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Hey all, after eagerly awaiting Sony to bring out their next-gen walkman, my interest is already waning. Just wanted to know if any of you guys have decided to buy it or not? and if so what was the deciding factor. For me the trump card of walkman was great build quality, sound and battery. However, it seems that their products have dropped in build quality in the last 3 years, and Cowon players seem to beat walkmans on battery and sound. Am I just grossly misinformed? Anyhow- I think i'm going to go with the cowon d2 4gb flash (SD expandable) - no sonicstage - better battery/sound - more format support - bigger screen

thanks for all the heads up i used my nw-hd3 quite a bit, in the last year just listened to the ricky gervais show. often fell asleep listening, as for flash vs hdd i've heard the flash lifetime is limited to the amount of writes you can make to it, whereas hdd is generally about usuage time. any truth to this?

Hey guys (+gals of course), my faithful nw-hd3 died on me recently after about 2-3 years (though i bought it refurbished). So news of this new flash player is really exciting. My friend however, noted that most of his sony gear seemed to die after 2-3 years (md player and micro system). Just wondering if you guys have had the same experience with past sony products. In general does any company make particularly durable DAPs or do they all conveniently fail after 2-3 years so you have to buy a new one? PS any idea if a new HDD based player will be coming from sony? 8 gigs bit small cheers, yex