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Sony NWZ-A820 Gets European Price and Release Date

By: Andreas Ødegård on February 22, 2008 3:20 AM

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A few days ago, Sony announced it's NW-A820 WalkMan player for release in Asia in March. It's European/US brother, the NWZ-A820, is now available for preorder on Sony Style for a few countries like Germany and Sweden. As expected, it doesn't seem to be listed with noise cancelling features like its Asian brother has, but on the positive side it's bundled with decent quality IEMs - most likely the same MDR-EX082 as the NWZ-A810 comes with.

The bad news is that at the time of this writing, the 16GB seem to only be available bundled with a pair of bluetooth headphones, while the 8GB and 4GB versions are available both with and without the bluetooth headphones. The player ships in April and can be pre-ordered now for 169€ (4GB), 219€ (4GB bundle), 219€ (8GB), 269€ (8GB bundle) or 319€ (16GB bundle) - all prices taken from Sony Style Germany.

[ Sony Style Europe via Tech Digest]

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Comments

nywytboy68 on February 22, 2008 2:48 PM

Lets see,...... sold my D2, Zune 30 will be gone by weekend (I'll actually miss the zune) and waiting so patiently. May not be 32gb but settling never seemed so worth while. My NWZ-S618 will have BIG BROTHER home hopefully before the summer vacation. Damn,.. only 2 sites I actually like anymore are this (abi ROCKS!!!) & Dapreview.com and I'm not really caring about cnet in the US anymore.

SwayDizzle on February 22, 2008 3:22 PM

hey can some1 plz tell me what "noise cancelling", what does it do? i shure hope this has better sound than A81x, not that it has bad sound, on the contrary it has excellent sound, though i wouldn't mind if it got better =P

EnzoTen (Grahm) on February 22, 2008 4:39 PM

From what GenerationMP3.com has told me the sound quality is not as good as the A810. Ill get my hands on one as soon as i can to give you the scoop.

SwayDizzle on February 22, 2008 4:41 PM

damn plz tell this isn't true, i was really looking forward for this mp3 =(

dead7ree on February 22, 2008 4:49 PM

sound quality is as good a A810 series. It also has built in Noisecanceller, blutooth, and it can also record video without using PC.

SwayDizzle on February 22, 2008 4:52 PM

the article sais: As expected, it doesn't seem to be listed with noise cancelling features like its Asian brother has :/

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