Sony's new Network Walkman-HD1 is being touted as the next iPod killer with a 30-hour battery and networkable interferface.
The Japanese electronics giant says the ‘credit card’ size device can store 3,000 more songs than Apple’s iPod, and will undercut the market leaders price tag.
The ‘Network Walkman-HD1′ will have a 20-gigabyte memory to store 13,000 four-minute songs, and is expected to cost Y53,000 (£268) in Japan and less than $400 in the US, where it will launch in mid-August.
Although the iPod has a 40-gigabyte memory- more than double that of the Walkman- it can only hold 10,000 songs. Sony says the NW-HD1 can pack more songs in a smaller storage space by using advanced compression technology.
Sony claims the device will deliver 30 hours of playback on a rechargeable battery, three times longer than the iPod, 
and is the smallest of its class.
“The Sony Walkman player was born out of a pure love of music and the understanding that people want to listen on their own terms,” said Todd Schrader, a vice president at Sony Electronics in the US “That’s why we are introducing a hard drive player and a flash media-based device with the kind of durability and long battery life that people have come to expect from a Walkman product.”
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