Happy Birthday Genie!!!

Swiped it !

I swiped it I swiped it! Last night, I swiped this credit card with my signature for the 1st time in my life... Not spending a lot tho, just trial to see if it works. Haha, I know I had used credit card to buy tickets countless times oredy... But to swipe it in cashier does feel different.

Dunno out of what reason, my dad just applied me a supplementary credit card awhile ago. What? No... It's not usual in my family as I'm the only child to have this privilege. Bias? No Larrr.. =P

Definitely Not iPod =P

This is it! Finally a perfect Walkman for me. It had been 3 years since I wanted to upgrade a new Walkman when a button on my ex defected and unable to hoop between albums. That was my 1st mp3 player, and *ehem* was the world's 1st built-in noise-canceling mp3 player. After having that, I'm no longer interested in players without that function.

It's also the 1st with 2nd gen. bundled NC headphone.

So it took me to wait for 3 years until this 4th generation of NC Walkman with 2 major improvements that I longing for.

Large album art + Disney-free D-pad

Old walkman interface + Disney D-pad

1. Finally a sexy and "Disney Mickey Mouse"-free D-pad design. Try see older walkmans to what I mean...

2. Finally a change in walkman interface with large album art by knocking off useless information such as Genre and Release Year. This is extremely important for me as I really like to look at album arts when listening songs. (My roommate surely can prove this XD) Without this update, I'm definitely going to wait for another year.

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However, the noise-canceling function is changed too in this model and it doesn't sounds like an upgrade. Original NC function will analyzes ambient noise and produce identical canceling waves. But this new version, so called Digital NC doesn't have the analyzing function. Canceling waves are produced with a range of amplitudes that can be adjusted by user. Still there is an advantage to this Digital NC too. For me heavy NC is slightly uncomfortable, so its actually good to be able to tweak the NC myself...

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After the hype, now I finalize this player with 2 cons.
1. No File management in player. Means you cannot delete songs without connect to computer. This really suck!
2. Incomplete chinese characters support without changing the player language to chinese. Buu~