Sony Walkman NW-A3000 20GB MP3 Player Reviews
50 Real Customer Reviews - In Summary
+ This MP3 player has no outstanding positive points. - It scores very poorly on portability.
“Looks,memory size, battery life, sound quality”
Geoffrey, Stonehaven
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Geoffrey, Stonehaven
Score 10.0/10+ Looks,memory size, battery life, sound quality
- Software is hard to load. Connect software almost impossable in fact I had to remove it from my PC and use Sonic sound instead
purchased 19 Jan 2006
Andy, Sandhurst
Score 9.0/10+ Looks and feels fantastic. Huge storage capacity with battery life to match. Easy to use and intuative menus. Packed with clever and innovative features - intelligent shuffle, artist link etc.
- The software. The 'Connect Player' software is used to load tracks from your PC onto the NWA3000V. It formats the songs and adds data thats needed for features such as intelligent shuffle and artist link. Heard horror stories before buying but went ahead anyway. At first it seemed to run ok, if painfully slowly. It was also prone to 'hanging' but I could just about live with that. Now it doesn't work at all and if I try to run it my PC crashes! I've followed all the advice on the Sony website - updating and re installing the software - but to no avail. I've been forced to use an older, tried and tested bit of software (Sonic Stage) to get music on my player, but of course this doesn't provide the functioality that 'Connect' should.
purchased 14 Jan 2006
Kwesi, Paddock Wood
Score 10.0/10+ Functions as well as it unique design. Variety in colours makes it ideal for peoples choice. Seperate mains battery charger in addition to USB combination charger/computer link adds freedom.
- Reviewer left no comment
purchased 13 Dec 2005
Coral, Swansea
Score 10.0/10+ Very Easy to use - i bought it for my partner as xmas pressie and he's very technophobic - he can use it very easily. The sound quality is fantastic. Playing time/battery hours great - i could go on and on!! Thanks
- A bit on the heavy side but i suppose it adds to the knowledge that it is a quality item
purchased 16 Dec 2005
Michelle, Liverpool
Score 9.0/10+ Battery life is very good as is the styling
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the software is terrible, takes a lot of time to work out what makes it crash/remove your enitre library.
I'd advise not using it to rip CD's and to just import mp3s from your hard drive
purchased 15 Jan 2006
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 8.0/10+ design
- takes long time to load songs onto due to software problems
purchased 13 Dec 2005
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 10.0/10+ battery life, a bit different to the i-pod as everybody has one
- nothing realy
purchased 12 Dec 2005
Adam, Stoke on Trent
Score 8.0/10+ Design and build still very good today. Love the look and sound. And it has outlasted other mp3 players bought at Xmas by my friends.
- Software is still not up to scratch, and the player is slower to use in general (load times etc). Playlists etc are difficult to use.
purchased 15 Dec 2005
Josh, nottingham
Score 2.0/10+ This player has a stylish design that appeals to the masses, combined with high sound quality, and excellent, supplied, earphones, makes this player look, at first, a brilliant choice.
- The player is unusable!!! The software does not work. When i bought the player i read many reviews like this and presumed it must be the individuals computers which wern't set up correctly, however, unforunately my trust in sony was misfounded. Testimony to this is on sonys' website, where they have actually put up the old version of the software for download, sonic stage (which is aweful may i add), due to the sheer amount of people unable to use the connect software.
purchased 02 Jan 2006
Paul, Gloucester
Score 8.0/10+ Looks good, stylish.
- Software could be better. Not as user friendly as iTunes. Maximum volume was very poor until I found a way to alter this on the internet. Difficult to see the screen in bright daylight.
purchased 24 Jan 2006
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 9.0/10+ very easy to use, great product
- software not has a fault in it, thus losing over a 1000 song
purchased 16 Jan 2006
Sonny, Liverpool
Score 10.0/10+ Everything but the software
- The connect software. It's appalling
purchased 26 Jan 2006
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 7.0/10+ product is excellent and has great sound quality
- software is slow and painfully difficult to use you also have to transfer all your music to another format to put it onto the mp3 player which takes a very very long time.
purchased 30 Dec 2005
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 1.0/10+ Reviewer left no comment
- software
purchased 02 Jan 2006
Anonymous verified purchaser
Score 9.0/10
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very easy to use. stylish very unique.
good product
- sounds needs to be louder.
purchased 22 Mar 2006
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Expert reviews for Sony Walkman NW-A3000 20GB
PC Advisor expert review
It'd be a slight overstatement to say there was a round of applause when we heard that Sony was going to break the habit of a lifetime and start selling music players that were capable of playing MP3s. But it was certainly greeted as a welcome volte-face.
This Sony Walkman NW-A3000 20GB review continued on PC Advisor
reviewed 22 Feb 2006
Product Features
Hard Disk Capacity in GB
 
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20 |
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MP4 Playback
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No |
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Built-In Radio
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No |
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Colour
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Multi |
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Touchscreen
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No |
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Music Playtime (hours)
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35 |
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Screen Size in Inches
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2 |
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Weight (g)
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182 |
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Colour Screen
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No |
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Photo Viewer
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No |
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USB Port
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Yes |
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Built-In Microphone
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No |
| Memory Type | Hard Disc Drive |
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WMA Playback
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Yes |
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WAV Playback
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Yes |
| OGG Playback | No |
| AAC Playback | No |
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DivX Playback
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No |
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Dimensions (mm)
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65x104x21 |
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Release Date
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1 Nov 2005 |
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Bluetooth
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No |
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Built-in Camera
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No |
| Audio Line-In Interface | No |
| Compact Flash Card | No |
| Memory Stick | No |
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Colour Display
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No |
Also known as: Sony Walkman 20GB
MP3 Players Buying GuideManufacturer's Description
Hard Disk WALKMAN with 20 GB capacity, unique design and advanced features
- Beautiful and sexy body weighing just 182 grams, available in various colours
- Long battery life of upto 35 hours, rechargeable via AC adaptor and USB connection
- Unique ‘Artist Link’ feature lets you discover new artists of your favourite genre
- Shuffle the way you like it with the new ‘My Favourite’ and ‘Time Machine’ Shuffle modes
- Easy to find any Artist, Album or Song by using the new ‘Initial Search’ tool
- ATRAC and MP3 compatible
- New and improved application software ‘CONNECT Player’
- Sony’s unique ‘G-sensor’ technology limits the damage risk to the Hard Disk of the device when it’s dropped
- Remote control, Carrying cases, Speakers and Docking station are all seperately available
- *This player is designed to seamlessly work with the Sony Connect Europe Music store only, which will close after March 2008. Use with any source of legitimate download offerings in compatible, non-protected formats (eg. MP3) remains unaffected.
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