Engadget has pictures of the two devices side-by-side, from various angles. The new Sony unit is significantly smaller than the iPod, and houses 20BG of storage. Sony is still dissembling about battery life, claiming 40 hours—which, as usual, applies only to playback of ATRAC3 files, which only 17 people on the planet actually use. Most of the comments on the Engadget pictures are calling the Sony unit far more stylish than the iPod.
Sony NW-HD5 vs. iPod
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. The radio is only good here -the UK- if you have crap taste in music. Screw the radio, I'm getting a 20Gb mp3 player 'cos my taste in music rocks :P
Posted at 5:58AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Warlock
1. I'd buy it in a second if it had a radio. Radio. Killer feature. In UK, we pay for radio and it's good. Everyone gets sick of their tunes and want news etc. I'd buy an iPod in a second if it had a radio.
Posted at 5:58AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Geokker