Tag archive: NW-A

Flash-based players mightbe all the rage, but maybe tha just makes the hard-drive players cheaper and cooler. Sony has officially started taking pre-orders its NW-A1200 hard-drive based Walkmans in the U.S., sporting 8 GB capacities, two colors (pink and violet), and very swanky 1.5-inch Organic Electroluminescent Displays (OLED) which makes player functions and track information appear to float just over the surface of the device. The… Read More

It's a funny thing: Sony essentially invented the portable music market in the mid-70s with the original Walkman, a headphone-sporting portable cassette player. (Remember cassettes?) Now the portable music market is all about digital music players, and Sony's been far behind Apple's popular iPod in every market save Japan, where the company has just barely knocked the iPod shuffle to second place. But Sony doesn't… Read More