Sony's flash-based music player is a thing of beauty
Category: Tech...
Posted Friday, June 10, 2005 at 09:50 PM [GMT-6]

I'm an unabashed iPod fan, but not so much that I can't appreciate a worthy competitor...and Sony has [finally!] brought such a product to the market in the form of the unimaginatively-named NW-E507, a 1-gigabyte flash music player packaged in a gorgeous mirrored skin overlaying a too-cool OLED display.

Sony still can't provide software in the same league as iTunes, and it definitely needs some help with its product naming, but this beautifully designed player should serve notice to Apple not to rest on its laurels.

Tip o'the earbuds to Isaac Schrödinger

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Beautiful design! Gizmodo's calling it a "shuffle-killer." I like the rechargable battery. I have 2 mp3 players that use a lot of Duracells.

Posted by: denise at June 11, 2005 12:17 AM

That is a sleek lookin' piece o'tech.

Posted by: Jim at June 11, 2005 07:00 AM

Gizmodo's calling it a "shuffle-killer."

I don't know about that. It's more expensive, but apart from that, it doesn't have what is arguably the real strength of all of the 'pods: iTunes and the iTunes Music Store. Anybody can make the hardware...it's the integrated software that bestows true elegance.

Nonetheless, it is definitely a thing of beauty.

Posted by: Eric at June 11, 2005 08:46 PM
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