Talking about OLED Walkmans in a Sony Ericsson forum is really dangerous. You run a risk of overdoing it.
Basic features like auto rotate between landscape and portrait mode have been removed. There’s no multi-gesture for moving around the menu system. There’s an image gallery but zooming in and out isn’t very intuitive. Moving between songs is relatively easy (see video / image below). There’s a web-browser from Access, and well, YouTube too.
The build quality is top notch, and it really hits the sweet spot between being sturdy and not too heavy. There’s no mistaking that this is a serious piece of kit when picking it up, and even the buttons are rock solid.
The 3-inch OLED display is spacious enough, yet the overall player is plenty small to sneak into tight spaces without causing too much fuss.
Despite appearing somewhat chintzy in the press shots, the look and feel in person really impresses. The texture adds a sense of security / grip when holding it, and it definitely acts as a differentiator from all the other flat-faced PMPs out there.
One can appreciate the standard 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, but Sony connector at the bottom should have been instead a mini-USB connector! One will be forced to carry around a specialized cable
(à la Apple’s dock-connecting iPod) if you plan on charging it or adding / removing files via a computer. The built-in Noise Canceling switch is a welcome extra, though in our testing, we didn’t notice a difference with it on or off.
The volume rocker is perfectly placed atop the right side, and the Play / Pause, Skip Forward and Skip Backwards buttons are thoughtfully placed at the top of the unit, providing easy access when it’s shoved in your pocket. Sony has placed the Hold switch on the rear — rather than the side or top — of its OLED Walkman.
Finally, the single Home button on the bottom of the face makes it dead simple to escape whatever mess you’re in and get back to the front screen.
Boasting a 432 x 240 resolution, which is a few pixels less than on Cowon’s S9 (480 x 272), the panel is nothing short of awe-inspiring. Colors were dramatic, crisp and downright lovely. It really shines when viewing album art, photos and video, though we can’t help but bemoan the fact that Sony has inexplicably crippled the video mode to handle 320 x 240 clips at a maximum in most scenarios. Moving on,swiping the panel to move from album to album was effortless. So yeah, the OLED panel itself definitely lives up to the hype, but unfortunately we’re not so sure a fancy display justifies the steep increase in price versus LCD-based rivals.
UI. Metadata was laid out well, changing artists / albums / tracks was a cinch, and
browsing files was a lesson in simplicity. Loading the player up with media couldn’t have been easier.
Rather than having to deal with proprietary software, users can simply drag and drop files from their PC into the appropriate folder when it mounts in Windows Explorer or on the desktop of a Mac.
Sony’s OLED Walkman is leaps and bound more versatile than the litany of alternatives that lack WiFi, an FM tuner and a web browser (in theory, at least). Truth be told, it handles its core duties with class, playing back movie clips and audio files exactly as
you’d expect a higher-end PMP to do. Navigation is a breeze, the external buttons are excellent additions and the 33 hours (maximum) of battery life should be more than sufficient for most.
Well, that’s it then. Too much of words..
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Two videos that we added. All Thanks to the creators
Sources
Slash Gear and engadget
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