Not everyone wants to use his smartphone as a music player or video. The reason is what makes the Apple iPod and still produce not rely on the iPhone is used as a music player.As if to follow the success of the iPod Touch, Sony is ready to release Z Series Walkman. Three touchscreen Walkman series that uses the Android operating system is also ready to be marketed in Japan, in December.
Has a shape like a smartphone, the Walkman NWZ-1000 has a touch screen monitor with 480x800 pixels. Portable music player is also equipped with Nvidia Tegra 2 1GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 802.11 b / g / n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, FM tuner, and micro-HDMI port for video output.
Sony calls this music player can play music up to 20 hours. While the video is only capable of about 5 hours.
With the Android operating system Gingerbread series, this Walkman also comes with a number of applications 'typical Google', such as Gmail, Gtalk, YouTube, and Google Maps. Walkman is also possible to download a number of applications in the Android Market.
What are the advantages of this Walkman than the iPod?
Cnet page called excess noise add-on devices with digital noise canceling and an S-Master digital amplifier MX built-in. Walkman is also able to play music in MP3 format, WMA, ATRAC, ATRAC Advanced Lossless, Linear PCM, AAC, and HE-AAC. However, ATRAC is not expected to be used outside Japan.
Walkman is available in three types, the NW-Z1050 with a storage capacity of 16GB, NW-Z1060 with a capacity of 32GB and NW-Z1070 with a capacity of 64GB. As quoted from page Geek.com, this Walkman priced around U.S. $ 360 to $ 560 (Rp3, 3 million to Rp 5, 1 million).
