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Having owned an ipod (which kept crashing!), creavtive zen (which kept freezing) and a creative micro (which I broke) I can honestly say this is the best player. I simply use Windows media to 'sync' music! The player looks exceptionally sleek and is easy to navigate. I have the violet coloured player, and love that I can put pics on it. The sound quality is fine and the head phones although looking weird are very comfy and stay in! Argos have this player on promo right now a bargain at 59.99! You really won't be dissapointed!

This is just an amazing MP3 player... It beats any other MP3 player by far. How are these other companies still running?

Now, the BIGGEST mistake you can make when buying an MP3 player, is to buy a ipod. Don't. Just don't. They are the worst things ever made in history. Useless battery, rubbish sound quality, unreliable, weak.

But this MP3 player... Wow. Amazing battery life, amazing sound quality, sony - so reliable, and very strong.

SOFTWARE
Now, many people complain about sonicstage... Why? I have not a clue. I'm guessing it is because they are useless, stupid people who can't even switch on a computer. Sonicstage is better than iTunes by far, and you don't have to buy extra software to transfer videos to it, it comes with it!

There is a review on this site, which I swear the person must be talking about a different product... Here it is:

"i own a few players so can give some meaningful comparison - so let me list why i can only give this latest Sony player 1 star.... "
Most useless comparison.

"1) transfer speeds = v.v.slow! I have a Sony NWA1200 6GB and to transfer all my music files on to it takes about 15minutes. On this NWA808 to transfer exactly the same music files took the best part of 2hours!! "
Transfer speeds are well quick enough. It has been proven to be faster than any ipod... Don't understand why your complaining...

"2) when 8GBs isn't 8GBs! = transferring all my music files on to my NWA1200 6GB left me with 1.1GB of free space. Transferring exactly the same files on to the NWA808 8GB, well, can't be done - i ran out of space with 3 playlists still to transfer! So 2GB extra space = less storage capacity (this has to be a Sony!) "
It's 7.56GBs according to windows, 8,127,348,736 bytes. If you hadn't noticed, this is what happens with all media. Consider - Formatting, Software to run the player, and 1GB is 1,073,741,824 bytes according to windows, but according to media companys it's 1,000,000,000.
So it is about standard...

"3) doesn't recognise deletes = given the above, i tried to free up some space, but no, deleting around 1GB of data is not recognised - so the freed up disc space isn't available and in fact you're left worse off than if you hadn't deleted it! Whether this is an issue with the player or Sony's pitifully poor SonicStage software, who know, and who cares at this point!"
Have you ever heard of reading the user guide?? Eh? You should try it some day before making yourself sound stupid.
There isn't a delete, there is a move to the trash bin. It will then be deleted next time you connect your player to your computer and use sonicstage.

"4) 8GB for a video player = who are Sony kidding! I bought this for music only, which is just as well because even without the above issues, 8GB for music and video just isn't enough - unless you're willing to put up with poor quality music and video playback.
I've got a 30G video iPod and this seems a more sensible storage capacity for any player claiming to offer video playback."
Do you really want to put a full length movie on a device this size? The video is for small clips/podcasts etc.

"5) no external charger = you'll need your computer handy to charge the NWA 808 or own a compatible charger from another Sony player (i do), or buy one i guess, Sony don't supply one for their £170 price tag..."
What companies do? That's is an optional extra. I don't need one... Don't need one with it.

"Sony players do offer superior music quality playback vs. iPods - that's why i prefer them. But, you will have to tolerate Sony's continued incompetence to get things right with both their players and especially their software - wanna understand how Apple were able to come from nowhere to eat Sony's lunch in the music player market? compare Sonic Stage from Sony to iTunes from Apple - and 3years in, nothing's changed...."

SONY BEATS APPLE ALL THE WAY!! END OF! Not one thing about the ipod is better. Ipods are useless crap, and Apple is useless. Apple have never got one thing right. Sony have got plenty of things right - certainly when it comes to MP3 players. Sony are the best at making MP3 player, always have been, always will be.


So overall, don't buy any other player, just get this.

Whikst I agree with all of the comments made about the NWA808FB Walkman, I am disappointed to find that unlike other media players on the market, there doesn't seem to be any method for connecting the Sony Walkman to the sound/video inputs of a TV monitor or the AV inputs of a domestic TV receiver.

No adapter was received with the device and I cannot see anyone advertising such a connection adapter - not even on the Sony site!

Very small and cute with excellent sound quality downloading the videos and pictures was very easy just drag and drop into to it's image converter programme which you can download seperate to Sonic Satge 4.3.

The Sonic stage 4.3 worked fine however I have had issues with sonic stage over the years and if it worries you I was able to download off Sonic stage 3.4 on my partners computer, this is an old machine and I would not risk trying 4.3 as I think this is mainly for Vista operating programmes.
Also I would recommend copying your CDs in MP3 format and converting them to Attrac 48kbs when loading on to the player (this takes a bit more time but gives you more options if in the future you change to another player as you can import into another programe in MP3).

I have bought several different versions of this model now for my family for Christmas presents.