Android Walkman "Z series" review of the highest performance ever, to Sony's highest peak

It was announced as "the best performance ever" in the middle of SeptemberSony's Android walkman "Z series"Is being held from todayCEATEC JAPAN 2011It was exhibited at.

"Z series" is equipped with high brightness, high contrast large screen LCD, NVIDIA's Tegra 2 processor (dual core, 1 GHz), 512 MB memory, etc. It is also possible to play full HD video. Furthermore, by adopting the high sound quality improvement technology including the full digital amplifier "S-Master MX" realizing the highest sound quality in the history of the Walkman, it combines both sound quality and processing performance.

CEATEC JAPAN 2011 Sony booth


This is the Walkman 'Z series'. Two types of coloring are black and red.


On the back we adopted the design "Inflection Surface Form" pursuing ease of holding. Even if you place it on a table etc., the monaural speaker in the center will not be blocked.


right side. In addition to the mini HDMI terminal, "W. button" which can operate music playing at any time regardless of screen condition is installed.


Left side


beneath. There is a headphone terminal and a WM - PORT terminal.


Power button on the top


Movie list recorded on the main body


Music list looks something like this


Application distribution service "Android Market" can be used. For communication, IEEE802.11 b / g / n compatible wireless LAN built in the main unit is used.


The setting screen looks something like this. It is almost the same as Android smartphone.



Noise canceling setting screen.


Preinstalled applications that make it easy to set up and connect to wireless LAN


Google Maps is also available. Because it is built in GPS, it seems to be useful as a small information terminal if combined with a mobile Wi - Fi router etc etc.


You can see that it is one size larger than Sony Ericsson's "Xperia arc".


And the core part of the "Z series" sound quality part.


Sony's highest peak of Sony at the moment is stuffed up, including further optimization of the process of full digital processing of the audio signal and installation of "S-Master MX" which became higher sound quality.


Three types of 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB will be released on December 10, and the market estimate price will be around 43,000 yen for the 64GB model (NW - Z 1070), 32GB model (NW - Z 1060) Is around 33,000 yen, and the 16 GB model (NW - Z 1050) is around 28,000 yen.

It's like the Android smart phone that is transformed into a figure like this, but to the CPUKDDI's Fall / Winter 2011 smartphone "MOTOROLA PHOTON ISW 11 M"Because it adopts the same thing as the other, it seems that it will be popular mainly for high-end oriented users.

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