget. In my experience however (mostly with a 30GB iPod video), iPods tend to look great out of the box and then quickly acquire scratched cases, cracked screens and absolultly refuse to do anything other than what iTunes allows. Another downside I have noticed is that iPods tend to have only mediocre sound quality.

The Zune HD (or Microsoft's iPod) appeals to the same form factor: a portable music player with a subscription based music downloading software bundled. By my calculations, the Zune subscription service is a better deal than iTunes, if one downloads a song every day. The Zune has HD radio, an OLED screen and a better subscription service, but few apps. The Zune it seems to me appeals to people who want an iPod that focuses on music and download a lot.

Which brings us to the Walkman x, which I purchased. The Walkman has excellent sound quality. All the reviews say this, but it is truly something impressive, even from bundled ear buds. The touchscreen is very responsive and just fun to scroll around with. The screen is bright and sharp (with great contrast) without ever being harsh on the eyes and the player feels solid in the hand. For my money, it's a tank next to an iPod (the last Ipod i owned gathered scratches from the fabric of my pocket) as far as durability is concerned. The noise cancelling is a wonderful feature (It can make a lawnmower next to you inaudible or a car at highway speeds silent), even if it cuts the battery life like a shiv. There are a few pitfalls to it however: It will sync album art from windows media player, but not from iTunes (unless it is embedded, i believe). The content transfer app really just copies and converts music files. and there is no way to create playlists on the player itself. It will sync playlists from window media (although i could not get it to use the ones from iTunes.) The player occasionally does stupid things like separate the same artist into two different ones based on a difference of "The" and "the". the Walkman has several good points however: the slacker app and the youtube app being among the first. While playing a song you have the option to search yahoo or youtube for the song, artist or album you are listening to, which I quite like, even if the browser is fairly uninspiring (it only displays mobile versions of most webpages and it is a bit slow) Slacker however is another story. once you sync it with a normal slacker account (not very well documented, but not to frightening)you get unlimited slacker music (1 commercial per hour, 6 skips per hour) for free, cached to your Walkman.

Overall I would recommend this product to anyone who wants a music player first and foremost and who cares about sound quality above all. The Walkman is great at playing music and videos (I had no more trouble getting it to play video that I had with an iPod), and the radio is par for the course as portable radios go. The browser isn't impressive, and there is no app store for it. If you care about sound more than adding extra gadgets to your mp3 player, get a Walkman.

Comment: I would love to buy this product but not having built in speakers has ended up self rating these under my sony Walkman S series. I don't know why sony can't create a good product like this for i love the built in wifi and everything but to me it's not worth buying because it lacks the internal speakers. A decent sony walkman player is worth my pay check but yet to find one yet. I was thinking on buying a Zune or i-pod but they lack internal speakers except for the i-pod but their internal speaker is garbage, the Sony Walkman S has the best internal speakers I've ever heard. I myself would love to see and spend my money on a walkman with:
32 to 64 MBs
internal speakers
built in wifi
FM radio
good sound quality for both the internal speakers and ear buds
built in clock/ alarm settings
good quality voice and audio recorder
Well that's about it, but sony is all about advancement and i trust that they'll get there some day, hopefully before there competitors. Well that's it, hopefully someone from sony is reading
Thanks, From: miqAbrannon