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Sony Walkman NWZ-X1000 Touchscreen PMP with WiFi

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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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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Touchscreen Sony Walkman is Here!

Friday, December 12, 2008

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Not entirely a hundred per cent sure that Sony will be diving full-pledged into the PMP market with a touchscreen version of the Walkman. It’s been a long time coming but it’s worth the wait, if the rendered photos can be trusted. Specs include a 3-inch touchscreen OLED, up to 32GB of storage, WiFi, a [...]

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Official: Sony Walkman NWZ-A820 Launched in Europe

Thursday, February 21, 2008

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The Sony Walkman A820 has been officially launched in Europe. Yes, we’ve “announced” the A820 a couple of times before but not with the official color-lineup photo. The A820 can be pre-ordered from Sony, which will ship the Walkmans on April. The A829 will be available in four colors (show above) and in capacities [...]

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The Sony NWZ-A820: Photo and Video

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

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So this is what the A820 looks like. It’s a little squarish, Sony apparently deciding the fancy control keys arrangement wouldn’t work with a bigger screen, given the similar portable form factor. The design is pretty tight, slimmer than its predecessor and a veritable treasure of conveniences design-wise. The guys at Generation MP3 no [...]

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Sony NWZ-A820 Walkman Announced for Europe

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

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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 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 Walkmans get Price Cuts

Monday, September 10, 2007

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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 NWZ-S610 Hands-On Video

Friday, August 31, 2007

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Sony’s Walkman S610 is an ultraportable PMP that has the potential to make much headway in the Apple-dominated MP3 market. It’s not only an MP3 of course but a full PMP with video playback fucntionality and an FM tuner. We’d rather have a 2.5-inch screen but the 1.8-inch QVGA of the S610 should suffice for [...]

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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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