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Great sound, but not a Touch-killer yet – Sony Walkman X1000 Series
The portable music realm was the birth right of the Sony Walkman eons ago. To reclaims its throne, Sony has finally released its first touchscreen-operated Walkman – the Walkman X1000 series.
At first glance, it looks like a Sony Ericsson mobile phone. The granite-like edge around its perimeter gives the phone a solid feel and lessens the chances of it slipping from your hand.
Like Apple’s iPod Touch, adorning the face of the X1000 series is the display and a Home button that returns you to the main menu. However, there are more buttons on the X1000, with its top and right side housing the often-used volume control and playback keys. Another button activates the Digital Noise Cancelling technology, which works well in reducing ambient noise when paired with the bundled earphones.
Though the three-inch display is slightly smaller than that of the iPod Touch, it uses the energy-saving OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology and delivers a 10,000:1 contrast ratio and a wide viewing angle. The display has the same responsiveness as that of the iPod Touch. Likewise, the screen is also a magnet for smudges.
The audio quality of the X1000 series is excellent, delivering crisp vocals, strong bass, as well as smooth mid and high tones. Video playback is good, but popular file formats like AVI are not supported.
Although it comes bundled with its own software, you are better off using the USB hard drive mode as you can easily drag-and-drop your files into the player in Windows and Macintosh.
Presenting the stations on the built-in FM tuner is straightforward and reception is good. With WiFi connectivity, you can watch YouTube videos or podcasts smoothly. The one major quirk of the player is the half-baked Internet browser. You have to enter the website address painstakingly using the onscreen T9 alphanumeric keyboard. Even shortcuts for terms like “http://” and “.com” are not included.
The browser works for mobile-optimised websites. But for full websites, it sometimes struggles and gives up.
At $529 (16GB) and $699 (32GB), the X1000 series is a tad expensive when compared to rival offerings like the iPod Touch 32GB ($468). This is especially so when you consider the amount of third-party applications that the Apple App Store brings to the table.
Source from Trevor Tan
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