The Walkman A840 is Sony’s thinnest ever and with the introduction of the 64GB Walkman A847, it’s about to change the way we see flash MP3 players. This is the sleekest in 3 decades of Walkman experience, so it’s quite the historic Sony PMP. The Walkman A840 is only 7.2mm thin and boasts a 2.8-inch [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 19, 2009
Here are two more new models you can add to the Sony Walkman line-up apart from the NW-A840 we previously reported. The S640 is available in 8GB and 16GB variants and comes with ambient noise filtration. The S740, meanwhile, boasts of noise cancellation and has more variations to choose from – 8/16/32GB capacities. Both models [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The new A-series OLED PMP from Sony is their thinnest ever Walkman. The NW-A840 is only 7.2mm, so thin in fact that there’s little choice not to make this an OLED player. The screen is 2.8 inches, which means you will need the video out option to fully enjoy the 720 x 480 videos this [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
We wish the Sony Walkman E-series would offer better capacity, as it is, the non-touchscreen Walkman will come in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB. It has a 2.0-inch screen, an FM tuner and recorder. They don’t have an official price for it yet, though release date seems to be in a matter of weeks. We like to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 14, 2009
It’s finally gotten official pricing and the touchscreen Sony Walkman X1000 w/ WiFi will be costing consumers a bundle, starting 40,000 yen for the 16GB ($401) and topping at 50,000 yen for the 32G or just over $500. It’s WiFi all right and it’s a touchscreen but to price a PMP at smartphone levels? We [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 3, 2009
Still curious if you are willing to jump Sony’s way in your next touchscreen PMP purchase? CNET Asia has a brief review of Sony’s X1000 Walkman, the first touchscreen Walkman. One major disappointment is the low-rez 320 x 240 screen. When most new players are going to WVGA, Sony’s Walkman range lags behind in the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Amazon UK is now selling Sony’s first touchscreen PMP series, the Walkman NWZ-X1000. Both the NWZ-X1050 (16GB) and NWZ-X1060 (32GB) connect to the Internet via WiFi. The NWZ-X1000 seris delivers great music with features like Digital Amplifier ”S-Master” and DSEE (Digital Noise Canceling, Digital Sound Enhancement Engine). You can play YouTube videos, automatically download podcasts [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 5, 2009
Journaldugeek has an exclusive on Sony’s touchscreen Walkman, the first of the X series. We were excited when the Sony Walkman NWZ-X1000 was first announce, this being Sony’s first touchscreen PMP. We know as far as design goes, it has ways to go before beating the iPod Touch but performance is another thing altogether. Greg [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 15, 2009
Contrast - A Sony Flex OLED Walkman Concept from Sony Insider on Vimeo. The future of the PMP market could be the Sony Walkman, that is, if Sony could put the Contrast on retail stores soon enough… before Apple, Nokia, LG etc. get hold of the technology. The technology is a flexible OLED screen wrapped around [...]
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Monday, October 19, 2009
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