Sony Walkman X Series 32 GB Video MP3 Player w/ OLED Display
- 32 GB capacity for about 8000 songs
- 33 hours of audio or 9 hours of video on a single charge
- 3-inch, 262,144-color OLED touchscreen display with 432 x 240 WQVGA pixel resolution
- Supports MP3, WMA, AAC and L-PCM audio formats; AVC(H.264/AVC), MPEG-4, and WMV DRM video formats; JPEG image files
- One-year limited warranty
Amazon.com Product Description
By marrying technology and portability, the new 32 GB Sony X series video Walkman player delivers a superb, on-the-go experience. With a 3-inch OLED display, digital noise cancelation, wireless connectivity, and a touch screen, all in a slim, sleek design, the X series takes portability to the next level. A perfect marriage of technology and portability. Click to enlarge. Watch video in landscape view. Click to enlarge. Enjoy both touch panel and button operation. Click to enlarge. Ultra-portable at less than 1/2 an inch thick. Click to enlarge. Sound Quality
Enjoy ideal sound with digital clear audio technologies, S-Master digital amplifier, and a digital noise canceling function with Noise Canceling EX headphones (MDR-NC20). Discover Music
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Sony Walkman X Series 32 GB Video MP3 Player w/ OLED Display
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5 comments
Frank - NJ on January 31, 2010 at 2:16 am
So, I bought a Walkman a year ago, figuring that Sony would of course make accessories (clock radios, etc) for their own products. Wow! Imagine my surprise when I found out they only make iPOD accessories. Even though I love how the walkman works, WHY would you ever buy one, if you can’t get accessories! What an incredibility STUPID company. I wrote an email to them an got no response. So, I will never again buy another Sony product.
Stay away from Sony products, they’ll leave you in the cold!
Aaron Friedman on January 31, 2010 at 4:45 am
I buy portable players for sound quality first. If you use good headphones this player sound quality is NOT good at all. I have no idea how some think this player sounds good. They perhaps were so impressed by the functionality (which is excellent) and/or use low quality files and poor earphones. Also this player is noisy.
I have used many portable players. The old Creative Zen and Zen vision M are the 2 best for sound quality. The classic Ipod is noisy but has good frequency extension. The Zune is not as noisy but just does not have as rich or frequency extension on the top end.
M. Atkinson on January 31, 2010 at 7:30 am
IT SOUNDS AWESOME! But that’s the only good thing about it. The supposed OLED screen isn’t that bright, and compared to the ipod touch 2G, it looks the same! It’s web browser isn’t bad. . . IT’S HORRID! It is reminiscent of web browsers on you cell phone. It has a cell phone like keypad that you use to type in the website. IT TOOK ME 20 MINUTES TO TYPE IN THE WEBSITE! I kept hitting the wrong keys, and then the Walkman assumes the letter you want to hit and places it like a T-mobile cell phone would. And it doesn’t present the website like it should look, it just shows it’s contents. It is smaller than I expected, and watching a video with it is sad compare to an ipod touch, which has a bigger screen. If you are just looking for a great mp3/4 player and don’t care about web browsing or wi-fi internet, then this is 5 stars! Otherwise, I would stick with the iPod Touch.
Chris24 on January 31, 2010 at 9:31 am
I could never have imagined how BAD this product could be. I read reviews, but I suspect other reviewers were just downloading music and videos and playing them back. Trying to use the versatile features advertised for this product leads to total disappointment.
As a Slacker device, it SUCKS! THREE stations only? Holy stars, my low-end portable Slacker device, the one that’s full of bugs, carries 15 stations. Better still it works as long as I avoid using certain features, and it maintains its Wi-Fi connection. Read on.
This Sony device cannot seem to hold a Wi-Fi connection. As such, it can never download my three Slacker stations anyway.
The web browser is even worse. My cell phone is better, and my cell phone sucks.
Text entry on this device is cumbersome and slow. Again, my low-end cell phone is better.
I am not normally negative about things, but I find myself unable to give this product the totally scathing review it deserves. Don’t waste your money. Even an iPod touch, with all its silly restrictions, is better than this. If you want something much much better, get any $9.95 MP3 player that syncs with Windows Media Player. The very worst of all the players I have is better than this one.
I should have been suspicious when I couldn’t find this product in any local stores. Why wouldn’t they carry it if it were as good as advertised? The answer to the question makes me feel like a fool for having bought it. I’m guessing anyone in the electronics area at Best Buy could have warned me about it.
I have no idea whether Amazon is going to give me my money back. After all, the product is opened. Nevertheless, I am going to return it to them. I wasted money. Why should I add to that insult a waste of perfectly good shelf space in one of my closets?
David Chatenay on January 31, 2010 at 11:37 am
Let’s get the good out of the way first: the sound quality is indeed impressive, the screen is gorgeous, the touchscreen is very smooth. WiFi, Rhapsody, YouTube, battery life, build quality, sturdiness: all good.
Now for the bad, first on the software side:
-for a player that boasts such an excellent sound quality, the lossless codec support is very poor: only WAV is supported, but the files are huge. Where is the FLAC or Apple lossless support? These formats are extremely simple to decode. Right now, I’m re-encoding at 320kbps AAC to save space, but I haven’t found a way to add the artwork back. Fail.
-the podcast application is terrible. [...] website is dreadful, there is no search, it’s far from a complete source of podcasts, there is no support for iTunes-style podcast URLs, and the podcast download fails 90% of the time, unless you keep it “awake” every 30s by taping the screen (and even then…). Epic fail.
-the browser is buggy and slow. Fail.
-Mac support… What can I say… itunesmywalkman is decent but far from a seamless integration into iTunes. Also, eject doesn’t work properly: the player reconnects automatically, forcing you to unplug the player.
-the typing interface is annoying: why can’t we get a complete touchscreen keyboard instead of the T9?
On the hardware side:
-I can’t get a good ear fit with the included earphones. My Etymotic ER6i are way better. The problem is, if you don’t use Sony’s earphones, you can’t use the noise cancellation feature. Fail.
-Bluetooth would have been convenient for file transfer or A2DP, but it’s not there. Fail.
-a proprietary USB cable means one more cable to carry around. To be fair, Apple is as guilty of this as Sony. Still, a micro-USB plug would have been nice.
-the case is ugly: weird dark metallic paint on the back, and funky styrofoam-like grey plastic on the sides: huh?
So overall, it’s a nice effort, but the execution could be better. With a bit more polishing (especially on the software side), this could have been a fantastic player. Of course, Sony could make good and offer a software update that could address a lot of the issues I described, or offer a SDK and let developers come up with better software. But I wouldn’t bet on it…