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Sony's First OLED Walkman Gets UK Price |
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Written by wbg friend
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Thursday, 26 February 2009 03:00 |
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Authors: We saw the first slinky Sony Walkman with a touchscreen OLED display at CES last month and it was indeed impressive. Now, it's been priced for the UK but, before you think this latest wannabe 'iPod Touch killer' will save you a bit of cash, forget it. This is Sony, after all, and the pricing is on a level with the Touch at £216 for a 16GB model and £283 for the 32GB model. Still, it is pretty enough and that 3in OLED display is very sweet, despite losing 0.5in to the Touch's touch LCD display. Formats supported include AAC and H.264 and the music player boasts noise cancellation technology and an S-Master digital amplifier. You can expect audio playback to be solid as a rock too thanks to the Walkman's pedigree and, unlike the Touch, there's in-built FM radio. There's Wi-Fi for keeping tabs on your social networking status, watching YouTube vids, tuning into BBC's iPlayer and checking emails. There are those anti-Apple shoppers who will no doubt take an interest in these players but we can't help thinking that if Sony tried, just once, to offer the X series at a price even £10-20 lower than the iPod Touch it would interest a lot more people. Delivery is slated 'loosely' for next month.-Martin Lynch [Play.com] iPod Touch Sony MP3 player
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