Sony Nw-A105 16GB Walkman Hi-Res Portable Digital Music Player with Android 9.0, 3.6" Touch Screen, S-Master Hx, DSEE-Hx, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth and USB Type-C - Black

I have been using Sony walkmans since the A15 2014, the a35 and a45, and now the a105. So far been very impressed, I mainly stream music via Bluetooth, the sound quality when compared to the a45 is a step up , I can notice the difference, the sound seems more detailed and rich. The display and touch screen is very bright, colours seem richer then a45, touch sensitivity is good. I have loaded this with a 128gb sd card, the walkman app is sufficient and works well. The build quality is excellent very sleek design. This player comes with android 9, its fully fledged version allowing you to download apps from the play store. My conclusion is that this offers more then the a45, its adds a few extras, like vinyl procceessor, but more importantly its give you android OS, for me Evan tho I have 70 gb music stored, it's nice to have Spottily, YouTube music, dezzer, and the upcoming amazon HD streaming service available on this device. Overall very Happy, only gripes battery could have been better, to improve this I have switched off WiFi and Bluetooth and activated battery care. Forgot to mention this is charged with USB C making life lot easier compared to the A45 specific cable. Update 16/8/2020 Having had this since January 2020 ,the A105 has improved in certain areas , the most likely and important area is battery life, with recent firmware updates this has allowed extra hours of playback , a auto device switch off is now implemented, when unit is not used . I found by switching WiFi of this also extends battery life, i mainly use this as a Bluetooth streamer and battery life has improved. The problem is this device is not perfect but by god you will not get a Hi Res audio player with the quality like this, if you use LDAC then you cannot beat the audio quality the A105 produces ,its so crisp. I use this as my main daily music player ,from streaming to headphones i am more then happy . This is quality not quantity ,but not perfect its sits in between.

The sound quality is pretty good, but there is no way that I can see for keeping the volume stored to a certain limit. Every time I power off the device and switch it on again later, it defaults to a lower setting and you keep having to increase the volume. For people who are blind, there is a built-in screen reader on android called Talkback. I was able to activate this out of the box by pressing and holding the two volume buttons on the side for three seconds when powered on. The talkback screen reader makes things extremely accessible to people like myself which I really do appreciate and does work well on this player. Once it was activated I was able to set up the device no problem. You can also customise settings for contrast and font size for the screen as well. I know android can be a little bit clunky from time to time on devices but I think it is so wonderful that they have tried to be inclusive. One thing I will say though is that it takes about a minute or more for the player to completely start up while it checks things through after you enter your pin to unlock. Not a huge issue for me but for some people this would be pretty annoying. The tiny on-screen Querty keyboard can be very fiddly especially when entering credentials but I got there in the end with perseverance. I’m thinking of removing my Google account after getting all the applications I need as I don’t think it’s essential as I will be only using it for music. The design of the player is very lightweight and sleek and is easy to carry around. I love the tactile side buttons for controlling the transport and volume of the player which makes things really intuitive so that you are not having to unlock the screen when you want to play different tracks. The hold switch on the bottom is also extremely useful as it saves you knocking something off by mistake when using the device. Now for the con aspects. It is advertised as having 16 GB of memory, but as a matter of fact you only get about 4 GB internal memory because a lot of it is taken up with the android software and some apps which some people would not even use because it is a music player. You really need to get an SD card to make full adequate use of this device. I think it takes up to 2 TB but usually 128 GB is enough which I have. You cannot install applications though on the memory card only transfer music. Also be aware that you need to be careful how your files are named because there are certain symbols such as questionmarks then the files will not transfer. This device cannot be used as an external flash hard drive, so in order to transfer music, you have to download software which enables you to connect to the device. On my Mac, I had to download and install the android Google transfer app. This can make things complicated and time consuming for some people. Please note that this player does not come with headphones so you have to purchase your own or use ones that you have lying about The house. I think it would have been better if Sony had either included the accessories at extra cost or certainly had improved the capacity of internal memory Battery life in this device is extremely poor whenever you are connected to Wi-Fi. I have not tried using Bluetooth as yet. Not sure exactly technically of the hours usage but certainly not over 20 hours a day if in constant use. I do not use this device for streaming as I transfer music from my library to it so I found that turning the screen brightness down and putting my player in Airplane Mode The battery life certainly improves and you at least get a full day out of it playing a few albums. My overall opinion is that it is a great little player and despite its many negative points I will not be sending it back. However, on saying this, if you are someone who likes to connect to Wi-Fi a lot when out and about and stream music or download lots of applications then this device is not for you unless you are prepared to get a wireless charger for it or use some sort of power bank when out and about. I will be using mine occasionally for playing music which I have downloaded and transferred when I’m travelling on the train to places. I hope this review will be helpful to people considering buying this device. I have tried to be as absolutely honest as I can. This is after having the player now for almost a week.

I bought these due to being unable to use my phone at work, but I need music to help me concentrate. I was very tempted to go for something cheaper and live with worse quality but I'm glad I did not. Overall the device has good sound quality, especially when paired with decent headphones. Of course it's not audiophile sound quality, rather this is more for convenience, so don't go looking for professional audio quality. A friend of mine has a much older version of the same device, and seeing the quality of life improvements sold me on it immediately. There's things I don't like very much though. Battery life is mediocre. This is due to a combination of a few things, it's very small, Android isn't particularly efficient with battery usage and it's very much dependant on what features you're using. Personally I use wires in ear monitors, no WiFi or Bluetooth and on one charge I can get 6-7.5 hours. However I have used wireless headphones, and with using Bluetooth it drops quite a bit. I got around this by using a power bank, making the device's battery redundant, with a 10000mah power I get 4 days of continuous use. In summary; small, well built and very convenient, with a minor let down from its battery life. Don't expect professional level sound, for that you need to spend a lot more money.

