Sony takes on iPod Mini
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Sony has launched two flash memory digital music players that carry the Walkman brand in Europe. The Walkman NW-E99 and NW-E95 take aim at rival Apple&#39;s iPod Minis.
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Awarding iPod nano an Excellent 8.0 rating, Donald Bell  notes that âthe shape may have changed, but Appleâs relentless attention to detail remains. The third generation of the iPod Nano provides loads of entertainment for a down-to-earth price.â He calls iPod nano âone of the smallest, thinnest, and most exquisitely designed MP3 players on the market.â Its â2-inch color screen packs a dense, crisp 320x240 video resolution that looks richer and brighter than that of any iPod to date.â And âat less than $200, the Nano offers one of the richest user experiences weâve seen on an MP3 player.â
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Company's new player offers 25 percent bigger hard drive and weighs less than the iPod Mini--for the same price.
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Sony is considering making digital music devices that play MP3 song files, the consumer electronics group said yesterday. The move could mean a major shift for the company as the creator of the Walkman has
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If we don&#39;t know anything about Apple&#39;s next version of the iPod, one reasonable certainty is that it will be smaller and more robust, as Hitachi has just made the hard drives used 10 per cent smaller with the use of a new connector.
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Juliana Sasaki did not bother checking out Sony&#39;s digital music player in Tokyo before buying her iPod mini. &quot;I knew Sony and other companies had MP3 players, but they can&#39;t beat the mini,&quot; says Sasaki, 23, a language teacher.
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A new generation of smaller, sleeker and cheaper MP3 players from the likes of Sony, Rio, Creative and Rave MP are hitting the market this fall, and they all have Apple
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Announcing it may soon compete directly with Apple's iPods and iTunes, Sony says it's looking into producing its own movie download service and products.
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Sony ha presentato il suo primo lettore portatile Walkman compatibile con Mp3, nel tentativo di recuperare il terreno perduto nella sfida a iPod di Apple . Il primo produttore al mondo
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Sony&#39;s apparently gotten the message: Some of its new MP3 player models will feature direct support for MP3 in addition to its proprietary ATRAC format.
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&#147;The Apple iPod mini, at $249, is my choice as 2004&#146;s hottest high-tech gadget,&#148; writes Mike Wendland in the Detroit Free Press. &#147;All of the iPods are awesome. But this little package, weighing in at 3.6 ounces, a half-inch thick and the size of a business card, is so slick and so sleek that all I can say is: Sweet &#133; And it delivers a sound quality so big and so pristine that it&#146;s hard to believe it&#146;s coming from something so tiny. It&#146;s cutting-edge, high-tech chicness.&#148; [Dec 10]
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(InfoWorld) - If you can't beat them, join them? SonyÂ is getting into the iPod accessory market with the U.S. launch of an iPod docking station. The CPF-IP001 will go on sale in the U.S. in March this year for about $250 and is already listed on the SonyStyle online shop. Users insert the iPod in a cradle in the center of the device and music can then be enjoyed through a pair of attached speakers. There's also a remote control so the iPod can be commanded from a distance. It's the first complete audio product from Sony exclusively for the iPod and the second with iPod connectivity. Last year Sony began offering an interface adapter that allows iPods to be connected to one of its car audio systems. The new product is similar to two that Sony has previously launched. The CPF-IX001 allows music to be streamed from a networked PC through the speakers and the CPF-NW001 offers a dock for Sony's Network Walkman players. Sony decided to develop an iPod version when taking into account the needs of users, said Masayo Endo, a spokeswoman for Tokyo-based Sony. The company, which lost its 20-year lead in the portable music market to Apple, has been battling to surpass the iPod's seemingly impenetrable hold on the market with new versions of its Walkman players but to date hasn't managed to come close to regaining the top-spot.
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Apple announcement next week? Creative has pre-empted Apple's anticipated announcement of a widescreen iPod Nano with a similarly spec'd tiny media player of its own. The new Zen is also Creative's first device to support AAC-encoded songs.â¦
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Sony Corp (6758.T) unveiled its first MP3-compatible, hard disk Walkman music player on Tuesday in an attempt to recover ground lost to Apple Computer's  iPod.
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Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. said on Thursday it is mulling a major strategic shift to make digital music devices that play MP3 song files.
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This month you will be able to choose from four competitors to Apple's iPod Mini, courtesy of Dell, Rio Audio, Virgin Electronics and Creative. How do they compare?
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Taking us through the highlights of each of the new iPods, David Pogue (New York Times) anoints them âthe best players you can buy.â iPod touch, for example, offers âthe iPhoneâs spectacular widescreen video playback, wireless Wi-Fi Internet features and its now-famous two-finger touchscreen operating system.â And wireless access to iTunes:  âYou can browse or search the catalog, listen to 30-second samples, buy songs for $1 eachâand download them directly to the iPod.â These iPods, Pogue says, âare nearly impossible to beat; there are other 160-gigabyte multimedia players, for example, but theyâre much bigger and more expensive than the iPod classic. And if you do value things like beauty, software elegance and trouble-free computer integrationâwell, good luck resisting that new Nano.â