Another day with the Pre
Audio quality good, battery life not stellar.
As hobby musician and having produced some Indie CDs once at a time I’m particularly picky about audio quality. some 3-5 years ago the Sony cellphones were particularly bad examples, such as the K750 or M600i with light noise and particularly annoying clicks between the files (re-initializing some hardware mp3 decoder?). Not so the Pre: with some regular earbuts I can not complain, low noise and no clicks :-) Just the volume level could be adjustable finer steps, … I should probably double check with a Sony studio reference headphone at home (or a scope :-).
However, the battery life is not as stellar: Full charge and no use gives 90% at the end of the day. Some light browsing at night down below 80%. Airplane mode over the night some 73%. A call and some MP3s at work later it’s at 34% right now.
Update: Apparently the built-in Pre music player lacks in-track fast-forward, rewind–read: a play position control :-(!
