Sony NW-E507 Update in progress…
I spent most of the weekend away from my gadgets (except the cameras) as I was down in Mexico doing a service project at an orphanage with the Corazon de Vida Foundation entertaining kids for a day. I highly recommend this if you’re in the Southern California area. If you don’t do any sort of community service or charity work in general, you really are missing out. You would be amazed at how much you can help others with the most simplest of things and how much we take for granted while living in the United States of America.
At any rate, before I left I found out that there is a recently released firmware update for most NW-4xx and 5xx series Network Walkmen. In fact, this firmware update (v2.00) is available in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the Asia-Pacific regions. From what I can tell, the UK and AP versions are exactly the same. There is no US version available and my US version had firmware version v1.00.
As you would all expect I tried one of the firmwares (UK version) on my unit and it worked perfectly. I will be trying the Japanese version later today to see if it works.
So, what’s new? The new firmware resolves a few issues and adds support for new screen display modes. I will be updating the review to reflect the changes.
In other related news, I found two other methods of transferring songs onto the NW-E507 which will definitely appeal to people. Both methods involve drag and drop and one of them involves not using SonicStage and is completely portable (assuming you only use Windows systems) at all so most people will want to check out the review. Expect it later today.
