Sony Unveils Slick Walkman X Series. Enough to Challenge the iPod?
May 13th, 2009 by Jeffrey L. Wilson
Today, Sony lifted the curtain on its latest portable media player: the Walkman X series. The music and video player features a 3-inch OLED touchscreen display, Wi-Fi connectivity, a wide 180-degree viewing angle, and integrated digital noise-canceling–but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Sony has packed some rather interesting features under the hood of the X series including “Scene Scroll” (which lets uses select their preferred time increment in a video, and move forward and backward through scenes with a swipe of the finger in a very Cover Flow-like fashion), Slacker Radio (which buffers and caches up to three of your favorite stations), and YouTube.
Users can interact with the Walkman X series via the aforementioned touch interface, or dedicated buttons for those that prefer physical keys. It supports protected WMV, H.264, and MPEG-4, and is rated for up to 33 hours of music playback and up to 9 hours of video playback. The Sony Walkman X ($265.07) players are available now for pre-order, and come in two capacities: 16GB ($299) and 32GB ($399), the same prices as similar-sized iPod touches.
Question: If you’re in the hunt for a new PMP, does the Walkman offer enough features (as nice they are) to sway you away from an iPod?
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May 14th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Sony’s Walkman NWZ-X1000 features an OLED touchscreen, Wi-Fi and built-in noise cancellation and could re-seat the brand as the world’s music player of choice… if it doesn’t come with typical Sony prices. The X-series Walkman seems like a very impressive piece of hardware. Much like its …
January 10th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
1st it cant play the sony atrac formats and 2ndly the screen provided should cover almost the whole front face of the device for bigger and more imprecive video and picture viewing.