Gizmo Girl has a healthy review of Sony’s relatively new NW-HD3 MP3 Player. (And it plays real MP3, instead of “converts to our proprietary format while you wai MP3”, which had been the case with all of Sony’s previous “MP3” players.) Sony kindly calls it a “Network Walkman”, but don’t let those words invoke in you dreams of sugarplum IP fairies, streaming audio from one device to another, with rainbow wireless interfaces and candy packets of audio sharing. No, the NW wraps your MP3s so that effectively once they check in to your device, they don’t check out. Still, sans file-conversion, the transfer process isn’t quite as awful as their earlier players. And it comes in pretty (and familiar) colors. Battery life is apparently quite stellar, and its small stature but high capacity has them swooning.
Gizmo Girl Review [Pocket-Lint]
