Tag: WALKMAN

After 31 years and over 200 million units sold, Sony is officially putting the cassette model Walkman out to pasture. Introduced in 1979, the portable tape player defined the following 10-plus years of mobile music playback. It was even a leader in the era of optical media, with its Walkman line of portable CD players eventually known as Discman. But in the era of the iPod, the brand name has ...

Later this month, Sony will release a new Walkman speaker system that fits into a car's cup holder and looks a lot like a coffee thermos. According to Engadget, the RDP-NWV500 is fitted with two-way speakers that will blast 16 watts of Walkman power at 360 degrees inside your car. The device plugs right into your car's cigarette lighter, instead of using an internal battery. There are two ways to ...

In a sure attempt to make us all feel prematurely old, BBC Magazine has announced that today is the 30th anniversary of the Sony Walkman. If that fact alone doesn't have you clamoring for the prune juice, freelance BBC writer and Scottish 13-year-old Scott Campbell's retro-review of the classic gadget surely will. BBC Magazine asked the Aberdeenshire student to carry the "cumbersome" gadget ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Sony_Walkman_with_3_OLED_Display'; Just as rumored, Sony's indeed showing up at this year's CES with a touchscreen Walkman, the NWZ-X1000. Front and center is a beautiful 3-inch touchscreen OLED display, which means lower power consumption and a wider color gamut than a traditional LCD, and Sony also worked in Wi-Fi and headphone-independent noise ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Sony_s_long_awaited_touchscreen_Walkman_finally_revealed'; Sony's Walkman series of media players has done its best to keep stride, stuffing in new features and design refinements over the years, but touchscreen-dominated players are clearly in vogue, and it looks like the company is finally ready to break down and get touchable. According to the Sony ...

Thanks to the iPod's success, and Sony's bumbling, the legendary Walkman brand has seen its prominence in the marketplace diminish, but don't ring the death knell yet. Today, Sony started selling two new Walkman models that offer increased flexibility over previous models and are the first ones to offer video. Sure, it's almost two years since Apple first launched video capability on the iPod, ...

Well, Sony sure had a whole lot of new products up its sleeve. The most exciting are the two new high-end additions to its Walkman phone line, the W910 and W960. The W910 is a nice looking slider with a high-speed 3G HSDPA data connection (so look for it on AT&T). The phone only packs 40-megabytes of internal storage, but comes packed with a one-gigabyte micro Memory Stick for storing your ...