Sony Walkman Touch

Sony

touch

By: Grahm Skee on December 12, 2008 6:17 PM

Sick of all the Zune Touch rumors? Here is another touch based player, though this time it’s not rumor. Sonyinsider reports on this player with some mock up product shots showing a device like the Cowon S9 or the Samsung P2 (or the upcoming P3). This PMP will be unveiled during this CES 2009 with capacities of 16GB and 32GB. It will also have Wi-Fi and a high contrast OLED, likely to be 480x278.

The player will have resemble past Sony UIs and will allow you to click on an artist and watch Youtube videos by them over the Wi-Fi connection. It will also have podcast downloads and access to Crackle (Sony’s video site) video feeds. Additionally, a search function is there so you can download and purchase music from Amazon directly.

The one thing that caught my attention was the “S-Master digital amplifier”, this could only bring good news to us more-expensive-than-the-player headphone toting audio junkies.

We will be front and center to give you the low down on this touch Walkman at CES 2009.

Comments

d0e on December 12, 2008 6:43 PM

FIRST!

Fuzzypits on December 12, 2008 6:57 PM

Wow nice man. I'm happy for you. On topic, it looks very good, I'm excited to see how it fairs against the S9, and P2/P3.

Jessipoo on December 12, 2008 7:52 PM

I hope it's in the advanced stages of design and all and there will be a working prototype.

I am interested in this one, though I am not crazy about the walkman UI and interface and stuff...

was looking out for the s9 which is finally coming out (though not in N.A.) and I knew about the P3 (but it did not excite me) but the this Walkman touch seems like a worthy S9/itouch competitor and has the OLED screen and new audio technology.... I might've just changed my mind about the S9 to finally get a Walkman (lost faith in walkman after my W810 cellphone SUCKED for music)

TheDarkSide on December 12, 2008 8:46 PM

Here I was, all stoked for the Cowon S9, and Sony had to go and do this,.......... NOW, I'll have to wait and get this instead. Sweet!!!

jjrosaria on December 13, 2008 12:58 AM

whoa this Is nice Keep it up sony... If it has the same great Sony SQ and probably a stronger amp (pls sony).. This IMO whould be the best mp3 player yet.. First S9 then walkman touch.. Man I cant wait for these players to get on the market..

beteks on December 13, 2008 7:18 AM

whoa that's a nice looking player. i was leaning towards the samsung p2 but this sony looks pretty good so far.

Arturo Kollberg on December 14, 2008 8:03 AM

Be sure to tell us if sony still thinks having a DRM-loader like WMP is the way to go for their devices. I'll start to consider sony products when they'll learn how to do UMS.

ascariss on December 14, 2008 10:50 PM

You do not need to use WMP to transfer files over to any new walkman.

RedSky on December 14, 2008 11:04 PM

I bet by the time they actually release this people will be wanting a 64 GB version.

Zizone on December 17, 2008 11:24 PM

I just so happened to be that "more-expensive-than-the-player headphone" audio junky.
Very excited about the "S-Master digital amplifier."

humersimpson on December 19, 2008 2:27 PM

I hope Sony finally jumps on the bandwagon to allow memory upgrades using either micro SD or micro MS. That is one of their biggest weaknesses in the MP3 player market, IMHO.

Xbot on January 16, 2009 9:38 PM

Cant wait to buy one of those..

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