Sony has announced its new Walkman F800 music player, an Android-powered challenger to Apple’s iPod touch.
“Announced alongside several more basic Walkman music players, the F800 takes some of the Xperia smartphone range’s style, throws out the phone functionality, and concentrates on audio prowess instead,” reports Digital Trends.
The F800 features a 3.5-inch screen, Tegra 2 dual-core processor, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a pre-installed maps app, and direct access to the Google Play Store. It supports a variety of audio and video codecs including MP3, WMA, HE-AAC, PCM, MPEG4, AVC, WMV and FLAC.
“Sony has packed in its S-Master MX Digital amplifier, Clear Audio technology and the little device has an X-Loud speaker system too,” notes the post.
The new player uses Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which should give it an edge over Samsung’s Galaxy Player 3.6 that still uses Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
“On the whole, that’s a decent and somewhat original set of features for a Walkman player,” reports CNET in a related post. “Yet, at $269 (or $299, depending on the memory size) the F800 doesn’t have enough on paper to entice anyone with an existing music player to make the switch. The promised battery life (20 hours of audio playback and 4.5 hours for video) is just average, and with just 16GB and 32GB version available, Sony didn’t push the boundaries of capacity.”
Sony also unveiled the E470 player, targeting a more cost-conscious market. The E470 is Sony’s slimmest Walkman to date, and will run $79 for the 4GB model, $89 for 8GB, and $109 for the 16GB version.
Sony has announced its new Walkman F800 music player, an Android-powered challenger to Apple’s iPod touch.
No Comments Yet
You can be the first to comment!
Leave a comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.