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Sony NWZ-A729 Walkman MP3 players svelte design houses a gorgeous 2.4 QVGA LCD display that makes your audio and video entertainment come alive. The compact digital music players 16GB storage capacity and easy-to-use menus let you store and quickly find up to 4,000 of your favorite digital music tracks, hours of high quality video, or hundreds of photographs. An extra long 36 hour battery life means the fun will last as long as you do, while Sony Clear Audio technologies and the supplied EX Series headphones help ensure you enjoy superior CD-quality audio clarity, even when listening to external audio sources.

  • Digital player
  • 16 GB
  • AAC
  • MP3
  • PCM
  • WMA
  • Protected WMA (DRM)
  • Rechargeable Player batteryIntegrated

Sony Walkman NWZ-A729 Reviews from Cnet

The good: The Sony NWZ-A729 Walkman MP3 player series offers high-quality music, photo, and video playback, along with EX-style earphones and a phenomenal battery life.

The bad: The Sony NWZ-A729 series doesn’t come cheap, and it lacks an FM radio, voice recording, memory expansion, and a standard USB connection.

The bottom line: The Sony NWZ-A729 is the best-sounding, best-looking Walkman series yet, and the inclusion of premium earphones adds real value.
Sony Walkman NWZ-A729 reviews from Amazon

Pros:

1. Battery life. So far, I’ve been playing video and MP3s on one charge about 9 hours and the battery light is still 1/2 full. The statistics claim 10 hours of video and 30+ hours of MP3 songs. I don’t know if I’ll get that much, but so far I’m very happy.

2. My favorite feature of this player is that it does not rely on ID3 tags in order to catalog your music. The majority of my MP3 collection is several years old and do not have ID3 tags embedded in the file. My nano would not recognize these songs, but this player just plays based on files and folders.

Cons:

1. The file transfer speed seems pretty slow to me given it’s USB 2.0. Takes about 3 minutes to transfer a 500MB movie. About 50 seconds to transfer a standard MP3 album. Not a huge deal, but my Nano was much quicker.

2. When you unplug the player from the USB cable, and have hundreds of files on it like I currently have, it has to build the library, which can take up to 30 seconds, before you can access it.

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