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Sony Walkman S-Series: cheaper and more format-friendly than iPod nano
Our recent post about the upcoming iPod nano attracted some of the craziest comments we’ve ever seen, many of which must have oozed from the steaming cracks of some hellish Internet from an alternate universe.
We feel your pain, fellow miscreants. So in the interest of being fair and balanced ®, here we bring you one of Sony’s new Walkman players, the S-series that gives you iTunes-free music and video, as well as in-flight noise-canceling earbuds. Sony calls it format-friendly, playing lots of file formats including the DRM-infested Windows Media Video (WMV).
It’s small, too. At 7.5mm thick, it’s about the same thickness as the iPod nano, but its 2-inch screen is too tiny. Even so, it can still play back postage-stamp-sized video at 30 frames per second. Its price is relatively minuscule as well, coming in at an iPod-identical $150 for the 4GB model and a $20-cheaper-than-iPod $180 for its 8GB bro. We like.
Via Sony
By IPukeOFTEN at 2:02 PM ON 08/28/08
This does not redeem you Charles White.
By Boxerfanatic at 2:14 PM ON 08/28/08
Not bad...
I still like Apple's design better, but when will Apple get the hint to put a radio receiver in it? not everywhere has wifi when you are on walkabout, and radio is free. There are more transceivers in some ipods and iphones than ever before, anyway... why not an AM/FM receiver, let alone an HD Radio receiver to be future compatible.
Radio is the one advantage the sony does have.
By IPUKEDAILY at 2:29 PM ON 08/28/08
Of course you like apples design better boxfan. That is probably due to the fact that you wear clownshoes.
The last time I checked, FM radio blows chunks; and the AM band requires a larger antenna and larger coils/capacitors.
By borgman at 3:24 AM ON 10/11/08
Does it play ogg, flac, mp4a and ape encoded files? It'll balance out if it supports open source audio codecs even if it doesn't play am radio? Even the SE R300 phone the size of a T610 plays AM and FM but only suppports 8mb. What is the world plays on 8mb?
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