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Review summary: Excellent battery life, but Sony's insistence on using its Atrac DRM holds it back

Verdict: The NW-E003 is Sony's latest attempt to corner the ultra-portable mp3 player market.

Review summary: This MP3 player comes with a storage capacity of 2GB, which saves upto 500 songs and has a monochrome OLED display. It supports MP3, WMA, ATRAC3 and ATRAC3plus audio formats. It also has an in-built Lithium Ion battery, which provides playback time of ...

Review summary: The Sony NW-E000 is a compact, stylish flash MP3 player that those who can tolerate SonicStage should consider, but beware the unintuitive interface.

Pros: The Sony NW-E000 features a stylish design with a handy built-in USB interface, and it offers some desirable features, such as an FM radio. It's also competitively priced.

Cons: Sony's requisite SonicStage software still leaves much to be desired, and the NW-E000's display is impossible to read in direct sunlight. This player's controls are also rather unintuitive.

Verdict: Sony may have given up the portable audio crown to Apple years ago, but the Walkman pioneer has never given up the ghost. Although the tech giant made some questionable decisions during the past several years, such as placing a large amount of energy ...