There is some serious competition going on in the market nowadays in the music player arena. There is Apple with its huge lineup consisting of iPods, iPod nano and the shuffle, Archos with composite devices, Zune HD from Microsoft to mention a few. Mobile phones with music enabled applications are too many to mention here, in fact there is hardly a mobile phone today irrespective of any manufacturer in the mid-price category that does not have a music player. iPhones…. well that’s a separate category altogether. Sony has just unveiled its new lineup of music devices that are impressive by all standards, looks, functionality and features. Yes sir, you guessed it right I am talking about the A-Series devices. These are ultra-thin mean looking music players that will have you drooling right from the first look. The thinnest to date I guess a mere 7.2 mm that will put to shame any size zero model on the ramp. And who said music means audio only, well video is included too and so is TV out at 720 x 480 SD quality. The screen is an impressive 2.8” WQVGA OLED. The rapper comes in three models NW-A845, NW-A846 and the NW-A847 with different storage capacities of 16, 32 and 64 GB. Forget about Wi-Fi or a touch screen, no reasons given for this lapse, though. Features include drag and drop music, digital amplifier, FM Radio, digital noise cancelling that promises to deliver clear and crisp sound via the included MDR-EX300SL earphones. The various formats/codecs supported are MP3, WMA, AAC, ATRAC, PCM/wav, ATRAC AL, HE-AAC and MPEG-4 and WMV for movies. The battery life is an impressive 29 hours for audio at 128 kbps and 9 hours for video at 384 kbps. With all these features buyers are sure to have a hard time deciding on which player to buy and which to dump.
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I am 39 year old technology enthusiast trying to keep myself updated on the latest happenings in this field. I like to keep things simple and everyday I learn something new to share with the world!