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Sony NW-A800 Video Walkman Series

By: Jenn K. Lee on February 17, 2007 12:46 AM

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Those Sony Video Walkman rumors are really picking up speed. We found out nearly a week ago that when it's announced next month, it will essentially be Sony's answer to the iPod nano (except with stellar battery life for video playback). And now comes news and a picture of the upcoming player, which has apparently been dubbed the NW-A800.

Sony Germany has a teaser image of the new Walkman and a live countdown on its website that basically confirms the gist of all the rumors. Exactly what will happen when the timer expires on March 1st is unknown; we're hoping for an actual release, but maybe it'll just be an official announcement and some information about availability.

And is it just us, or does the player look a lot like the Walkman phone? Different buttons, of course, but still pretty similar.

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Comments

saminthehat on February 17, 2007 4:56 AM

Hmmm, not pretty.
Oh and yeah I no Atrac's good, I had it on my Walkman and my MD player, it's just no-one else uses it and a lot of the Sony features depend on it.

Deso on February 17, 2007 8:06 AM

nw-hd5h forever.
Re-release that one with video capabilities and it could be the n1 player in the world.

Atrax on February 17, 2007 9:58 PM

That player looks like shit. I'm sorry but it just looks shit. Sony usually make awesome looking players but that is retarded.

My friend has a walkman phone, one of the really good ones, now THEY are cool, but that is just retarded.

ungraphic on February 18, 2007 3:47 AM

Im sure someone at sony has read the massive amounts of praise the NW-HD5 got, and flak. So why hasnt sony taken initiative and done something to improve on an already great mp3 player?

My theory:

Sony is stupid.

Fine-_-;; on February 18, 2007 3:43 PM

ungraphic//

I agree

iii on February 21, 2007 12:32 PM

well... it supports more than atrac including AAC, MP3, WMA, linear PCM.

Amber on March 7, 2007 10:14 AM

I think this is pretty cool. I used to have a SE phone and it was FAB-U-LOUS! I lost the darned thing in Dublin (grrr) so I may just get this instead of an iPod!

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