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Sony NWZ-A826

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8.6
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8.2
Value for money (4)

4.5
Features (6)

5.8
Sound quality (6)

6.6

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really good shuffle, it is just excellent, efficient bass booster, really good usability, very fast music transfer

no carry pouch, sony exclusive connection, bluetooth isnâ€™t for everyone, supplied headphones sound mediocre, expensive compared to other

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Sony NWZ-A826

The Sony NWZ-A826 is a portable multimedia device that was released by Sony under its Walkman brand. The player measures 3.7 x 2.01 x 0.37 inches and weighs approximately 2.05 ounces. It can be used to store and play audio and video files as well as store and view image files. The player is only available in black with 4 gigabytes of flash memory that can accommodate up to 2,450 audio files or up to 15 hours of video files.

The Sony NWZ-A826 comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA (320 x 240 pi…

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Sony NWZ-A826

The Sony NWZ-A826 comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) resolution TFT color display that supports up to 262,144 colors. The display is lit by white LED backlights. The player is powered by a built-in Li-ion rechargeable battery that takes about 3 hours to fully charge and about 1.5 hours for 80% recharging. It is recharged using USB via a WM-Port but an AC adapter is also available for separate purchase. When fully charged, Sony estimates that the battery can last up to 36 hours of continuous music playback and up to 10 hours of continuous video playback.

The Sony NWZ-A826 portable multimedia device is equipped with integrated Bluetooth Version 2.0 technology for simple streaming to compatible products. Wireless Bluetooth headphones are also available for the player.

Multimedia

The Sony NWZ-A826 supports popular audio formats including MP3, WMA2, AAC2-LC2, and Linear PCM. It also supports 30 frames per second video playback of AVC (H.264/AVC) and MPEG-4. For images, JPEG files up to 4000 x 4000 pixels resolution can be stored and viewed.

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NWZ-A826

Reviewer: Stuff.tv
18 March 2008

Overall 8

An audiophile-friendly MP3 player that also happens to do a neat line in video. At a lower price it'd certainly receive five stars Read more
Sony Bluetooth Walkman NWZ-A826K

Reviewer: Register Hardware
7 May 2008

Overall 9

The longer we live with the Walkman the more we are driven to an strange conclusion. Yes, the Walkman is good, very good in fact, but like the Samsung P2, which is also very good, it is just not as flat out cool, neat, funky - use whatever you word you want - to own and use as an iPod. This test has underlined to us once again just what a curiously but desperately possessable gadget the iPod, any iPod, is. Buy the Walkman and you will come to like it and respect it... Read more
Sony NWZ-A826

Reviewer: DigitalVersus
10 April 2008

Overall 8

The NWZ-A82* series from Sony is equipped with a large screen, an elegant finish, and new functions such as Bluetooth 2.0. On the other hand, we disliked the mostly plastic body, glossy screen, and there is some room for improvement in video. It’s not the perfect evolution as we expected. Read more
Sony NWZ-A826 attack on apple iPods market

Reviewer: Preview Gadgets
8 July 2008
Sony’s video-playing Walkmans A810 was very successfully and they created new series A820, which is going to attach iPods market. The A820 is small like iPod Nano and other features like Touch. This can be dangeroust game for Sony, they could want to satisfied both sides, but at the end they could satisfied no one. [...] Read more
Reviewer: What Hi-Fi?
27 July 2008

Overall 8

It may be pricey, but Sony's Walkman is a fine MP3 player and a good alternative to everything Apple Read more

User Reviews

Reviewer: jimbomak, What Hi-Fi?
31 December 2008
Aparna - Try registering your Sony at the Sony website and download some of their free software. I use Image Converter 3 to convert stuff to mp4. This is part of the Walkman Launcher package. You may already have this on the cd that came with your player. Read more
Reviewer: Review Centre
20 August 2008

Overall 8

Value for money 4

Features 4

Sound quality 5

The Sony NWZ-A826 4GB is slick, simple menu, wireless quality is impressive and extremely convenient. I can listen to music and walk around the house without carrying the player. Read more
Francine, London “I love music inspiration”

Reviewer: Reevoo
6 May 2009

Overall 10

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NWZ-A826

Reviewer: Felix Technics, Stuff.tv
17 February 2009
I have two of these frakkers - and they are great! The 16 and 8 gb. Sound is great and quality is better than the apple. Best MP3 players I've owned and I've owned a few Jimmy. Read more
Unreliable performance

Reviewer: Amazon
18 February 2010

Overall 2

I got the walkman 2 years ago and to begin with I loved it. It had everything I needed, the performance was great and I love the wireless headphones. But just as it came out of warranty the problems started. The headphones developed a crackling noise and kept losing the connection to the player, and it constantly kept crashing, and formatting it several times didn't fix it either. Not what I expected from Sony for that price. Read more