Spectacular

9

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iPod Killer? No - Sony gets screwed again

Feb 17, 2008

Rating: 9 out of 10 (Spectacular)
Pros: Sound, noise-cancelling, battery life, COOLness
Cons: Might not be free from glitches or as reliable as the iPod
Opinion:
The 706F is not officially available in the US - they only have the 703, which is a 2 gig. I forget now, but I think I paid just a little over 100 USD for it. PRO's are: noise canceling (need experimenting...), radio (Yay, NPR!), superior sound quality and battery life, and very efficient use of memory: regardless of source, it uses the ATRAC system uses 66 Kbps, half the low end of most iPod usage. In other words, your 4 Gig works like an 8. I have no problem with the Sonic Stage system once I got to learn it - just getting used to, rather than some kind of fundamental design flaw. CON's? I DID experience some glitches with it. A while back, the unit seemed to have been on permanent "hold", meaning nothing, incld. the volume control, worked. It just played merrily on, without my ability to select the album I want, go to FM radio, change ... Read more

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