AV Watch has a hands on from the Walkman event today, check it out at their site for tons of photos.
Tuesday 13 September 2011
Monday 12 September 2011
Sony Japan Introduces New A-Series and S-Series Walkman
This was no surprise, Sony Japan has decided to introduce the new Walkman A and S-Series to Japan. The mystery of what happened to the Noise Cancellation on the EU/US model is now solved, it is from the Japanese model. Even the new S-Series features noise cancellation.
The new A-Series will come in 3 capacities (16, 32, 64GB) and 3 colours (pink, white, black), although a photo of a blue A-Series is on the Walkman website, this is a Limited Edition model which will only be available exclusively via the Sony Store and only in 64 GB.
The standard non-bluetooth S-Serie will come in 3 capacities (8, 16, 32GB) and 8 colours (Blue / Vivid Pink / Green / Light /Purple / Gold / White / Black). The K model with the speaker stand also ships in the same 8 colours but only 8 anad 16 GB sizes. Finally the bluetooth equipped model ships only in 8 GB sizes and with 4 colours (Vivid pink / blue / white / black).
Finally one interesting note, the radio frequency is all the way up to 108Mhz. Release date is Early October with open pricing.
Link to S-Series Gallery http://www.sony.jp/walkman/photogallery/s760series/
Press release http://www.sony.jp/CorporateCruise/Press/201109/11-0913C/
Sony Introduces new Android Walkman Z-Series
Sony Japan has unveiled the new Android Walkman dubbed the Z-Series. Slated for a December 10th debut, the new Z-Series comes in 3 different capacities (16, 32 and 64GB) and 2 different colours, red and black. The screen is a 4.3in LCD with a resolution of 480x800. Like the X-Series, the new Z-Series will ship with the S-Master MX Amp. Digital Noise Cancellation is also supplied to cut out 98% of outside noise.
Other features like DSEE, clear bass and clear stereo also come standard.
The new W button will allow the user to operate the player and bring up controls even when the player is locked. I would think this is for playback control since there are no physical play/stop buttons.
When playing back music, the user has a choice of 3 different visualizations which they can choose to display while playing back music.
The new Z-Series ships with Android Market which will allow for installation of hundreds of different applications and games. Connectivity is also very rich with bluetooth, hdmi out and DLNA support. Sadly codec support is not the greatest but hopefully this can be fixed with other applications from the market place which can play more codecs.
Specifications and link to photo gallery after the break.
Sony Walkman Event 9/13 (Japan)
According to AV Watch and The Walkman "Play You" Facebook page, it appears that there will be a Walkman Event in Japan tomorrow on the 13th of September at 13:00 local time.
I am not sure if it is a new product launch, the translation from Google is rather confusing. But from what I can gather it should be a new player, but it is unknown at this moment if it will be the new A-Series that will be launching or something else. The debut is supposed to occur on YouTube.
If anyone has anymore information or can translate the 2 pages (AV Watch and Facebook more precisely, please leave a comment on this post or contact me via the contact page.
Thursday 1 September 2011
Sony Walkman MEP Hands on Videos
Here is another hands on of the new Walkman prototype, which I will be dubbing the Walkman MEP for short.
So as visible on the screen, the device ships with Android 2.3.4 and WM port 1.2. I would imagine that Sony would choose to release this during Christmas to take advantage of the shopping season and the fact that Ice Cream Sandwich will be released by then. I personally hope Sony does not add a camera to the back of this and instead adds large premium speakers.