Full specifications of Sony’s OLED-display NWZ-X1000-series Walkmans have emerged, courtesy of the Hong Kong SonyStyle store. The listing confirms the 3-inch WQVGA 432 x 240 OLED display together with the supported file types and maximum resolutions of the media the Walkman will play.
Sony’s AMOLED touchscreen Walkman PMPs, the NWZ-X1051 16GB and NWZ-X1061 32GB, have both been priced, at least in the UK. The two media devices – which boast integrated WiFi, 3-inch AMOLED touch-sensitive WQVGA screens and digital noise cancellation – are both available to order now from retailer Amazon UK, although delivery is estimated between two and five weeks.
Sony Ericsson have announced the W995 Walkman phone at Mobile World Congress this evening, an 8.1-megapixel cameraphone with A-GPS, WiFi and a 2.6-inch QVGA scratch-resistant display. There’s also DLNA support, 118MB of onboard storage and a Memory Stick M2 slot; there’ll be an 8GB M2 card in the box.
Sony Ericsson will be announcing a new flagship Walkman cellphone at Mobile World Congress next week, which according to the Unofficial SE Blog will look pretty much like this mockup image. Although exact cosmetic details aren’t known, the new Sony Ericsson Hikaru will have a metal casing, slide-out numeric keypad and 8GB of internal storage
The concept videos for Sony’s flexible OLED Walkman were apparently playing somewhere in the booth, and luckily for us, the folks over at Sony Insider caught some footage of it and uploaded it for the world to see. Interested in seeing what could very well be the future of portable music players? Watch the video after the jump.
Sony has announced the W and X-series of Walkman MP3 players, in the shape of the NWZ-W202 2GB and the NWZ-X1051 16GB and NWZ-X1061 32GB. The former has an active headphone system with jog dial control and ZAPPIN song search, while the latter players each have a 3-inch OLED touchscreen running at WQVGA resolution. They have integrated WiFi and can wirelessly access YouTube and download podcasts while mobile.
Lately we are hearing rumors of the new Sony Walkman NWZ-X1000, which reportedly features an OLED touchscreen display. The more we read about it the more we pictured images of an existing device, Apple’s iPod Touch. More details after the jump.
It seems that Sony adopted a few ideas from other music devices when creating the W-series Walkman. The “all-in-one” concept likely came from those big, bulky FM radio headsets, and the “no display” idea probably came from the iPod Shuffle.
The Walkman was a household name back in the good old days; I got my share of Walkman in tape, optical disk but somehow never longed for an MP3 version. I wonder it has anything to do with the iPod? Nearly 30 years of carrying the brand “Walkman”, Sony preps to launch its most advanced and feature-rich Walkman Music player ever at the coming CES 2009.
Japanese carrier KDDI have announced a tiny new Walkman phone by Sony Ericsson. The Xmini slider measures just 44 x 75 x 18mm, and has a touch-sensitive control surface that lights up with music transport buttons when the phone is closed.
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