Sony NWZE464R.CEW Series 8GB Walkman - Red

Sony, have indeed done it again, it's truly a stunning bit of kit.
Just to quickly address one point the previous reviewer made about
it turning on in his pocket. He can't have used the function lock
slider. There's a little slider on the side of the unit that when
moved to the lock position means the unit can't be accidently activated.
It disables all the buttons for that reason.
Re: Sound quality; I can honestly say that I have never heard from
any other audio source a better sound. I have to say though, this I
put down to the headphones. They are incredible! The sound through them
regardless of what you plug them in to is the best I've ever heard and
way better than my "expensive" ones that cost me more than £30.
But by far the best feature of this unit and the reason I bought it is
it's amazing battery life. Due to ongoing health problems, I'm going to
be in hospital sometime in the not too distant future and due to a love
of audiobooks, I needed a player that could go through the night, as
my sleep is disturbed. Not only can this player go through the night,
the spec' says it can go for up to 50 hours. Well I've left it playing and
got slightly over that in hours of constant playback. This was the reason
I bought the unit and I've not been dissapointed. Divide 50 hours playback
by how long you listen to your player per day and you'll be shocked how
infrequently you'll have to charge it and how happy you'll be when you
go to listen to it and think "Oh $%!£ I forgot to charge the player" only
to find it charged and working. That was the important thing for me.

I will honestly and happily reccomend this unit if you want long bat life and amazing sound!

I chose this Mp3 after much thought to replace my Samsung series 3 which i have owned for 3 years now. The samsung still looks as good as products today and could easily be mistaken as being newer than this Sony one. I chose this particular Mp3 in red as i've often found red electronics quite smart, you really have to see the Mp3 in person to get the smartness of the colour. I also chose this Mp3 over others because it wasn't a touch device. I don't have a problem with touch but grew tired of pressing the wrong button on my Samsung when walking while playing.

This particular Mp3 has both strong and weak points which i hope to describe in this review.

When you open the box you will of course see the Mp3, plug type ear phones which are surprisingly very comfortable, they also come with 3 different fittings to suit your ears, plus a quick guide and USB cable.

When turning on the Mp3 you are greeted with a colourful menu with various options to what you want to do such as FM radio, photo viewer, music player, voice record, settings etc. On first looks, it's very easy to navigate.

Transferring music is relatively easy, i was able to transfer my 800+ songs from my old mp3 by just copying and pasting. However, 5 of these songs did not copy and an error popped up. The only way to get these songs onto the mp3 was syncing them with Windows Media player. Not a problem but if you have songs that refuse to go onto it, this could be a sure way of getting them on.

I was somewhat surprised that the Mp3 whilst claiming to be 8gb uses very nearly 1.5gb for the system. This is a huge amount, my old samsung only used about 300mb so i am quite disappointed by this mass useage.

Music quality is top stuff with the ear phones which seem quite reasonable, they are obviously not the best you can get but for me the bass is deep and the music very crisp. As i said earlier these ear phones are quite comfortable, i have tried plug type ear phones before and i couldn't get on with them, but these are far better. I do have to comment on the overall volume of the player, it's probably loud enough for most people, specially with the bass but i can't help but want it a little louder, my previous Mp3 seems to be.

I do however have a couple more negatives for this product, one of which has already been mentioned. The power button doesn't actually turn the player off, it only puts it to standby, meaning when any other button is pressed the Mp3 will come on, and believe me, it is very easy to do. It does this even on hold mode and i'm not exactly sure if the player turns itself onto stand by if left, i can only assume it had as the battery life stayed the same. Unless the player hasn't been used for a long time, then it will actually go off completely. The screen seems to go off after 10-15 seconds but how much battery life is wasted on constant standby? A switch on the side would have been far more useful so there is no risk of it turning on in your pocket. My second negative is the fact a pixel has gone on my screen, it's not massively noticeable but can be in darker conditions. New product with a dead pixel... not exactly what i would expect, specially from a Sony.

I don't want to end this Mp3 review on a downer though, it really does offer good quality sound with a simple layout to access your music, pictures & videos, with the advantage of searching for songs, albums or artists by alphabet rather than scrolling through hundreds just to get to the one you want, it's extremely close to being a perfect product and would be had it not been for the minor issues i've had. The tough question for the future is do i go for Samsung or Sony for my next one!

When I wanted a new Mp3 player I looked for several things. Quality, Sound, one that plays Mp4's as well as Mp3's, Radio, Easy to use, Easy to load and being female I wanted it to look amazing too! This player ticks all the boxes, I love red electronic things but funnily enough I decided to have the blue one as it is such a gorgeous colour - and I am very happy I made that choice. The sound is good quality, no problem with the volume at all (other reviews have stated a problem with the volume being too low). In fact I never have it on full volume -it would blast me out! I would have loved to have given it 5 stars - but I do have a couple of problems with it - 1) Although it is meant to play Mp4's - it is NOT that easy! I loaded an Mp4 on it - it said it didn't support that format. I then did a little research and found that many other people have found this same problem with this player. Apparantly, there are many Mp4 formats - and I have yet to find the one that this player plays. I was disapointed to find there is no helpful advice on Sony support website. 2) The built in radio is next to useless - it will not tune in properly. So sadly Sony you do not get 5 stars for this product, but I wish you would give some advice to put things right as I am disapointed in these areas of the product. As it stands I would only be able to recommend this player to someone who wants to only play Mp3's on it - for this it is great.