Sony Unveils 3 Walkman Video MP3 Players

All three NWZ-S710F, NWZ-A720 and NWZ-A820 Walkman players come with Sony's EX series in-ear-buds with 13.5 mm drivers that passively block out ambient noise. The devices have a standard user interface and the video players have a large QVGA LCD screen that displays video at 30 frames per second.



The battery life is up to 33 hours of music playback for NWZ-S710F models and up to 36 hours for NWZ-A720 and NWZ-A820 models, as claimed by the company.

The compact and lightweight NWZ-S710 players have a 1.8-inch QVGA (320 by 240 pixels) LCD screen and include an FM tuner with 30 presets that make it convenient to listen to the radio on the go.

The NWZ-A720 series has a bigger 2.4-inch QVGA (320 by 240 pixels) LCD screen. With the same look and feature set as the NWZ-A720 series, the NWZ-A820 and NWZ-A820K series adds Bluetooth technology. This will enable streaming music from the MP3 device to headphones or other devices with Bluetooth technology.

Targeted at fitness enthusiasts, the NWZ-A820K Walkman player comes bundled with both the EX-series earbuds and the DR-BT21G Bluetooth wireless technology enabled headphones. This headset has built-in remote control features that play, pause and forward tracks.

"Achieving the highest audio quality is one of our top priorities when designing our players," said Steve Haber, senior vice president of the Digital Imaging and Audio Division at Sony Electronics.

These devices also support A2DP and support security-enhanced Windows Media Audio (WMA), as well as non-secure AAC, linear PCM and MP3 music formats, plus JPEG files for photos, in addition to the AVC (H.264/AVC) Baseline Profile and MPEG-4 video codecs.

The NWZ-S716F comes in silver, red and black with 4GB for $150, while the NWZ-S718F player has8GB of internal storage and comes in black for $200.

The 4 GB NWZ-A726 player comes in black and pink and costs $150, while the 8 GB NWZ-A728 player comes in black and pink and costs $200. The 16 GB NWZ-A729 player comes in black, and costs $300.

The NWZ-A828K comes in black, has 8GB of internal storage, and costs $270, while the NWZ-A829 comes in black has 16GB of internal storage, and costs $320.