The Sony NW-A105 comes with a full Android operating software baked in, it works just like app-heavy Android smartphone. Which is exactly what I wanted to get away from when looking for an iPhone alternative with a dedicated music player. The hardware is very good. The quality of the sound is better than iPhone 14. We can add SD card to the player: we can substantially extend the storage. No need to buy expensive version with more internal storage. The supplied Music Centre software intended to manage the player content is not efficient. It was not possible to create playlist in a normal way: usually we select the tracks. drop it in the list folder. It is not working this way. A way to solve this issue: In iTunes artists are arranged as folders: using Windows Explorer I dropped the files made by iTunes in the SD card Music folder. Or in the internal storage Music folder. When playing ,select a folder you want (artist) from the playing menu, start the first track - it will play all tracks in artist folder , in the sequence made by iTunes. So, no need to create Playlist- arrange a folder, drop inside what you want. Seems Sony limited the charging current to be safer for the device, but it is taking long time to charge. Probably was possible to make the device with larger screen, larger battery, longer playing time. My fingers are normal, but still I need to be very careful how I hit the buttons. The larger screen should be better. As a music player it is really good. I tried with several different high end Hi-Res Audio headphones: works fine. Can adjust the volume and the sound is really good.

Hatte zuvor den FiiO X5 MK3, dieser ist nun in die Jahre gekommen, Android 5.x wurde auch elendiglich langsam. Der NW-A105 macht vieles besser, hat zwar keinen Balanced Ausgang für Kopfhörer, stört mich aber nicht, da der Unterschied nicht wirklich groß ist (zwischen Balanced in-Ear und normalen in-Ear kopfhörern). Klangmäßig kein Abstrich, daher volle Punktzahl. Bedienung und Haptik sehr gut, Sony-Kopfhörer sind dank LDAC im Vorteil. Einziger Nachteil, der Akku. Dieser hält vermutlich maximal 6 Stunden, dies könnte besser sein. Der Player wird beim Betrieb ziemlich warm, für die Wintermonate ideal. Die P/L bezieht sich auf den Aktionspreis vom Black Friday, für 200 € uneingeschränkt empfehlbar, eine gute Powerbank sollte man sich dazu auch gönnen, wenn man länger hören möchte, oder auf Reisen geht.

Possesseur d'un portable Sony XZ3, je me demandais si ça valait le coup de mettre un tel prix dans un Walkman qui a des modes et ampli de son identique à se modèle hormis de pouvoir lire des fichiers DSD, et bien... Quel surprise, la qualité de son est vraiment encore 10 x mieux, quel précision, quel puissance, musicalité, j'étais scotché pourtant la qualité de son de mon XZ3 est déjà vraiment surprenantes sur un casque, mais la c'est un autre monde, en plus ont peu y mettre tout ce qui existe comme type de fichiers de son, les DSD donc en haute résolution c'est juste bluffant, je suis en train de tout numériser mes CD en fichier FLAC, du coup il ne s'abîmeront plus, j'ai prit une carte de 256 go pas cher sur Amazon qui fait le taf et bien sûr la coque transparente qui va bien sur ce même site et adapter à mon modèle le nwa105, indispensable pour le protéger, c'est un vrai bijou, tout en métal, je l'est prit en rouge pour changer, magnifique ! Je l'utilise avec un Sony WH-1000XM3, et un bowers and wilkins P7 une tuerie, contrairement à un autre commentaire, le son avec le WH-1000XM3 est juste merveilleux, il se plaignait de pas pouvoir accéder au réglages du casque sur le Walkman, mais il suffit de mettre l'application du casque sur le nwa105.... qui a le WiFi et l'accès évidement au play store, et ont peu y mettre toutes les appli que vous voudrez, l'alliance de ce Walkman et du casque de Sony donne un résultat absolument fou, si vous le pouvez, foncer !

Bonito, buen tamaño y buena usabilidad. Soporta muchos formatos, y el que sea Android, permite usar también Qobuz y Tidal. Por contra, se calienta bastante, y la calidad del sonido es inferior a la que da un iPhone con el adaptador estándar lightning-jack. Le falta potencia. Mucha. Incluso con auriculares de alta sensibilidad se queda corto (en volumen, y, sobre todo, en control)

The build quality and the ergonomic are fantastic. To the point you'd just wonder why to pay more when this one does the trick. Of course, there are major known cons such a the battery life (4 to 5 hours at best if you leave the bluetooth or wifi on), or the Android OS which hasn't been customized for Audio. I guess (YMMV) it is possible to cope with them with workarounds and habit. Unfortunately I have found another major flaw when you listen to streaming services. This device won't be able to sound that great unless you use something like UAPP. This is something you only realize if you have good iem by the way. UAPP is great but do have all the bells and whistles of the service app (Tidal, Qobuz,...). For instance you can't view the lyrics or listen to downloaded content. If you only use local files from your SD card then I believe this walkman is a great value at the current discount price if you don't mind the poor battery life and the average UI Android experience.