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Sony Walkman NW-E040 Kills Shuffle w/ Good Sense

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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With several cute colors available  for the changeable front panel with a cap, Sony is telling Apple they don’t need to be the tiniest to sell. Three versions are available: NW-E042 (2GB), NW-E043 (4GB) and the NW-E044 (8GB). All versions play MP3, WMA, ATRAC, PCM WAV and AAC music files and equipped with an FM [...]

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Sony Mylo 2 Refurbs for $149.99

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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The SmartQ 5 might look like a bargain, but that remains to be seen until an actual working model comes out. The Sony Mylo 2 (COM-2), on the other hand, is such a steal for $199.99 (after a $100 rebate) that there’s nothing left that only refurbished models can be bought. For refurbs, you can [...]

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Sony Mylo 2 Unboxed

Sunday, February 17, 2008

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In case someone notices that we’ve forgotten about Mylo 2 (and we have, sort of), here are some unboxing photos posted at a Chinese forum. Here are the parameters as posted: All parameters main parameters of 1 GB storage capacity type USB2.0 interface supports video playback MPEG-4 Simple Profile, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Baseline documents such as [...]

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Sony Mylo Officialized and Handled

Sunday, January 6, 2008

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  Great news for the world of portable media players. Sony’s Mylo is now official. This leaked info we got from QJ a couple of weeks back was right on target. Sony’s QWERTY PMP connects to the Net via WiFi, supports Skype instant messaging and - we assume - VOIP and plays YouTube via Flash Lite [...]

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Sony Shows off 1seg-Capable Walkman

Thursday, September 27, 2007

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Sony just showed off the NW-A910 Video Walkman series, which (like Toshiba’s Gigabeat V41), supports 1seg broadcasts. Slated for an early November release in Japan, the A919 (16GB), A918 (8GB) and A916 (4GB) models can handle MPEG-4 AVC and H.264 videos, ATRAC, AAC, MP3 and WMA audio files, and JPEGs. All three versions come with [...]

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Sony NWZ-S610: The Common Player

Thursday, August 30, 2007

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Sony has officially announced itself as a PMP manufacturer like all other PMP manufacturers by introducing the NWZ-S610 PMP and by announcing the demise of Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC), Sony’s proprietary audio compression. The S610 is a 1.8-inch QVGA player with MPEG-4 and AVC (aka H.264) playback at 30fps and MP3, , WMA (and [...]

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

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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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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Clarion’s High-End MAX9700DT Available Soon

Friday, April 27, 2007

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Clarion’s MAX9700DT will set back the Japanese buyer 341,250 Yen or around $2850 in U.S. money. For this price, one expects only the best features, and we’ll begin with the 7-inch touch-sensitive LCD screen and a 40GB hard disk drive. They call it an infotainment system. It’s a GPS system with 3D display [...]

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Sony Arrives With NW-A800 Series

Thursday, March 1, 2007

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Sony officially announces today the arrival of its NW-A800 series of video players. This is actually Sony’s, the same company responsible for putting millions of portable cassette players into hands across the world, first offering in the color screen digital audio player market. Sony’s NW-A800 also comes equipped with video playback capabilities.

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Sony’s NW-A800 Series outed.

Monday, February 19, 2007

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Things are finally heating up on the Sony DAP front, with those NW-A800 players we’ve been hearing about finally getting their first spy shots thrust into the public eye by the shameless Sony fanboys at ATRACLife. Not a lot of info can be divulged just yet, other than those 2-8GB capacity and 10 hour video battery [...]

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