Sony Japan today announced the NW-X1000 series [JP], consisting of two Walkman, the NW-X1050 with 16GB internal memory and the 32GB NW-X1060. The so-called X-Series was introduced to the general public for the first time back in January (during the CES 2009).
Both models will be available in Japan from April 25 (in black and red). Sony hasn’t said yet when American and Europeans will be able to lay their hands on the devices. In Japan, the 16GB model will cost $400, while the 32GB version will be priced at $500.
The Walkman comes with a cool 3-inch OLED touchscreen (240×432 resolution), WiFi (IEEE 802.11b/g), YouTube support, noise cancellation function and a One-Seg digital TV tuner (that only makes sense in Japan and Brazil). You can play your audio files as MP3/HE-AAC/AAC/WMA/linear PCM/ATRAC/ATRAC Advanced Lossless and video in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and MPEG-4/WMV formats.
Sized at 97.4×52.5×10.5mm, it’s considerably smaller than an iPod Touch (see the picture above).
Watch it in action in the video below.
Via Impress [JP]
So its a touch screen multimedia player with a HOME button on the bottom? I guess sony’s copy machine is better then micro$oft’s.
Did she get that shirt at Fred’s?
Firstly… too expensive.
But i like the fact that it has external Play Control buttons. The lack of which drives me nuts on my iPhone. I hate having to:
1. take iPhone out of my pocket
2. press “home/on” button
3. slide to unlock
4. enter passcode
5. open iTunes
6. press “next”
SIX STEPS … Just to go forward a track!
This is one of the reasons why I always use my Shuffle for music when I’m on the move. (The other being battery suckage, of course.)
I think you forgot a few steps:
1. take iphone out of pocket
->2. take iphone out of iphone sock
3. press “home/one” button
4. slide to unlock
5. enter passcode
->6. flick to the next screen (repeat this step till you get to the itune page”
7. open itunes
8. hit “now playing button”
9. press “next”
Or you can just use the button on the earphone:
1. press button once to skip to next song.
While I agree that’s a pain in the ass, I have a suspicion that that’s part of Apple’s marketing plan. If you have to keep the iPod/iPhone out of your pocket, in the open, people know you’ve bought it and that you’re using it. If you can control everything from inside your jacket, no one knows it’s a cool-looking Apple gadget hooked up to your headphones.
There’s a quicker way of skipping to the next song!
1. Whilst your track is playing, double-click the home button
2. Hit Next
3. Hit sleep
Thanks for the tip RickyC, i had no clue
My earphones have no buttons.
But good call on the “iPhone sock”… except it’s more like Pull pocket inside out while struggling to get rubber-protected iPhone out of pocket for 3 minutes. (The reason I went sockless. And subsequently the reason i have a smashed touchscreen.)
Are they still using SonicStage as their music management software?
I’ve always liked Sony’s hardware, but their SW makes their products unusable.
Nope it’s simple drag and drop now. They haven’t used sonicstage since their very first video walkman, I believe.