Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
Sony updates their flash models’ names to something humans can remember: about freakin’ time. So now:
NW-E407 → Walkman Core
NW-E307 → Walkman Circ
NW-E107 → Walkman Bean
I hope other companies follow that way too—if the product’s name is stupid, how are the people supposed to discuss it?
Head-Fi member carsncars posted a review of Sony’s NW-A3000. We’ve taken the most important bits, summed them up below and added a few of our remarks and observations in the mix.
Note that as the NW-A3000 shares many similarities with its smaller brother, the 6GB NW-A1000, you can apply most of the stuff that follows to [...]
Sony NW-A1000 eye-candy: a bunch of pictures of Sony’s latest 6GB portable audio player. It’s sleek & all, but a bit dark no? Anyway, read our presentation of the new WALKMAN lineup here. [via]
GYM, which stands for “Grab Your Music” allows you to browse, play and extract the tunes stored in your Network Walkman. Interface-wise it’s reminds me of a more plain iTunes minus the left “Source” column.The extraction thing is what’s the fuss is about here, since GYM seems to be the first piece of software that [...]
Sony’s latest Walkman debuts at lower price: all of the 512MB/1GB/2GB models cost at least ￥5,200 (~$45) lower than estimated. We presented the new WALKMAN line-up back in September.
The 2GB NW-A608 goes for ￥23,800-26,800 (~ $200-225) compared to Sony’s announced ￥32,000 (~ $270). A 2GB iPod nano costs from Apple and around ￥20,000-21,800 (~ [...]
The sleeping, bleeding giant who can’t sleep at night because of a four letter word, unveiled a new line-up of MP3 players under the name “WALKMAN” (yep, all capital letters). It’s 2 HDD-based (NW-A1000, NW-A3000) and 3 flash-based (NW-A608/7/5) MP3 players. And there’s a software-related surprise at the end of this post.
HDD-based MP3 players (Sony [...]