Sony Walkman NWZ-X1000 Touchscreen PMP with WiFi

The iPod Touch will have a legitimate competitor when the Walkman X1000 comes out. The touchscreen Walkman is a 3-inch OLED touchscreen PMP that boasts wireless Internet and fancy noise-cancelling technology. The iPod Touch may have the App Store, but the X1000 has a better screen and arguably better media playback features. It plays WMV, [...]

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Sony NWZ-A820 Walkman Announced for Europe

The Walkman A810 is one of the most highly rated players of last year, and its successor, the A820 boasts Bluetooth connectivity (which the A810 did not have) and a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, .4-inch more viewing space than its predecessor. The A820 will be available in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB versions, so Sony is [...]

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Sony A820 PMP Found at FCC

Sony’s A810 DAP/ PMP is one of the most highly-rated media players to come out last year. Therefore, it’s exciting to find a successor making paying its respects to the FCC. We have no live shots of the hardware. Even a drawing is, sadly, not in circulation. What we do know about the NWZ-A820 is [...]

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Audio Ranking of PMPs Released

Our friends at GenerationMP3 tested a variety of PMP brands and came up with this hierarchy table of their sound-producing features. GMP3 has tested all of these devices so you can be sure that though they don’t claim total objectivity they know what they are talking about. The Clix 2 from iRiver took top honors [...]

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Sony Walkmans get Price Cuts

Sony’s new Walkman A810 and S610 get their prices slashed. It looks like because of the new iPods and the iPhone price cut, all PMPs and MP3 players from here on and going to get Chinese PMP prices. The 2GB Walkman A810 gets $20 off and will now retail for $120 and $150 for [...]

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Sony Walkman NW-A810 Released to the U.S.

The Sony Walkman A810 PMP has just been released to U.S. consumers. It is the A800 that we’ve seen launched for European markets. It’s the exact same walkman with MP3, ATRAC, WMA (non-DRM), AAC (non-DRM) music formats support and video playback on its 2-inch QVGA screen at 30fps. It has a tie-in with Sony Pictures [...]

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