It is the standard 16GB model, so yes, I overpaid by like 60 dollars since NY has 8.25% sales tax and I consider the shipping to be actually fair since it was FedEx expedited. I pre-ordered my device from B&H and the whole push to 2018 felt silly considering that the DAP of my life (Rockbox'd...

I picked one up off ebay from a Korean seller (worlddigital2000). It cost me $299 + $39 shipping. This version is also multilingual so I didn't have to mess with anything when I got it. The one I picked up has Russian and 10 other languages: https://imgur.com/a/PuKcd

Welp, time to get a refund from my friends at B&H. Does anyone here have a Japanese NW-A45 from the Amazon.co.jp store which they have successfully set to English using the tool from the Rockbox developers, or does the tool only work with the "tourist" version someone mentioned earlier...