Seriously... whats with the crap headphones? My gf (against all my pleas) bought the touch... the headphones were so bad, we thought we bought a lame one. Brought it back and the next set of phones sucked just as much. We plugged in a set of Sony headphones we've had here for years and years, at least 5 years old, maybe more, and the sound difference was amazing. She was so pissed off that Apple would have the nerve to send out -worse than dollar store- headphones with their equipment, she brought it back, thankfully.
Why do the headphones suck so bad? They sucked 8+ years ago when they started to make portable music players, and still suck now. With all the bitching seen here on Engadget why havent all you fanbois gathered and done anything about this? And dont say it's cause you all buy aftermarkets afterwards... Cause I see you with your tell-tale, I-have-an-apple, white headphones all the time.
An audiophile who values the quality of his/her music over anything else.
I have the Touch and have also owned other players. The Touch has large screen space for video playback, web viewing and apps. But other players have better sound quality for music and Sony is one of the best. If I hadn't started watching lots of videos on the go, I would have stayed with Sony. The current players have too small a screen for me.
But if music is your main focus, the Touch really isn't the player for you. The Touch is a jack of all trades, but excels mainly in video and web viewing IMO.
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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Seriously,,, who would buy this over iPod touch?????
Someone who wants better sound quality, a better screen and a better battery life maybe?
On a sidenote: What? No wav support? :(
OLED, noise-canceling headphones standard, drag-and-drop support, built-in FM, and not looking like another tool with an iPod.
The most important thing in MP3 player is the sound quality, and sony Walkman's have way better sound quality then i pod's
example :
look at the sound quality rating
Sony Walkman NWZ-S639F: Sound quality: 9/10
http://www.trustedreviews.com/mp3/review/2008/11/09/Sony-Walkman-NWZ-S639F-16GB/p1
Apple iPod nano: Sound quality: 7/10
http://www.trustedreviews.com/mp3/review/2008/10/05/Apple-iPod-nano-8GB-4th-Gen/p1
Seriously... whats with the crap headphones? My gf (against all my pleas) bought the touch... the headphones were so bad, we thought we bought a lame one. Brought it back and the next set of phones sucked just as much. We plugged in a set of Sony headphones we've had here for years and years, at least 5 years old, maybe more, and the sound difference was amazing. She was so pissed off that Apple would have the nerve to send out -worse than dollar store- headphones with their equipment, she brought it back, thankfully.
Why do the headphones suck so bad? They sucked 8+ years ago when they started to make portable music players, and still suck now.
With all the bitching seen here on Engadget why havent all you fanbois gathered and done anything about this? And dont say it's cause you all buy aftermarkets afterwards... Cause I see you with your tell-tale, I-have-an-apple, white headphones all the time.
An audiophile who values the quality of his/her music over anything else.
I have the Touch and have also owned other players. The Touch has large screen space for video playback, web viewing and apps. But other players have better sound quality for music and Sony is one of the best. If I hadn't started watching lots of videos on the go, I would have stayed with Sony. The current players have too small a screen for me.
But if music is your main focus, the Touch really isn't the player for you. The Touch is a jack of all trades, but excels mainly in video and web viewing IMO.