Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1482 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: NWZA818B.CE7
• Released on: 2007-09-14
• Dimensions: .39" h x .39" w x .39" l, .12 pounds

Features

• SONY MP3 PLAYER
• 8GB MP3 PLAYER
• VIDEO AND PHOTO
• UPTO 2.4" LCD SCREEN
• IN BLACK

Manufacturer's Description

The Sony Video WALKMAN NWZA Series

Easy Operation Crystal clear display coupled with a simple user interface means that you can find your music, video and photos quickly and easily. Intuitively designed, the WALKMAN video offers enhanced searching (and cover art display) meaning you can conveniently access every classification (artist/album/genre etc) from the Now Playing page.

Video Playback Video playback lets you play video 'podcasts', downloaded content from other internet sites, TV content recorded directly to your PC, and even movies you shot on your camcorder. It's versatile and easy to use. You can change screen format from vertical (portrait) to horizontal widescreen (landscape) and you can zoom in during playback. Stores up to 1000 video files. High speed playback, up to 30 frames per second for smooth viewing. With the 8GB version, you can store as much as 32 hours of video (at 384kbs).

Photo Playback Your mobile picture library. Play your photos individually or use the slideshow setting. Plus you can even enhance the experience by adding a soundtrack. Easy to use, you can display your photos in portrait or landscape. The display format of the photo list can also be changed to your preference: ‘Title Only’, ‘Title With Thumbnail’ or ’Thumbnail Only’.

Your Music Downloads Your WALKMAN NWZA is WMT compatible, so you can purchase and download music from most online music providers – look for the ‘Plays for sure’ logo.

Easy Music Transfer Transferring music to your WALKMAN couldn’t be easier – simply select, drag and drop compatible files using ‘My Computer’ and you are ready to go!

Multi Format Music Playback The WALKMAN NWZA series plays a variety of file types including WMA / MP3 / AAC / Linear –PCM Intuitively designed, the WALKMAN video offers enhanced searching (and cover art display) meaning you can conveniently access every classification (artist/album/genre etc) from the Now Playing page.

4 Clear Audio Technologies WALKMAN has always stood for the highest quality portable audio. The WALKMAN video NWZA has four ‘Clear Audio’ technologies: Clear Stereo: Technology keeping the two signals clearly separate. So what you should be hearing in your left ear will never ‘leak’ into the right ear. Digital Sound Enhancement Engine (DSEE): This unique feature improves compressed audio quality restoring high frequency signals to poor recording. Clear Bass: Gives clear, rich bass without distortion. EX-Headphone: The unique shape of the earphones allows the biggest possible sound unit (13.5mm) whilst maintaining the most comfortable in-ear fit.

Display 2" QVGA colour LCD, high resolution (320 x 240), high brightness, high contrast and superior colour reproduction display your videos at their best. To avoid the problem sometimes experienced when viewing small screens, Sony has used its TV expertise to create a great picture. For example, using a low temperature poly-silicon TFT panel with LED backlight to reproduce 262,144 individual colours so mobile viewing does not mean compromising on quality.

Battery Life Prolong your entertainment with the WALKMAN video. Fully charged you can access thirty hours worth of music playback or eight hours of video. To fully charge the battery takes only three hours. *Music: ATRAC 132 kbps **Video MPEG-4 384kbps

Dimensions Big sound and big screen performance doesn't need to weigh you down. When you're on the move with a WALKMAN video, size is everything. Length: 88mm Width: 43.8mm Depth: 9.1mm Thinnest part of WALKMAN: 8.3mm Weight: 53g

Colour And Memory Options 8GB - Pink / Black / White - up to 5500 tracks or 32 hours of videofiles 4GB - Pink / Black / White - up to 2700 tracks or 15 hours of videofiles 2GB - Black / White - up to 1300 tracks or 7 hours of videofiles

Box Contents

• Main unit
• USB cable(Wmport to USB A Trype)
• Headphones (MDREX082)
• CD-ROM

Customer Reviews

Great little player
Very impressed. This is a great little player. Sound quality is excellent especially with the headphones supplied (I have used the extension supplied to increase the cord length of the headphones).

Easy drag and drop either from file to file or easy sync in media player... easy to navigate. Very sturdy, quality feel.

I really like that you can only edit on the computer.... so there is no worry about accidentally deleting anything off the player while it is being used.

I was originally looking at the ipod but now that Sony has opened it's doors to drag & drop/media player decided to try this walkman instead (NWZ-A818). Extremely pleased.

I found it a bit tricky to work out how to transfer video to the player but have now worked this out. You need to convert your video to MP4 (lot's of free programs can do this). I use Free Studio Manager(natty little program). You will need to convert to PSP or ipod format - make sure you set resolution to 320x240 and way to go. Then just copy and paste into your walkman video file.

My only disappointments are that there is no case included and I am finding it difficult to find compatible charging stations and speakers or they are VERY expensive.

Otherwise, a great little player...couldn't be more pleased!

Average Sony player
This average player is easy to use once you have everything on it, with 8gbs fitting nearly 3,500 tracks using wma 64kbps quality. There are problems however. The short lead on the head phones at the length of just over 30cm. If you don't have a shirt pocket then you have no where to put it. There's plenty of cord between the two ear phones at 55cm and there's no logic to that. Why have such a short main lead to the player. The sound with the head phones supplied is not as good as a cheaper pair of Sony one's I had before, which is strange as the head phones supplied are a lot more expensive separately.

The player doesn't come with any software for changing clips to mp4. Using Media Player to upload is a pain, and you can't always get the right album info or album art from their search. It also has to configure wma files while it's uploading in Media Player to the player (enough time was spent converting mp3 files to wma) so this lengthens the upload time. You have a feature to make up your own sound setting and save. The options there sound muffled and don't improve the sound. You have club, live, heavy, pop, unique and karaoke etc, and a few others. I managed to get a clear sound in the edit option that sounds much better then just having the normal or no effects setting set. Playing movies and clips works well and looks good on the colour screen once you have converted them to mp4.

The player went wrong once and stated that everything had gone. This happened while I was transferring wma files over in Windows Explorer, it froze up and wouldn't recognize anything on there. Although when I checked in Windows Explorer all the files where still showing on the player. I should have tried the re set button but forgot,
and wiped the player and up loaded everything which took an age. The screen is easy to scratch, but most screens are. I have a clear screen case that goes over the player, but that scratches too.

Overall it's a well made player (as you would expect from Sony) that has many problems while getting it ready first off, and a few annoying ones while using...

Amazing
I've been trying to choose a good mp3 player for a while now and this one came up as one of the best on amazon...with over 150 5 star reviews.

I looked at some iPods but I heard the battery life isn't very good and the durability of them isn't that long. I also find the sound quality of the iPod average, a little bit muffled.

In the end I chose this mp3 player because it was cheaper (even cheaper than amazon because I got a brand new one from ebay for £85) than the iPod and the battery life was a striking feature.

The sound quality is amazing. User interface is easy to use. Drag and drop easy as well.

Only criticism is the annoyance of converting non-mp4 vids into mp4...and for some reason my photos I've uploaded don't work! However, they are very minor problems as I brought this product entirely for the music side and sony have not failed on that part.