Sony announces the Android walkman "Z series", the best performance ever

Sony Finally Android Walkman "Z seriesWe officially announced.

"Walkman" Z series with Android (TM) to enjoy a variety of applications with high sound quality | Press release | Sony

According to Sony's press release, the company is to release the Flagship Walkman "Z Series" adopting Android 2.3 on December 10th.

Z series body. NVIDIA's Tegra 2 processor and 512 MB memory which is adopted also for large-screen 4.3-inch WVGA (480 × 800) liquid crystal, high-end tablet etc. which is easy to see even in the field and is easy to see. It also supports software download from the Android Market, realizing comfortable multitasking such as high-speed web browsing, high definition video game, full HD video playback.


Two types of coloring are black and red. Three models of 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB are available, and the market estimate price is around 43,000 yen for the 64 GB model (NW - Z 1070), around 33,000 yen for the 32 GB model (NW - Z 1060), about 16 GB model (NW - Z 1050 ) Is around 28,000 yen.


Viewed from the side. The design which pursues ease of use "Inflection Surface Form" is adopted, the main body size is about 70.5 × about 134.2 × about 11.1 mm (the thinnest part: 9.6 mm), the weight is about 156 g. Battery run time is about 20 hours for music and about 5 hours for animation.


Besides having a monaural speaker on the back, it is equipped with IEEE 802.11 b / g / n compatible wireless LAN, HDMI terminal, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and GPS, electronic compass, acceleration sensor, FM radio etc. supporting DLNA.


In addition to the "digital noise canceling function" that cuts the surrounding noises by about 98.0%, as well as the full digital amplifier "S-Master MX" that realizes the highest sound quality in the history of the Walkman, and the high frequency range that tends to be lost in compression is cleared "DSEE (Digital Sound Enhancement Engine)" to play, "Clear stereo" which restrains the mixture of left and right sounds and plays the original stereo sound, "Clear base" which regenerates a powerful heavy bass tightened, etc. Adopt technology.


Furthermore, it has a new application "W. Music" that can select music with an intuitive operation while touching a jacket picture of an album, and "W. button" which can operate music playing at any time regardless of the screen condition, Enhance usability as well as music player. It also corresponds to "going out transfer" from Sony made Blu-ray disc recorder.

Although it is stuffed with everything including noise canceling function and full digital amplifier "S-Master MX", it is a "Z series" which has reasonable feeling compared with the same specification smart phone, but with mobile routers etc. When used in combination, it looks pretty good.