Sony's S-series Walkman is their new high-end digital audio amateur that is not alone their slimmest amateur to date, but has alive babble abandoning and the SensMe music advancement engine. Sony arranged 13.5mm EX headphones with the S-series players, as able-bodied as a canyon through cable that connects to an in-flight ball arrangement and uses the babble abandoning adequacy of the Walkman. In accession Sony appear their midrange E-series and entry-level B-series Walkman players.
The S-series has a 2-inch QVGA screen, that not alone plays aback WMA, AAC and MP3 audio formats, but aswell WMV and MP4 video. SensMe is featured on a Walkman amateur for the aboriginal time, ahead alone on Sony Ericsson Walkman-branded phones. For those unfamiliar, the SensMe engine analyzes a song for assorted qualities and maps it on an X-Y chart. From there you can baddest what blazon of music you wish to accept to according to "mood". The S-series is alone 7.5mm thick, has 40 hours of audio playback and 10 hours of video playback on a individual charge.
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The E-series is Sony's mid-range Walkman offering, which appearance the aforementioned audio and video playback the S-series offers, but lacks the babble abandoning and SensMe features. Unlike the S-series, the E comes in assorted colors, including black, red, dejected and pink. It has 45 hours of audio playback and 8 hours of video playback. The E-series is aswell accessible in 4 GB and 8 GB sizes.
The B-series is Sony's common band of Walkman players that alone play music. But in accession to audio playback, the B-series aswell serves as a articulation recorder and FM radio. It has 16 hours of array activity and aswell comes in assorted colors like the E-series. The B-series plugs anon into your USB anchorage for annoyance and bead book alteration and comes in 1 GB and 2 GB sizes.
All the players aloft are accepted to be accessible in September. The 4 GB S-series will amount $150, while the 8 GB will amount $180. The 4 GB E-series will amount $100 and the 8 GB $140. Lastly, the 1 GB B-series will advertise for $45 and the 2 GB will be $60. [Sony]
SONY RAISES THE CURTAIN ON NEW WALKMAN PLAYERS THAT DELIVER HIGH-QUALITY AUDIO AND VIDEO
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 28, 2008 – From noise-cancellation for common travelers to affordability for barter on a budget, Sony today apparent three new Walkman® players (series S, E and B) that accept something to action about every chump segment.
"Whether the fit and finish, the engineering or the affiliation of altered technologies, anniversary of these new alternation has altered credibility of appeal," said Mitch Li, artefact administrator for Walkman players in the Agenda Imaging and Audio Division at Sony Electronics. "These new Walkman players amuse the charge of consumers who don't wish to cede complete superior for the agenda music and MP3 experience."
S-Series Walkman Players
The top-end, format-friendly Walkman S-series broadens options for adequate tunes from assorted sources, including abounding download food and claimed music collections. The supplied Content Alteration software even simplifies "drag and drop" alteration of non-DRM music, videos, podcasts and playlists from online music casework to Walkman players. If you're brief your claimed accumulating of ripped advance from accession MP3 player, there's no charge to re-rip all your tunes from your CDs.
Support for accepted audio and video codecs is added because the S-series Walkman accessories play Windows Media Video (WMV) files with DRM, acceptance you to adore rights-protected movies and video clips from added media collections.
Additionally, the S-series Walkman players are the aboriginal MP3 players with Sony's SensMe™ Channels function, which automatically creates channels that can adjust with a user's preferences. Based on Sony's SensMe Channels function, the S-series players assay a user's music accumulating and advance channels based on anniversary song's speed, affection and rhythm. They actualize a best of 11 themed channels from upbeat pop to affecting ballads.
In-Flight Babble Cancellation
Whether commuting, aerial top or just alert to music at home, the new S-series Walkman players advice abate accomplishments babble while convalescent your all-embracing alert experience. The top-end S-series Walkman players affection chip alive babble abandoning with supplied 13.5mm EX babble abandoning headphones and an accent cable that extends the babble abandoning functionality of the device. On airplanes, travellers can – for the aboriginal time – affix the S-series amateur anon to a plane's audio video arrangement with the included accent cable and adore approved in-flight ball with the benefit of high-quality babble cancellation.
Just 7.5mm thin, the super-light S-series is the slimmest Walkman amateur in any of the new series. It has a bright, high-contrast 2-inch QVGA LCD awning (measured diagonally) that has an ultra-quick acknowledgment time, with bland playback at up to 30 frames per additional and selectable horizontal/vertical viewing. The interface can be alone with the user's best of 10 pre-installed wallpaper images or their admired agenda photo.
E-Series Walkman Players
The E-series combines high-quality video and audio achievement to actualize the absolute accent for adequate admired photos and video clips. Like the S-series, all E-series models are architecture friendly, calmly arena aback ripped advance from your claimed music collection, music abundance downloads and rights-managed video clips. Non-DRM files can be transferred by "drag and drop" from online music casework to Walkman players.
Support for accepted audio and video codecs is added because the E-series Walkman players can aswell abutment Windows Media Video (WMV) with DRM, acceptance rights-protected movies and video clips from added media collections.
B-Series Walkman Players
The affordable entry-level Walkman B-series amateur offers the high-quality complete that users accept appear to apprehend from Sony. The ultra-portable accessories can affix to your PC's USB anchorage for simple "drag and drop" book transfers. Like all added Walkman models, accessible abutment for Windows Media Audio (WMA) and MP3 codecs enables users to buy, archetype and administer music to fit their needs.
The beautiful architecture is added by an illuminator that pulses in time with the music if the bass button is pressed. The accent has an FM radio for adequate admired stations and a articulation recorder that's abundant for capturing memos, arcade lists or accidental thoughts while you're on the move.
Battery Life
The array activity is up to 40 hours of music playback for S-series, up to 45 hours for the E-series and up to 16 hours for the B-series. The array activity is up to 10 hours of video playback for S-series, up to 8 hours for the E-series. The array activity is aswell up to 30 hours of audio playback for the S-series if the noise-cancellation affection is activated. Actual array activity may alter aloft acceptance patterns, artefact settings, array and ecology conditions.
Sony's Accessible Belvedere Means Added Choice
The E- and S-series Walkman players abutment an accessible platform, accouterment added choices for downloading and managing music and video collections online. The accessories can abutment security-enhanced Windows Media Audio (WMA), as able-bodied as non-secure AAC, beeline PCM and MP3 music formats additional JPEG files for photos, in accession to the WMV with DRM, AVC (H.264/AVC) Baseline Profile and MPEG-4 video codecs.
Pricing and Availability
The S-series of Walkman babble abandoning video MP3 players appear in two altered accumulator capacities in black:
* The NWZ-S736F has about 4GB of centralized accumulator and will amount about $150.
* The NWZ-S738F has about 8GB of centralized accumulator and will amount about $180.
The E-series of Walkman video MP3 players will be accessible in the afterward configurations:
* The NWZ-E436F comes in black, red, pink, blue, has about 4GB of centralized accumulator and costs about $100.
* The NWZ-E438F comes in black, red, pink, has about 8GB of centralized storage, and costs about $140.
The B-series of Walkman MP3 players appear in two altered capacities and four colors:
* The NWZ-B133F amateur has about 1GB of centralized storage; comes in black, red and dejected and will amount about $45.
* The NWZ-B135F amateur has about 2GB of centralized storage; comes in black, red and blush and will amount about $60.
Presales accept amorphous for the new Walkman models online at www.sonystyle.com/walkman and at Sony Style stores. The players will be accessible in September beyond the country at aggressive abject exchanges and at accustomed dealers nationwide.
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