Without music...

Without music...

"Without music... life would be a mistake" - Friedrich Nietzche
That's true when local buses, corporate vehicles, home PC's, cars, office comps, cell phones, earphones humming FM91 or any music like a rage now a days !

Lot of guys I know've moved either to DAP or cellphone based gadgets for music thirst. Everyday thousands of DAP*, PMP* & mp3-sticks* are being released worldwide. Though earhpone mp3 music mania is pioneered by Creative, 'The Mac giant' Apple took this into amazing level of music-nirvana with iPod ! Apple made iPod like a cellphone in everyday usage. Till recently, DAPs're constrained to a conventional design with Rio carbon was an exception, though. Rio is out of the market.

Sony recently unveiled new series of mp3 DAPs in Japan.One of the release with A3000 series is packed with a marvelous design, look & feel.Now a days I chant:
[if design] then [sonyNW-A3000]

This is what I call "A Big bro of all DAP " when it comes to aesthetic design .'Gizmo freaks' calls it: 'Man Without A Face' ! Because: The organic EL display blends seamlessly into the body of the player. There's no extra screen or space for media info display. Whole body acts as a display screen. No wonder. The moment I saw it I am in Fida with this cute gizmo from Sony. It's an amazing gizmo still reigning in Japanese market, & recently doing rounds in global arena.By reviews and forums, I fathom it's a pure deviation design contrast to conventional DAP designs ! The display blends smoothly into the body of the player. Ooof this is what drives me crazy. It reminds me of 'Casio time watch' which made a numerical display on surface of the glass !

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specs of 'A3000 'player:
One of the new functions is called Artist Link, which finds similar artists to the one you are currently listening to with one click. They’ve also customized the shuffle-terminology: By selecting ‘My Favourite Shuffle’, the device automatically selects the most listened to 100 songs and plays them at random. The ‘Time Machine Shuffle’ function randomly selects a year and plays all of the songs from that particular year that are currently held on the device.screen of the A3000 will be packin’ is a 2-inch OLED display.Accessories include remote control, docking station and docking system for external speakers.

NW-A3000
# 20 GB capacity
# 2-inch screen
# Violet and silver skins
# Around $320
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Factually, it's a surviving act for Sony in DAP market though they're the masters in PSP segment. Because of proprietary formats and mono marketing Sony lag behind other fast moving brands like Apple, Creative, iRiver & hundreds of DAP's being released in Korea & Japan everyday. Still 80% of the market is ruled by Apple with their iPod series. Apple released much talked about model iPod Nano a week back. Strategic brand marketing is the key behind the popularity of iPod. Even with all these hypo surrounding 'iPod' my choice was 'iRiver H10'. What mattered was sound & clarity, where in iPod lacks heavily. I could call it a nomenclature of my gizmo choices:No to monopoly ! Even after years of cellphone swapping, somehow I could n't go for Nokia. I prefer standing besides next best monopolistic brand like sony Ericsson ;)
I'm Sure these gizmo beauties would take lot of time to get into Indian market floors.Anyways,curious to know the performance & Battery poll of this sony stuff..
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*DAP(Digital Audio Players:Plays mp3,wav.Ogg and other music formats)
*PMP(Personal media players: Able to play video+music)
*mp3-sticks(USB compatible mini mp3 sticks)