Sony: “Video Walkman is in the works”

Chris Davies, Oct 12th 2006 Discuss [2]

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Hot on the heels of their flash-memory PMP announcement, Sony have also come out with the news that they’re planning a Video Walkman to compete with, you guessed it, Apple’s ever-so-successful video-capable iPod.

“We are developing a product that handles images, but I cannot make any comment on specific plans” Sony Senior Vice President Hiroshi Yoshioka

Sony HMP A1

Also without any sort of evidence behind it was Yoshioka’s claim that he would double Sony’s 10% share of the lucrative portable media market. Without wishing to sound like Mister Negative from Negative Land, but Sony are really going to have to put their money where their corporate mouth-piece is if they want people to take this latest foray seriously.

Sony says developing video Walkman [Reuters]

Edit: the picture above shows Sony’s HMP-A1 PMP, released in 2004, and not whichever video device the company is talking about currently.