Listening to your cassettes is easy with this Sony portable cassette player. The tuner includes AM, FM, TV and weather bands, and lets you pre-set up to 40 stations.
The Sony WM-FX290- Good Things Still Come in Small Packages.
Rating
Written By Bensisco
Date Written Apr 24 2004
Summary
I recently purchased the Sony WM-FX290 AM/FM Stereo Cassette Player to listen to while on morning walks. If you’re considering this unit, you will hopefully find this review very useful. First the overview: The Sony WM-FX290 is a slim and...
Strength
Small size, long battery life, lots of features.
Weakness
Consolidated buttons/features.
Bottom Line
I definitely recommend the WM-FX290. It’s lightweight, reasonably priced, and affordable to operate. I slip mine into my jacket pocket each morning and enjoy it on my daily walk.
SONY Walkman WM-FX290 Works Well, Some Useless Features
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Written By octoberman
Date Written Apr 30 2005
Summary
Sony Walkman WM-FX290 This walkman has FM/AM radio, reception of some TV stations, a weather band, and a tape player. I know that most people these days prefer to wear iPods or at least portable CD players, or other digital machines, but I like to...
Strength
Pretty good design, nice style, main features work well
Weakness
It has a bunch of useless features
Bottom Line
Nice simple product for Walkman fans at a reasonable price.
This is a decent cassette player in a field of crappy cassette players. The really good ones cost much more. This is probably the best cassette player that still has mechanical buttons and mechanism, which means it is much more reliable than the better...
Strength
best mechanical non-auto-reverse player
Weakness
bad tape window, odd door opening, some periodic cellphone noise
I just purchased it sine my 481 I believe got tossed out by mistake[ouch] this I find very different from that one and it is rather annoying I cannot get tv channels 2,4,5, barely get 7,13, seems 9,11 are ok. My reason for purchasing the other was to...
Strength
Yes its slimmer lighter to carry but?????????? [see below]
The player is the upgrade to the FX281. I liked the 281 better because it had 4 buttons on the front to seperate the different bands - I liked that more - but of course Sony thinks consolidation is key - that is their choice. Overall it is a good...
This radio has no where near the tuner found in the old FX281. I own both and only use this for tapes. Also I liked the controls on the old model better. Might have been more buttons but it was a better design. Sony made a cheaper model at the same old...
Strength
Not many to be found. The audio is good.
Weakness
Two batteries are better than one as found here. Radio tuner is crap at best.
