Sony NWA3000 MP3 Player

Having seen the Sony NWA3000 on Techlounge recently, I could not wait to get my hands on one these, they really are one of the most sexyist designs to come from Sony and that’s saying something.

Following on from the success Sony NW-HD3, Sony have upped the aesthetics and quite frankly put some of the competition to shame. This little player is going to sell like hot cakes this christmas you mark my words. It is available in three colours, black, sliver and purple and weighs just 182 grams, and Sony claims battery life to be in the region of 36 hours. As with the NDW-HD3 it has a built in 20gb Hard Drive that will allow a maximum of 13,000 tracks to be stored. There is a 6GB version available as well, the Sony NWA3000. Recharging is through a standard USB connector and unlike other Sony walkmans, this player has a rather sleek silver plinth style docking bay and charger (the Sony BCR-NWU1 ) available as an optional extra. As a user of a mobile phone that syncs to my PC, I can safely say that these sorts of products really do come in very handy when using the product on a day to day basis.

Sound quaility was where its predecessor the Sony NW-HD3 really excelled and this walkman builds on that with a quality of sound that is much fuller and overall better than any other MP3 player I have listened too. The only problem I have is that the maimum volume level is fixed at a ridiculously low level in the EU (something to do with ear sound level pressure regulations from Brussels !). I have not tried with this model, but there was a fix for previous models where you could enter a secret engineers menu on the walkman and disable this feature as I would imagine most purchasers of this would want.

To sum up , I really think Sony have a winner on their hands this winter and I would be sure to get down to your local stockists straight away if you don’t want to be disappointed before christmas….Apple watch out !

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