Summary
Over the past 10 months, the iPod has seamlessly permeated my life. My music collection is far more organised now; I listen to a lot more of it, while driving, flying, working, waiting... any time and anywhere. At the core lies the near-magical ability to carry 600 albums in my pocket, sliced and sorted by genres, artists, albums or songs, at my whim. And around that core is an ever-growing range of accessories, software and hardware to enable me to crank up my little white, smaller-than-a-cigarette-pack gizmo, any which way I want. In the car to work, the iPod mates with the iTrip to broadcast its hard disk full of songs directly to the car's sound system; in an aircraft, noise-cancelling in-ear phones (specially designed for the pod) block the ambient noise and deliver pure music; at home the iPod quickly connects, wirelessly or otherwise, to my stereo system, eliminating the need to search for CDs or tracks that I want to play. And I can even create my own playlists on the fly, at the click of a button and light flicks of my thumb on its touch- sensitive wheel.
Here I am blabbering about the iPod when the matter at hand is actually the Sony Network Walkman HD3 (yes, a mouthful, I know!), which wants to take the iPod head-on. Besides its size (it's even smaller than the iPod), the hd3 counts among its selling points, a higher battery life. If the iPod is nifty, the hd3 is niftier. Its 20-gigabyte hard disk holds (so says Sony) 13,000 songs of an average four minutes each, provided you store each of them in Sony's proprietarily owned atrac3plus compression format. In comparison, the iPod 20 GB model claims to store just 5,000 songs. In addition, the hd3 claims a battery life of 30 hours, whereas the iPod's is a mere 12 hours.See the full content of this document
Extract
Ipod Vs Hd3 ; Both Are Good, but One Is Clearly Better.
So, should I dump the pod and go for the Network Walkman? Probabl...
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