Just Launched – New Sony Walkman Players

Sony just launched new Walkman portable media players: the S, E and B Series. The most interesting one is the high-end S-Series. It comes with a new music management software that’s built to be friendly with music collection ripped from CDs (non-DRM files). It also supports windows media video with DRM (WMV) and can play video at 30fps on the 2″ QVGA (320×240) LCD display. We would have liked DivX as well, but it won’t be for this round. For travelers, the S-Series can act as a noise-cancelling device. If it is anything like previous models, I can tell you that it does reduce noise, but I don’t expect it to be as good as dedicated noise-cancelling headphones – but it’s not a bad compromise. If on the contrary, you are in a quiet environment, you can use the internal speakers.

• $150 – Walkman NWZ-S736F 4GB
• $180 – Walkman NWZ-S738F 8GB