Sony NW-HD1 Reviews & Tests

Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for Sony NW-HD1

alaTest has collected and analyzed 118 user reviews of Sony NW-HD1 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.3/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.8/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. People are impressed by the portability and sound. The performance and design also get good reviews. Many are less positive about the storage and memory.

usability, design, performance, sound, portability

reliability, price, memory, storage

62% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Dec, 2024

Expert review by : Alex Leopold (dapreview.net)

Sony takes on the iPod

Overview The NW-HD1 represents Sony's first foray into the hard drive audio player market. It is essentially the only other 20 gigabyte player to receive any major advertising other than the Apple iPod which is easily its biggest competitor. As of this mo

The NW-HD3 is the NW-HD1's updated sibling which does support Mp3 files natively; however, it is thicker and has slightly cheaper build materials. A big plus for the NW-HD3 is that its screen is a more pleasant blue hue which is easier to read than the...

Feb, 2005

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Consumer review (avreview.co.uk)

Excellence at a price

This is Sony's equivalent to the Ipod, and in many ways it is better (e.g. battery life/size/sound quality). Sony's 'Sonic Stage' software is easy to use and the player itself is excellently designed. Unfortunately it doesn't offer mp3 playback which...

Extremely small, robust & beautifully designed, good battery life, huge storage capacity, ATRAC better quality than mp3.

No MP3 playback - yet (have to convert existing mp3s to Sony's own ATRAC format), a bit pricey, rubbish headphones, no remote!

Dec, 2004

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