Sony Walkman takes on iPod
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Sony is finally out with their first direct assault on the famed Apple iPod digital music player. As reported earlier, Sony has gone ahead and released their first MP3 supported Walkman.
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Sony has seemingly changed its mind on the MP3 music format, deciding that all new players will be able to play MP3s. Before this decision all music players made by Sony used only the company&#39;s proprietary ATRAC format, limiting users&#39; choices somewhat.
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InfoWorld - If you can&#39;t beat them, join them? Sony&#160;is getting into the iPod accessory market with the U.S. launch of an iPod docking station.
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is to launch music-playing mobiles under the Walkman brand.
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Eighteen months after rival Apple Inc. raised the bar in the music player market with its video iPod, Sony Corp. will launch its first digital video Walkman.
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Sony says its digital music players will now play MP3 music tracks, and not just its own format.
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Electronics giant Sony has reversed its position on the formats playable by its range of digital music players. The company has announced its new devices will now be able to play music tracks in the MP3 format
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Some outlets are reporting that Sony has decided to add native mp3 support to its digital music players, but the electronics giant says it has not yet made a final decision.
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Sony executives yesterday said they &quot;fell asleep&quot; in the portable music market - but the company is awake now. Sony plans to improve its position in the market by next year, promising a range of products that aim at Apple&#39;s iPod.
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Apple has unveiled an iPod with a photo display function aimed at maintaining the company&#39;s lead in the market for digital music players.
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Hammered by iPod, Sony will retool, adding native MP3 support to some digital music players by next summer. Cnet -- SAN FRANCISCO--Sony Electronics missed an opportunity when it nodded off with the emergence
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Long after the advent of the video iPod, Sony has finally responded with a video Walkman, which it will release in April.
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A quarter century after Sony Corp. first shipped the legendary Walkman personal stereo, the electronics giant is launching a high-tech model that aims to topple Apple Computer Inc.
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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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Noise-suppressing headphones included Sony will next week launch its latest Flash-based digital audio player, if online retailers' listings of the as-yet-unannounced Walkman NWS700 series devices are anything to go by. The pitch for the product line will centre on its inclusion of "noise-cancelling" headphones, a three-line colour display and 1-4GB of storage capacity.â¦
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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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SAN JOSE, California Steve Jobs has promised that Apple Computer&#39;s iPod will become &quot;the Walkman of the 21st century,&quot; but for that to happen, Jobs must do what he failed to do in the 1980s: prevail over his old nemesis, Bill Gates, who sees entertainment