If you want to stumble through the Babelfish translation, AV Watch Japan has a review of the Sony VAIO Pocket, the hard disk-based music player that’s getting the most buzz as Sony’s attempt to create an iPod-killer. Among other things, they compare sizes (!), and really that battery nodule on the back of the VAIO Pocket does it a disservice in pictures — it’s not nearly as big as it seems. Of course, the chink in the VAIO Pocket’s armor is its inability to play any format but Sony’s proprietary ATRAC3, meaning every song you want to copy to the VAIO Pocket has to be converted. 20GB of conversion is going to be sucky, but manageable; it’s really just the principle of the thing (even Apple, head up their AAC, lets the iPod play MP3).
