Sony Walkman NW-A105 Hi-Res 16GB MP3 Player, Black

I have been using Sony Walkmans for a very long time. I have four (4) besides this one that I've been neglecting. I use this one everyday. The only thing that it has got negative about it is the Short battery life. This one has Sublime Sound that I've Never experienced in My Lifetime. I Love it Very Much. Another noteworthy aspect is the fact that it has the ability to access the internet with Android. I would recommend this to anyone who doesn't mind an approximate wait of 4 hours to fully charge from 25% or so. ( I, as of approximately, Feb-26-2021 tried using a direct A/C connection with what is known as a "Wall-Wart" and the Charge time Was Accelerated Immensely). After it is fully charged, it lasts a very long time for just music playing. Video will diminish the charge Way faster. One final thing, You should use a Micro SD card because this only has approximately 6 gigs free from first start-up. I installed a 64 GB chip and there is over 48 GBs even after I loaded 2173 song files. I hope this helps.

Battery life is kind of a mixed bag depending on if you are streaming over wifi and using bluetooth headphones or speakers. They both essentially half the battery life but, if I remember to download podcasts, audiobooks, and music to a micro SD card when I am charging in the evening I can get a couple days out of it. I also adjusted settings so it'll power off completely if there is no use for a few hours so it conserves battery that way as well. I really like it and while it isn't like some of my old music players at least it is modern enough to work with how music tends to be distributed and I am not having to rely as much on my phone as do everything device. If you don't like Android you'll probably not like this Walkman but, if you are familiar with Android and comfortable taking time to adjust settings you can definitely get a great deal of use. The physical buttons are super useful, as is the hold switch to lock all buttons except the power button. It charges pretty quickly so that's also nice. Some of the special audio features I can't test very well because I know I can't hear certain things well enough but, things sound good enough for me and my use cases. If you want a mini ipod touch running android this is a great choice. The touchscreen is very small but, very responsive I have small hands so unless using the keyboard to type something it's very workable. Typing can be a bit of a chore though. The screen looks good enough it's not like you'll be needing to look at it too much but it'll work. I haven't used it outdoors in strong light yet so I can't say whether it's going to be very viewable and it probably won't so I don't know if that is a problem for you. If you use headphones with a built in microphone you can use this for recording audio but, there is no built in microphone so you will have to use an external. I don't know if this needs saying but, this device also doesn't have speakers either so you will need an audio output device be that headphones or a speaker be they wired or bluetooth. I have Google Home/Nest smart speakers that I can output to just fine as well so it'll probably work fine with Sonos and Alexa devices as remote too. Hope this all helps someone with their purchasing decision.

With all the phones going without headphone jack nowadays I decided to put down the money for a good old mp3 player. Been using this for 5 months and I'm a happy customer.Pros:build quality: like all sony premium product the build quality on this is superb, it's small, feel nice in the hand and extremely solid. I wish my phone feel this good in the handsound quality: the most important aspect of an mp3 player, it supports all the codec you could think of and the sound quality is very good. It also drive iem and headphone better than the brt-5 that I had. overall nothing to complain about on the sound quality front.Con:android: this is both a pro and con, with android you can do a lot of things with it but it comes with all the drawback on android, slow startup, poor battery life etc.Overall I just treat this like an ipod, I load up my music collection on an sd card, turn off wifi, bluetooth, don't use any android app and I'm very happy with it. If you're looking to use spotify/bluetooth functionality maybe look somewhere else, the battery life is atroucious if you use the smart features. When they are all turned off, battery life is perectly adequate to get through a work week worth of listening for me (3-4 hrs a day)