Ezero, I really agree with you. I'm in the same mood these days about sony... still, I love this compagny. Well, let's just wait and see.
Today, I spent a moment with the A1000 and A3000 at the sony building center of Shibuya. I was sure they would be fully "playable" there.
Sony put a very big poster outside the building:
nice!
Then I could play a while with SONY new toys, but not too much, as they were closing the center (I didn't pay too much attention at the time, it was 7pm...)
First thing, they're really nice in real, far more than in the pics. They were presented on their docking stations.
First shock: I couldn't see very much what was happening on the "screen". I found the contrast very weak. I thought that was beacause of the very strong lights of the show room... maybe. I checked in the options, and it was set at the maximum contrast display. Maybe I missed another option.
The bottons are softer than on the HD5. But not as much as I excpected. I also think that it's not so easy to take it in one hand and use the buttons. I felt like it was about to slip and fall down on the floor all the time. But it was probably because of all the protections against theft, I couldn't hold it naturally.
Then, I played a bit with the navifation menus. I was very happy to see that the exact same options that there is on the HD5 are there (French language also, cool!), and maybe some others.
There's a welcome message when turned of, and then a global menu, like cell phone, with 6 acons displayed (options, play list I think etc.). Very nice. It appeared that there are a lot of new options when playing a title. I did not have time to explore them. And I was very happy to see, that the search navigation had been improved.
There's also an intriguing screen, that tells you all the infos about firmware etc.
The handprints are not so bad, and the sound seems great as usual.
One thing I didn't quite like is the volume button on the upper right edge of the device. It's a good idea to seperate that, but it's not very easy to use.
Well, hope to have more time with it, when it comes out here in Japan. But though all the hype around the Ipod, this A series looks very refreshing to me. The ipod doesn't excite me at all. Same look, same feel for years... But I don't see sony puting a color video enabled walkman in front of its psp, doing pretty well!!!
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Ezero, I really agree with you. I'm in the same mood these days about sony... still, I love this compagny. Well, let's just wait and see.
Today, I spent a moment with the A1000 and A3000 at the sony building center of Shibuya. I was sure they would be fully "playable" there.
Sony put a very big poster outside the building:
nice!
Then I could play a while with SONY new toys, but not too much, as they were closing the center (I didn't pay too much attention at the time, it was 7pm...)
First thing, they're really nice in real, far more than in the pics. They were presented on their docking stations.
First shock: I couldn't see very much what was happening on the "screen". I found the contrast very weak. I thought that was beacause of the very strong lights of the show room... maybe. I checked in the options, and it was set at the maximum contrast display. Maybe I missed another option.
The bottons are softer than on the HD5. But not as much as I excpected. I also think that it's not so easy to take it in one hand and use the buttons. I felt like it was about to slip and fall down on the floor all the time. But it was probably because of all the protections against theft, I couldn't hold it naturally.
Then, I played a bit with the navifation menus. I was very happy to see that the exact same options that there is on the HD5 are there (French language also, cool!), and maybe some others.
There's a welcome message when turned of, and then a global menu, like cell phone, with 6 acons displayed (options, play list I think etc.). Very nice. It appeared that there are a lot of new options when playing a title. I did not have time to explore them. And I was very happy to see, that the search navigation had been improved.
There's also an intriguing screen, that tells you all the infos about firmware etc.
The handprints are not so bad, and the sound seems great as usual.
One thing I didn't quite like is the volume button on the upper right edge of the device. It's a good idea to seperate that, but it's not very easy to use.
Well, hope to have more time with it, when it comes out here in Japan. But though all the hype around the Ipod, this A series looks very refreshing to me. The ipod doesn't excite me at all. Same look, same feel for years... But I don't see sony puting a color video enabled walkman in front of its psp, doing pretty well!!!
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