Sad thing about it Sony are more than capable of producing the perfect Walkman if they wanted, they get so many things right and then spoil it with a inherent list of what I call common sense abandoned on certain things leaving you wandering why?
If Sony took a leaf out of company's like Cowon when it come to firstly.... having better battery stamina, currently Sony are going backwards with the battery life of their Walkmans regardless of what technology they have put inside they should of done more R&D into making a battery that would be an acceptable standard by today's bar. Nut shell this new Z Series should of been able cope with 30hrs music playback at least.
Sony have not remembered to put hard tactile buttons on top of the Z player as with the X series Walkman, that alone is one of those essential features that every touch screen dap should have imo, comes in bloody handy when in pocket, especially if for example on subway and I do not want to have to get the flashy Walkman out to show that bad posse eyeing up their next victim who will then want to come and knock my teeth out for it!
Would be great if we had the in-line remote's back on the Sony Walkmans as well which would be welcomed to no end.
Surely micro sd card slots have got to be the norm with today's music players, especially when the company's are dragging their heels now in bringing out bigger internal flash memory.
Sony to start bringing out models with with at least 32b and dump the 8 & 16gb models, it's unnecessary in today's hungry on the go media library's if you use high quality codecs for music, video and the now added benefit of app's taking up room on the memory.
Even though It does not affect me directly as I only use WAV files now days it seems FLAC is one of those features which would sway a lot of people like a bee to honey if Sony incorporated this.
Would be nice to see Sony make the Z in the next screen size down approx 3.7 as the 4,3 screen is a tad to large for true mobility as a pocket music player especially when most of us now have a 3.7, 4.3 smart phone stuffed in the other pocket . I personally liked the X series size screen as I only wanted it for the music and not video so was just right size for a true Walkman but yet having the touch screen ability.
I know apparently now there are app's for the following if using android dap's but would be nice if Sony could just take 10 minutes out of their lunch hour to program on the go playlist's into the their own UI itself just like the Sony HDD players of yesteryear.
If Sony can add these features rolled into the current Z Walkman whilst keeping the price around £300 at most for the 64gb I personally would have a perfect Walkman that I would cuddle up to every night when I went to sleep!
