![]() ![]() It’s a staunchly off-line player - there’s no installing your favourite streaming apps here. These days, Sony uses the ‘Walkman’ sub-brand on a series of portable digital audio players - and this NW-A55 (£179), while far from the most expensive, might be the sweet-spot of the entire range. There’s one in every Design Museum worthy of the description. Storage: 16GB | Screen size: 3.1in | Battery life: 30 hrs Maximum file support: 32bit/384kHz DSD128 Dimensions (h/w/d): 10圆x1cm | Weight: 99gĪpple may think ‘20 years of iPod’ is a milestone, but Sony’s first portable music player (TPS-L2, the original Walkman) celebrated its 40th birthday last year. ![]() ![]() So if you’re all about iOS to start with, the seventh Touch is more than worthy of the iPod name. Detail levels are good, and it’s capable of meaningful volume. There’s not an awful lot of vigour to the Apple’s sound, but it’s nicely balanced and seems to get out of the way of most recordings rather than sticking its oar in. And while Apple is characteristically coy about the technical specifics of the Touch, it can handle most high-res audio files without alarm.Īnd most importantly of all, it’s a really enjoyable listen. It has a 3.5mm analogue headphone socket, for a start off, which gives it far wider headphone compatibility than the iPhone. It even has a zizzy little built-in speaker and a torch.Īway from all peripherals (the 8MP camera, the numerous apps crammed on the bright 4in retina display) the iPod Touch, as a music player, is all business. A big part of the reason this current, 7th generation of the Touch is the only iPod you can buy, of course, is the globe-munching success of the iPhone - so it seems only fitting that the iPod Touch (£199) looks and feels so much like a tiny iPhone from back in the day. Portable digital audio didn’t gain mainstream legitimacy until Apple launched its game-changing iPod back in 2001. Storage: 32GB | Screen size: 4in | Battery life: 40 hrs Maximum file support: 24bit/292kHz Dimensions (h/w/d): 12圆x1cm | Weight: 88g ![]()
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