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Startled at all the good reviews.
I am truely shocked at the good reviews for this product. The things that are good are that it is a good petit size, excellent for someone like me who does not wanna hawl a bunch of cds around and a bulky cd player especially if you are gonna go to the gym and work out or what have you. In its most compact format it holds about 50 songs depending on the lengths of songs and using its smallest format. Othen than that everything else sucks. The battery is a piece of crap. It is a unique size which is not available in stores, so once it goes no matter what you are doing you cannot replace it with another, you have to wait until you get home to recharge it again. Since I had it I have returned to to Sony 2 times mostly casue the battery does not work right. It clearly says in the book to charge it 7 hours which i do and after a while it starts to decrease in energy. It has been a bad experience sending out the product to sony and waiting for them to return it and what have you. It has an indicator to tell you the life of the battery, mine always is blinking meaning it is low even though i just charged it. ALso it NEVER indicates the battery is full and if it does it last one song. I mean I spend 300 bucks i expect a product that works right. Not this crap. I mean i am always having issues with the battery BOTH the ones i have. Casue i bought an extra one on the side per Sonys request.... whatever. If you wanna hear the first song it is ok, but lets say you wanna hear song number 49 on your player well as you search through all the songs clicking to number 49 there goes the battery and shuts off. It is rediculous at least if you could pop a double a battery in there it wold be ok but you can not do that. So trust me the size is great but not practical, especially for this money.

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A bit fragile for everyday use, joggers/gymers should pass.
Well I want to say Sony has some good points for this device and then Sony has some action items they need to work on. First off price is a concern (I think Sony is asking too much) for me becasue MP3s and multi format devices can be really cheap, so why would Sony charge more? Is it worth it? Well I suppose all the features, support, and life of the device would tell you that. JOGGERS/GYM/ACTIVE ONES - I found this device to have a below average build and durability. The reason I say this is because I take pretty good care not to be too hard, but you know you have to recharge the battery and swap cards. Well the battery door plastic clasp broke which holds the battery in the device. This happend 3 months out of warranty, Sony wanted $59.95 for repair (not with parts). So you could maybe buy another player for that cost. Mind you I was not throwing this around, dropping it, I was pretty careful, so this just came from everyday wear and tear. I use tape now to keep the battery door closed which doesn't always work and makes the player stop working. Yes I admit you see Sony and think OH I feel safe with their quality, support, etc. but I shall warn you that this device is not very durable. Yes you are getting a slew of features and formats, but be sure you realize you need to factor you are risking this breaking after a few months use I would say.

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Same problems
I love Sony..I even loved this Sony,,,unfortunately all the stories are true. I only gave it one star beacuse it is small and fairly well designed. For $270.00 you should get something more than software hassles because of all this protection b/s, something that works with ME when it is advertsied to work with ME, and a battery and charger that actaully works. The hassles with the software and the battery are all true. This is a lot of money, I am shocked Sony just basically leaves it to the user to resolve or live with the problems. ["buy an extra battery"..after waiting on hold for an hour...'cause mine doesn't work correctly????..what a load of baloney!!!!!!]. Here is the topper..buy a song off Real's site after downloading Real which supports this unit because Sony's software is so bad it never works correctly and has little functionality [same Sony camera-same problem...hmmmmm]then find out that the format they sell you the song in is not supported by the player in spite of the fact that they support this specific player with their software....the double helix ram balonay format is not supported by the player. The inconsideration and lack of customer comittment is unblievable to me. I am done with Sony [Get a Canon or Nikon camera and an Ipod...and I am done with Real]