The Sony Walkman X-Series and what it means to the company
After years of struggling to get back a part of the Portable Music Industry which Apple stole away with its iPod line, Sony, the pioneers of this market for 30 years have finally come out with a solution to getting back to iPod: The Sony Walkman X-Series. The player brings in the technologies Sony has been investing on for years like OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), active Noise Cancelling etc. The 3-inch OLED Touch Screen is alot sharper than competing models and offers amazing and vibrant colors. As part of the package comes Sony premium earphones which feature built in microphones to help the Active Noise Cancelling to work. These alone cost a mint and are very high quality. This is different from Apple's idea to package 3rd class earphones with their offerings. The Walkman player features Wi-Fi with a web browser and most importantly a Slacker app which lets you stream free songs to your device and listen to them on the go. With that there is also a Youtube player on board. The interface is very streamlined and having used the player i can say that the tilting feature of the album artworks is very cool and nicely implemented. The player's audio quality will shorely leave Apple in the dust and although its design could be alot more stylish, I think the player looks good like it is. We will have to wait till June 20 to see the public reaction to this product and if it can stand a hair to Apple's iPod Touch and its amazingly implemented App Store.
