Sony NW-A1200 (8GB, violet)

Pros: They look good for the first 10 mins of owning it...

Cons: For starters, you can't see it in the light....

Summary: I bought this thinking, stuff apple, sony have something here....WRONG. this MP3 player is the most poorly designed item i have seen yet. YOU CAN'T SEE THE SCREEN IN THE LIGHT, so unless your a zombie its already rather useless. then there is the tacky plasticy back it has not great...to make it worse though, and this really annoys me, dust gets inbetween the buttons and is then visible between the layers of plastic, which makes it look awful. now the software...its awful, not thought through at all, its unpredictable as to whether your music will actually be uploaded or not, and when uploaded doesn't go in track order, this means that its impossible to listen so a audio book. the interface on both the player and any computer is sloooww, and if you don't have acsess to the internet is unavailble. if you have two computers, then the software won't let you take music from both, or sinc on both!

Now my pet peave IT DOESN'T SELECT THE RIGHT MUSIC, my player selects the album below the one i have asked it to select!!

AVOID!!