We got to spend a few brief moments with
Sony's new NWZ-S610 and we sort of liked what we saw. While there's nothing really standout about the interface, design or feature set of the players, the mere fact that these represent Sony's long-overdue entry into traditional format support and the death of ATRAC has admittedly biased us toward the diminutive players. The interface is simple enough, certainly nothing flashy, and not at all a departure from current Sony players. At least it's responsive, both in loading movies and browsing through music, so that's always a plus. Just for kicks Sony added in a "time machine shuffle" feature that zooms through the years to select random songs from a certain era. Video playback was smooth, and while the screen isn't the brightest we've seen, it'll certainly get the job done. Overall the player feels nice in the hand, but in a world of ever decreasing millimeters of thickness, the DAP looks downright chunky. Check out all the angles of both players -- the photo version features the silver face, the video edition features black -- in the gallery below.
posted August 30th 2007 8:35AM
I don't think it looks that chunky at all. It looks more "sturdy".
Chunky?
It really throws me how people today seem to think that we need to rush to see how quickly we can make a player as thin as a piece of paper.
Seriously, how F'ing small do you really need these things?
Remember that time Bill Bratzke crushed three phones at once with his giant hand? To Billlll Braaatzke.
I wonder if you guys would "sort of like" the new Nano if it was half as good as this or would you, as i expect, go into meltdown and declare it the finest mp3 player ever made?
Maybe we would "sort of like" the new nano... if it was good, period. Don't "sort of give" props to the Nano for things it aint GOT!
Now lets stay on topic with the Sony NWZ-S610.
:D
Cute, and I am glad that it dosen't sport an iPodish look!
Does this MP3 player make me look fat?
those DAPs are mighty strange!!!!
Makes the Zune look good!
Hahahahah! Chunky? How small do you want these things. Everything not apple once again gets the negative treatment. pfttt!
I love this design. My only concern is the button presses making white text on the pressy areas fade out over time (sounds likely from the pics).
Otherwise, nice. It will probably be 2030 until Sony adopt FLAC and Ogg Vorbis, so no point holding my breath there. I wonder how they sound.
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