At the artist heavy Canvas @ Sony 2009 event in Japan the W Custom series of Walkmans and headphones has been unveiled.
While they might not be for public consumption, the designs from Aki Miyajima, Riya and Takashi Saito are pretty nice.
See the full range  here.
[Via JournalduGeek & Sony Japan]
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Teen favourite (maybe?) Hannah Montana, aka Miley Cyrus has got her own branded Sony Walkman E-Series out at the end of the week.
It’s a Sony & Disney collaboration and only a true cynic could say that the jewelry box gimmick’s not just a little bit nice, right?
It also comes with a branded case and some [...]

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At CEATEC 09 Live in Japan today Sony displayed their latest ideas including their Flex OLED panel display.
The concept items included a Notebook, a watch and an MP3 player and also on display was a fully finctional display playing GT videos whilst bending continously.
The highlight of the display was certainly the Sony Vaio concept machine [...]

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At a glance you’d be forgiven for mistaking the new PXP-2000 for a newly released PSP Go.
The clone is infact a pretty faithful copy in terms of looks.
Hardward and software-wise it supports a whole host of video and audio codecs and in terms of gams it’s a NES emulator and supports Gameboy and SFC games.
At [...]

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Whilst Japan and the west get Sony’s pricy, flashy products such as the new NW-A840 Walkman, China buyers are privy to their straight-forward media players, the latest being the PMX-M89.
It might not have the same glitz or wow factor as its western counterparts but the PMX-M89 holds its own with a 4.3 inch 480 x [...]

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Sony aren’t holding back in their PMPs as yet another Walkman is announced.
The NW-A840 is a skinny 7.2mm thick, has a 2.8 inch OLED display and up to 64GB of flash storage.
Also onboard is 720 x 480 resolution video out, digital noise cancellation and a battery life of 29 hours of continuous music or 9 [...]

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Sony’s latest venture into PMPs has been tried and tested by Engadget and has received a positive, if a little tepid, response.
While the 8GB and 16GB players sound impressed and the small 2.4 inch proved adequate, there’s something a little underwealming about the response.
See for yourself at the link below.
[Via Engadget]

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The accidental listing of the Sony S-Series Walkman on French retail site Materiel has shed some more light on the specs and looks.
The 8GB NWZ-S544 and 16GB MWZ0S545 feature a 2.4-inch QVGA widescreen display, stereo speakers, a microphone, FM tuner, a Li-ion battery that offers up to 42 hours or audio or 6.5 hours of [...]

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New mics aren’t scarce but few are quite as interesting looking as Logitec’s LIC-WMREC03P (for Sony Walkmans) and LIC-iREC03P (for iPods).
The speaker crossing is apparently the XY technique of placing two mics together pointing in different directions, giving excellent field separation while eliminating phase problems.
The speakers have a frequency response of 20Hz to 16kHz, [...]

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The latest in the Xperia range has had its inner workings revealed and by the looks of things they’re pretty juicy. It sports Android, a 4 inch 800×400-pixel touchscreen, an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash, VGA video recording, image stabilization, smile shutter, face detection, MP3, AAC and eAAC+ audio format support, email, AGPS and [...]

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