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Sony Touchscreen Walkman Specs Unveiled

Nwzx-1060 Back in January, I got a chance to check out the new Sony NWZ-1000 Touchscreen Walkman at CES in Las Vegas.  Unfortunately, and much to my consternation, it was locked under a glass housing and the Sony rep didn't have much in the way of detailed specifications.  While I have yet to actually play with one, Sony has released more details about the NWZ-1000 family of players.

The 3-inch touch-enabled OLED display has a 432 x 240 WQVGA resolution, and the unit will play WMV, MPEG-4, and H.264 video formats.  Sony's new Walkman also supports music encoded in MP3, WMA, and AAC formats, but omits the lossless FLAC format that has become popular with audiophiles.  Potential buyers will have their choice of 16GB or 32GB solid state drives for storage.  Other bells and whistles include Wi-Fi support, automatic podcast downloading, direct YouTube access, an FM tuner, S-master digital audio amplification, and digital noise cancellation capability with the bundled headphones.  According to the spec sheet, the NWZ-1000 series also appears to support direct Drag-and-Drop file transfers.  Battery life is rated at 33 hours for music playback and 9 hours for video use.  We're still waiting for an official release date; however European readers can preorder the 16GB or 32GB Touchscreen Walkman from Amazon.co.uk right now.

--Jon Dale

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