Sony VGF-AP1L 40 GB VAIO Pocket Digital Music Player Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought the Sony Vaio Pocket about a month ago.The first thing that I noticed out of the box is that it looks really cool.It's stylish, a little bigger than an ipod, and pretty light.The G-sense touchpad is also really cool.The navigation is a lot easier than the ipod, it takes a while getting used to, but you can do a lot more with it, like make playlists, change the equalizer, and add album covers, without having to switch between menus.The best feature, though, is the fact that it is in color.Listening to music while looking at pictures is fun.You can plug a digital camera right into the music player and transfer photos.And you can use any picture as the cover for any album, which you will see in the "Now Playing" screen.There are some glitches in the player, for example: In the main menu, if you go to "Artists", then choose an artist that has some songs in an album, but isn't the only artist for the album, it will give you all the songs in that album, instead of just the songs with that artist.Another glitch is that the main control panel, wich pops up if you put your finger on one of the g-sense buttons in the right column, sometimes doesn't refresh, so if you press the play button, sometimes it won't change to a stop button, it will just stay a play button.This is no big deal, just take your finger off the button, the control panel will go away, then put your finger back on the button and the play button will have turned into a stop button.
I had no problems with the software that it came with, it is easy to use, Sony Connect is a good music download service, though I don't know how it compares with Itunes.I have read reviews of other sony portable music players that said that transfering to Atrac3 was slow, but it wasn't slow on my computer, so that wasn't a problem.Transfering music to the player is really fast.I like Atrac3, it takes up less space than mp3 and it has the same sound quality.
One more thing that made this player a four star instead of a five is the headphones that it comes with.it is a remote control that plugs into the player, then earbud headphones that plug into the remote control.The place where the two earbuds come together is way off center, so when you are wearing them, the two cords come together at the side of your head.This is a problem with the remote control, because it pulls on one of the earbuds, and it can fall out easily.You have to use the remote control with the earbuds, because without it the earbud headphones are way way way too short.I just got different headphones and use those without the remote control.
Well, there is my review.I suggest that you buy it and just use different headphones, because otherwise it is a really cool digital music player.Go Sony!!!

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2/8/200615-19-32...