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We didn’t have any doubts about Mickey Mouse insipiration for Sony’s S-Series Walkman players but I guess that was not enough as Sony has strengthened its affiliation further by offering engraving of Mickey and Minnie Mouse to Japanese S-Series (S640/S640K/S740/S740K) buyers. The cartoon engraving can be coupled with a personalized message imprinted on the back. [...]

 
Whenever a new PMP comes to the market it is more than often compared with the iPod range. Although this holds true that iPods have created the portable music and video revolution, but there are other PMPs that also offer good sound and video.
Today, we review the recently launched Sony’s E-Series Walkman player, the NWZ-E440 [...]

 
Sony introduced a trio of Walkman players yesterday in Japan. It’s the S640 and S740 from the S-Series and super thin A840 from the A-Series. The S640 and S740 are similar in features except for couple of facts like S740 comes in 8GB/16GB/32GB storage choices as compared to S640’s 8 and 16GB SKUs and S740 [...]

 
The details are thin right now but it looks Sony’s Mickey Mouse-esque range will get a new addition soon. The S740 was spotted at Sony Dealer Convention in Japan that will come in multitude of colors with some changes in design, 2 plus inch screen and storage capacity of 8 or 16GB.
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Sony has got a reason to celebrate. The pioneers of portable music who sells Walkman branded players, have for the first time in Japan surpassed sales of Apple’s iPod in more than four years. This verdict comes from an electronic research firm, BCN who claimed that the Walkman players share for the week ended on [...]

 
After being sighted couple of times in the past few weeks, Sony has made its S540 Walkman player official. The first Walkman with integrated speakers, S540 packs a 2.4-inch LCD, FM Radio, voice recorder, Digital Linear Phase Speaker System to enhance loudspeaker music quality, iTunes support and video codec support comprising of H.264/AVC/MP4/WMV formats.
S540’s [...]

 
If E-Series Walkman players were any indication, Sony is quite liking the Mickey Mouse-esque controls and will be integrating in future Walkmans too. Pictured above is what is to be believed as an updated Walkman player from the S-Series. Wide-screen, two big speakers, different color choices and the usual PMP goodness makes us interested in [...]

 
Sony unveiled two new Walkman players for budget conscious music enthusiasts. The E440 Series players are slim and light Walkman PMPs aimed at the first time digital media adopters. The player comes in a thin shell (just 9.3mm) and features a 2-inch QVGA LCD screen, Clear Audio technology, Equalizer, FM Radio tuner and recorder and [...]

 
Sony’s W Series Walkman players have finally made an entry to the Indian retail market. It’s a nice little compact music player that takes the pain of sorting out the wires because the earphones and the player are attached by a single wire that easily adjusts on the back of the head.
The player comes in [...]

 
Sony Ericsson announced two new phones for those seeking a cheap yet quality music player or a handy video recorder with decent functions. First up is the W205 phone which will be available in Q3 and brings the goodness of Walkman features. On the music front, it also has a FM Radio, stereo Bluetooth and [...]

 
Sony Ericsson announced their most affordable Walkman phone, the W395 (Yao). The phone aims to give music enthusiasts top quality music in return of a small investment. It has the user friendly Walkman software which comes with the features like TrackID and PlayNow, dedicated music keys, FM Radio, loudspeaker and a bundled 1GB memory card [...]

 
Looks like iPod Touch will have to face a lot of competition now. Another in the line to compete with Apple’s touchscreen offering is Sony’s X-Series of Walkman players. The players, NWZ-X1050/1060 boast a 3-inch wide OLED touchscreen as well as dedicated media buttons to ease the navigation. Apart from the goodness of Walkman features, [...]

 
Sony Ericsson announced triads of phones, two belonging to the Walkman while the remaining one from the Cyber-shot category. The lone Cyber-shot revealed today is C510, which Sony Ericsson claims to be the cheapest Cyber-shot phone from them. The phone will feature a 3.2-megapixel camera sensor along with the different Cyber-shot features like face detection, [...]

 
Sony Ericsson was one of the major sponsors of the MTV Europe Music Awards and their marketing team found it apt to launch a new music phone at a music-centric event. They announced W705 Walkman phone which is said to have the best sound quality in the market. It is a native Walkman phone with [...]

 
Better late than never! Sony Corp. introduces a new program to entice Walkman accessory manufacturers. Under this licensing program, the manufacturers need to comply with the quality standards of Sony and in return they get a full disclosure of WM-PORT specifications to manufacture exclusive accessories and also a shiny badge (pictured) saying “Designed for Walkman” [...]