Sony Supports MP3 With New Flash Based Walkmans
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Sony launched two new flash-based music players that support the MP3 format for the first time, the first time for Sony, that is, which has heretofore relied solely on its own proprietary ATRAC3 format.
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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 AAPL.O  iPod.
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Sony's new "Elevated Standard" home audio/video receivers feature the mp3 player ports among other amenities.
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(InfoWorld) - Responding to demand for ultra-thin designs, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications has announced a new Walkman music phone -- its slimmest handset yet. The product is one of several announced Tuesday ahead of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona next week. The W880 packs music features into its 9.4 millimeter-thin mobile phone design: the handset comes preloaded with Walkman Player 2.0, Disc2Phone music management and TrackID music recognition applications. A 1GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) card, capable of storing up to 900 tunes, is included in the box. The handset also features a 1.8-inch QVGA, 262k TFT (thin-film transistors) display, a 2 megapixel camera and the Bluetooth Music Receiver MBR-100 system. This discreet accessory uses short-range wireless technology to stream music from the user's phone directly to a home or car stereo, using the phone as a remote control to alter the volume or skip through tracks. In addition, the phone provides a flight mode for use on airplanes and is equipped with a battery capable of playing music up to 20 hours or offering 6.5 hours of talk time. The W880 music phone is based on the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard and supports both the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and 3G (third-generation) technologies. It offers a range of communication services, such as a push e-mail, Web surfing and video streaming. Sony Ericsson will also provide a GSM variant of the Walkman music phone, the W88, without video telephony capability, for the Chinese market. A slightly larger Walkman phone, minus a few features, is the W610. The W880 music phone will be available in selected markets in the first quarter, with the W610 to follow in the second quarter. Prices were not available. Among the other new products is a series of low-end, easy-to-use handsets, which Sony Ericsson calls "candy bar" phones. The K200 phone has a camera and a central navigation key to give one-click access to key features. The K220, another camera phone, has an integrated FM radio, which can store up to 10 stations. The J110 and J120 phones, which lack a camera, offer large legible keys and easy navigation.
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IN A major strategic reversal, Sony plans to add support for MP3 music files to some of its portable music players. The shift to support the widely used MP3 music format would end Sony&#39;s long-standing insistence on its proprietary Atrac format.
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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 Corp has unveiled its first MP3-compatible, hard disk Walkman music player in an attempt to recover ground lost to Apple Computerâs iPod.
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Sony U-turns and plans MP3 support for its players Pocket-lint.co.uk
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Sony Corp. announced Tuesday a new 20 gigabyte digital music player with MP3 support that will be available in Great Britain and Japan before Christmas and elsewhere in Europe in early 2005.
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Sony to support MP3 tunes to silence iPod fans Indian Express
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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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Wider Walkman collection now includes 'A' and 'S' series IFA 07 Sony has announced two additional ranges to complement its existing Walkman multimedia collection. Three variations will be available in the A-series and five models will make up the S-series.â¦
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Sony also plans to release some new flash-based players with both MP3 and Atrac playback as early as this year in Europe. As for North American customers, a Sony spokesperson would not committ to a time frame for MP3 support.
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The shake of things to come? Review Sony Ericsson takes moving to the music literally with its motion-sensor based âshake controlâ track-changing gadgetry. But thereâs far more to the HSDPA 3G-enabled Walkman W910i phone than slick moves.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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SonyÂ is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range. It will introduce a new hard disk-based MP3 player in December, and will offer software upgrades for earlier players with hard disk storage so they can play MP3s too.
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Someone at Sony has wisened up and decided to add MP3 support to their new NW-HD3 player slated for release in December. &quot;Sony is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range.