SERVICE MANUAL
Published by Sony Techno Create Corporation
Sony Corporation
NW-S202/S202F/S203F/S205F
SPECIFICATIONS
DIGITAL MUSIC PLAYER
9-887-385-03
2006K05-1
C
2006.11
Connect Business Division
US Model
Canadian Model
E Model
Australian Model
Tourist Model
NW-S203F/S205F
AEP Model
UK Model
NW-S202/S202F/S203F/S205F
Chinese Model
NW-S202F/S203F/S205F
Ver. 1.2 2006.11
• SonicStage and the SonicStage logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Corporation.
• OpenMG, ATRAC, ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus and their logos are trademarks of Sony Corporation.
• “WALKMAN” and “WALKMAN” logo are registered trademarks of Sony Corporation.
• Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT and Windows Media are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
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• MPEG Layer-3 audio coding technology and patents licensed from Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson.
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• CD and music-related data from Gracenote, Inc., copyright
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Audio compression technology
– MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (MP3)
– Windows Media Audio (WMA)
*
– Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC)
– Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)
*
* WMA/AAC format audio les that are copyright-protected cannot be played back.
Maximum recordable number of songs and time (Approx.)*
* e approximate times are based on a transferred 4-minute ATRAC or MP3 format song. Other playable audio le
formats may be dierent from ATRAC or MP3 format.
NW-S202F/S202 NW-S203F
Bit rate Songs Time Songs Time
48 kbps 340 22 hr. 40 min. 685 45 hr. 00 min.
64 kbps 255 17 hr. 00 min. 515 34 hr. 20 min.
96 kbps 170 11 hr. 20 min. 345 23 hr. 00 min.
128 kbps 125 8 hr. 20 min. 260 17 hr. 20 min.
132 kbps 120 8 hr. 00 min. 250 16 hr. 40 min.
160 kbps 100 6 hr. 40 min. 205 13 hr. 40 min.
192 kbps 85 5 hr. 40 min. 170 11 hr. 20 min.
256 kbps 64 4 hr. 10 min. 130 8 hr. 40 min.
320 kbps 51 3 hr. 20 min. 100 6 hr. 40 min.
352 kbps 46 3 hr. 00 min. 94 6 hr. 10 min.
NW-S205F
Bit rate Songs Time
48 kbps 1,350 90 hr. 00 min.
64 kbps 1,000 66 hr. 40 min.
96 kbps 690 46 hr. 00 min.
128 kbps 520 34 hr. 40 min.
132 kbps 500 33 hr. 20 min.
160 kbps 415 27 hr. 40 min.
192 k
bps
345 23 hr
. 00 min.
256 kbps 260 17 hr. 20 min.
320 kbps 205 13 hr. 40 min.
352 kbps 185 12 hr. 20 min.
Capacity (User available capacity)*
NW-S202F/S202: 512 MB (Approx. 482 MB = 505,724,928 bytes)
NW-S203F: 1 GB (Approx. 968 MB = 1,015,726,080 bytes)
NW-S205F: 2 GB (Approx. 1.89 GB = 2,035,974,144 bytes)
* Available storage capacity of the player may vary.
A portion of the memory is used for data management functions.
Supported bit rates
MP3: 32 to 320 kbps variable bit rate-compliant
WMA: 32 to 192 kbps variable bit rate-compliant
ATRAC: 48/64/66 (ATRAC3)*/96/105 (ATRAC3)*/128/132 (ATRAC3)/160/192/256/320/352 kbps
* CD recording cannot be done using SonicStage software in ATRAC3 at 66/105 kbps.
AAC: 16 to 320 kbps variable bit rate-compliant*
* Nonstandard bit rates or non-guaranteed bit rates are included depending on the sampling frequency.
Photo: NW-S203F
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