Buyer's Guide - part II - Walkman Music Player - First Impressions

I have seen many models with ......
I have seen many models with dual speakers before, but this is the first one having real STEREO speakers. You can place it on its side and listen like a pocket radio. The sound quality is superb. The sound is kinda bassy compared to other walkman models. The headset I got is hpm-62 which also is excellent. FM radio reception and quality is very good. FM through stereo speakers is good.



There are many preset equalisers including bass++ and treble++. ('Rock' is ma fav.) Manual equaliser setting and Stereo widening are also there.


Walkman player and FM radio play minimised. There is a dedicated W -key on the front bottom left.The walkman interface is impressive. Three skins available- orange, normal, white. Album art can be displayed. The player screen has a W logo, play/pause/stopped status, current track number/total tracks in the list, equaliser graph, album art, progress bar, track length/played length, track/artist/album info, and the player controls scheme.


Before uploading songs, if you spare a few minutes editing the track info with windows music player's music library, You can very well organise your music using the walkman's tree like organiser- Album, Artist, track and playlists. In WMP, you can even edit the Album Art with your own pictures.


The W symbol at the front bottom will glow only when you turn on the walkman. And if light effects are on, this logo and the navigation pad orange ring starts blinking.






CONS;-


It doesn't support wmv. And it is heard that some particular formats of mp3 also not supported. Anyway, all the 350 mp3 tracks in my 4GB Sandisk m2 card are supported.






Caution:


While adding a track to play list, always select from the Album/tracks of walkman player itself- select a track>options>add to playlist. Never go to the music folder and add!!! (It is the one area where all SE phones hang and this one being a bit more lazy, it may hang for its life making you crazy!!) Also never practise opening music folder to listen to music. It is too slow and you wont get the benefits of equaliser and sound effects. Organise your music and select tracks from the walkman player. It is fast.