What SoC is Sony using in the new A and ZX Walkmans?

Last month in an interview with Sony's Ryogo Tsukigi on Philweb, quite a few new details emerged about the new A and ZX Walkmans. The first, measures were taken to reduce the noise from the Wi-Fi chip and SoC; second, high resolution streaming services will be downgraded to 48Khz/16bit; and finally, the new A/ZX Walkmans were using a 1.8Ghz quad-core SoC but the manufacturer/specifications were not mentioned.

Sony NW-A100 Walkman available for Pre-order on Amazon Japan (update)

The new NW-A100 Walkman is available for pre-order on Amazon Japan. If anyone wishes to pre-order, and wishes to support the blog, please do use the affiliate links below, since a small tiny percent of the purchase will help fund the purchase of future products for review.

Sony NW-A50 Walkman shows up on Sony's European sites

The upcoming NW-A55L for Europe has finally appeared on Sony's European websites. It looks like only the 16GB version will be offered in black, gold, red, blue and green for most EU countries, and like I posted earlier, there is no FM tuner. Pricing is 180 GBP or 199 Euros.

Mediatek MT2811, the new Bluetooth chip in Sony's Wireless headsets

Mediatek tweeted last week that their chip powers the WF-1000XM3, but we already knew this back in August in the teardown article from 52audio. What Mediatek did not provide was anymore details like specifications or a datasheet in the tweet.

Sony Headphone internal codes and Bluetooth SoCs

Sony WF-1000X BT

In a previous article I outlined many of the current and past Walkman model internal codes Sony uses.  While the Walkman models use ICX for their prefix, the headphones use HDX. I will try to keep this updated with the latest information but it is not always possible to find the code, the Bluetooth chip or both.

You will definitely need a microSD for the new A-Series Walkman

The move to Android for the operating system apart from impacting the battery life, has cut the actual storage in both the new A-Series and ZX-Series. In the product videos for both the A-Series and ZX-Series, some fine print can be seen at the bottom when the storage capacity is mentioned.

Sony NW-A55L identical to NW-A55 minus the FM tuner (update)

I have finally received a reply from Sony regarding the upcoming NW-A55L Walkman destined for Europe. In the original post there was confusion whether this would ship with a new USB type-C port and Bluetooth 5.0.