Sony Vaio Pocket VGF-AP1L digital music player
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Reg review Does colour screen + touch-sensitive control pad = iPod killer?
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Sony 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 produce
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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 Computer&#39;s white-hot digital music player in their sights.
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Virgin Electronics is challenging Apple&#39;s iPod digital-music player, launching its own 5-GB device. Virgin&#39;s player can store more than 1,200 tracks and sells for $249.
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MP3 players have made it onto nearly everybody's holiday wish lists. Here is a collection of devices that suit every price range.
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photo galleries Music player is a must-have, much-loved accessory. Will fanciful Media Center PCs fare as well?
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This beautifully designed media player is like a slim iPhone sans phone--but it&#39;s marred by some early hardware and software issues.
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The tiny player is compatible with Windows Media Audio, WMA 9 Lossless, MP3 and WAV audio files, and can also display JPEG images.
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(InfoWorld) - Now you don't have to dance to your favorite tunes -- your audio player can dance for you. Rolly, a unique new "audio entertainment player" from Sony, is capable of twisting and turning while playing music. The player, which Sony has been teasing for the last couple of weeks, is egg-shaped and can fit into a hand. It has speakers on each end that are normally hidden by dish-like covers, but the covers move to reveal the speakers and reflect their sound when the Rolly is switched on. There's just one button on the player -- an on/off switch -- with the other functions being controlled by a pair of rings that circle its body. One ring is used to move from track to track or album to album while the other controls the volume. The same two rings are connected to motors that enable the Rolly to scoot around a table-top in time to the music being played. Alternatively it can be set to sit motionless. In that case it's possible to control the Rolly by moving it back and forth to switch tracks, or in a circular motion to increase or decrease the volume. Rolly has 1GB of flash memory built-in and can playback MP3, Atrac, or AAC songs (AAC songs with copy protection from iTunes Music Store aren't supported). In addition to playing back music from its internal memory the Rolly can also receive music streamed via a Bluetooth connection. Sony demonstrated the device running with its "Sonic Stage" software but Rolly will accept streams from other software and devices capable of Bluetooth streaming, the company said. Rolly's movements need to be preprogrammed into the device for each track. There are six that are possible. The dish-like speaker covers can flap in and out, the ends of the device to which the speaker covers are attached can twist around and the wheels can turn. With just these six motions is possible to program a surprisingly complicated sequence of moves. Sony will supply a software application called "Motion Editor" for move-by-move choreography or a rough set of moves can be automatically generated. The latter won't necessarily match in detail the music being played but it's a much quicker way of setting the Rolly in motion that programming by hand. Sony also plans to launch an online community where the company and users can share movement files. Users should get about five hours of audio playback from Rolly. This drops to four hours when the device is in motion and three and a half hours when Bluetooth streaming is also enabled. The Rolly isn't an iPod-killer nor is it meant to be. At a relatively heavy 300 grams and measuring 104 millimeters long and 65 millimeters in circumference the player is not very practical for those wanting a portable audio player. But it is certainly unique and likely to be a talking point whenever people see it. It will go on sale in Japan on Sept. 29 and cost about Â¥40,000 ($353). Sony has yet to decide plans for an international launch. Â
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Walkman for the next generation Sony has launched a super-slim Walkman video MP3 player that's less than 1cm thick. The NW-A800 series features a 2in colour LCD screen and supports the widely-used MPEG 4 video format.â¦
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Sony Europe has launched two tiny 512MB and 1GB MP3 players, the NW-E95 and NW-E99 Network Walkman. Both play MP3 (Sony has officially bit the mp3 bullet) and ATRAC3plus compressed files and have a small blue backlit LCD screen.
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The 1.2 pound Sony Vaio U is powered by a 1.1GHz Intel Pentium M 733 processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 20GB, 1.8-inch hard drive.
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MacCentral - Sony Corp. 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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Sean "P. Diddy" Coombs helps Rhapsody and Sandisk launch Rhapsody 4.0 and a new MP3 player. Now you can clone your iTunes collection. In Listening Post. <img src=" http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/music/xml.gif
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By MAY WONG    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- The consumer electronics arm of the Virgin Group is introducing a new 5-gigabyte hard-disk portable music player, bringing a powerful brand name in music to the increasingly crowded product space...
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two dedicated for PC applications and two for program recording. In extended-play mode, the Vaio PC can store 19
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Sony has unveiled a palm-sized digital audio player that combines the typical features of an MP3 player with robotic technologies to allow it to spin, flash lights and move forward and backward to the music.