Take an iPod Touch, swap out the LCD screen with an OLED screen, and you might just have Sony’s next Walkman. Sony Insider is reporting that we’ll apparently see a device with the following specs at CES this year:
- Capacities of 16GB and 32GB
- Three-inch WQVGA (480×320) OLED touchscreen
- Built-in Wi-Fi connection
- Click an artist’s name while a song is playing to view their videos on YouTube
- Apparent "full access" to YouTube website (although the post then says it’ll be similar to YouTube on the iPhone/iPod Touch)
- Support for audio podcasts and Crackle video feeds with automatic downloading
- Music purchases via Amazon’s music store
- File support for MP3, WMA, AAC, PCM, AVC, MPEG-4, and WMV
- FM radio
- Web browser (no word on Flash support)
- Built-in digital noise canceling
No word on pricing or anything since it’s still just a rumor. Looks solid so far, though.
Those pictures are pretty screwed up – the scale is completely different in the first hand picture from the second. There’s no way of really telling just how large or thin this is going to be until we see it, I guess. Specs sound good though, though I’m sure that Sony will overcharge for it especially with the OLED tech. Maybe they’ll overcharge less than Apple for a change…
Apple is NOT the standard!
1. Apple has a lousy sound quality on iPod/Phone. It is worse than a mini-disk I had from Sony years ago.
2. If Sony can merge this with their XPERIA X1 that would be the killer product for me.
3. Sony: please don’t call it iWalk and avoid people that will say you’re copying Apple – you’re superior in this field.
I like this product!!!
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@Jacob, I know that their later portable CD players had a very lousy amplification method, I’m not sure if this was carried into their Walkmans.
I really don’t like my iPod, I have actually gone to the extent of getting 30ft of cord from my computer to my amp to my headphones. It sounds a little better. I want an MP3 player that can output at stereo levels (and let the amp to the rest), support open formats, and have easy to use physical buttons. Also stereo recording capabilities would be nice, as well as DJ playback controls.