Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13800 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: NWE005BC
• Released on: 2006-05-15
• Number of items: 1

Manufacturer's Description
The all new MP3 WALKMAN flash

Intuitive and innovative

The brand new MP3 WALKMAN Flash is not just beautifully small and lightweight, it's such an amazing music player that you'll be wondering how you ever managed without it in no time at all.

As well as its attractive design, available in a range of colours including black, violet, pink, blue, silver and a very exclusive lime green, the new E Series is tiny, as small as a pack of chewing gum and packs a real punch when it comes to playing your favourite tunes on the move.

To make life even easier, it comes with a built-in direct USB jack which means you can simply plug it in to your PC and transfer all your favourite music within seconds. As well as being very easy to use, you get up to 28* hours playback with the fantastic rechargeable battery.

*when using ATRAC 132 kbps with the power save mode set at 'super'

If this wasn't enough, it only takes a mere three minutes to charge in order to enjoy up to three hours of playback. So plug it in, make a cup of tea and your new E Series is ready to entertain you for the next three hours. For a full charge, the E Series only needs two hours.

You also get a set of headphones, the essential SonicStage3.4 CD-ROM and a quick start guide whether you choose the 512 MB, 1 GB version or the 2 GB one. So once you've made your purchase, you're ready to go. Other accessories available are an attractive armband, a silicon protective case, an acrylic splash-proof case and a clip with 3 caps making this one of the most stylish music players on the market.

If this wasn't enough to make you rush out and buy your E Series WALKMAN, it's also worth noting that it comes fully equipped with stop watch and a clock and calendar function too. And if you are a radio fan the 512 MB and 1 GB versions have the option of an *FM tuner.

*FM tuner versions not available from all retailersAny which way you like it

The E Series offers unbelievable sound quality, especially when using Sony ATRAC compression technology. Furthermore it's also compatible with the most commonly used compression formats such as MP3 and WMA*.

* WMA files with DRM protection are not supported

Looking for more tunes? Turn to Connect Online Music Store

If you are looking at expanding your music collection with the latest tunes, you can easily find them through the Connect Online Music Store. Over 1,000,000 tracks are waiting to be added to your E Series WALKMAN.

Whichever colour you choose or whichever size, you are destined to love your new E Series WALKMAN Flash and you will never leave home without it.

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Customer Reviews

Great little device but needs improving.
Really handy piece of kit for traveling although not quite upto Sony's usual standards in sound quality as the volume is not quite loud enough on these and there are not adjustments for bass or treble.

Other than that it's nice and easy to use and has great battery life.

avoid
Look elsewhere...seriouslly. i ignored similar posts to the ones here and bought it anyway. The software is diabolical and horrendously slow. This is the main problem with this unit. Secondly, the noise cancelling in one ear ceased to work after 5 days.Its useless with only one earpiece enabled.Sony were absolutely not interested in replacing it. I should have kept my receipt so am partly to blame. However, these units all have batch numbers which point to the date and location where they were made.So the issue about it being out of guarantee , ie more than a year, is rendered invalid.They were , and remain , completely disinterested in forwarding me a new set.I sent them the set of earphones and they sent it straight back. I have bought a replacement non noise cancelling set and the unit works fine. However, the noise cancelling was what drove me to buy it in the first place and now I dont have that function.However, the software alone is reason enough to steer clear. You have been warned.

Nw-E005BC
This is a great little unit, with superb sound quality for the size. The battery life is amazing and the time to recharge (from USB port) can't be beaten. The earphones are of good quality (although jumping on the ipod bandwagon being white!) with great bass and tone. Once you get used to the controls, it is extremely easy to navigate around and you can find most features relatively quickly. This is perfect for the gym due to it's size and weight. On the other side, sadly I have to say after owning Sony Mp3's for many years now that I regret the day I ever chose Sony. This is all down to the terrible Sonicstage software. Yes it is easy to use, but it limits you to Sony hardware for the rest of your life (unless you want to reload hundreds of Cd's onto your computer) and sadly ever since I loaded the version of sonicstage that came with this MP3 onto my computer it has made all newly recorded albums skip and jump and it no longer allows me to transfer previously loaded albums onto my new MP3! Frustrating in the extreme. So overall, great MP3 player, terrible software.