The portable cassette players once nearly universally identified as the Walkman may have seen better days, but their spirit is still alive, so far as Sony is concerned. The company is apparently set to release the latest entry in the line, the slick-looking NWZA865B, a 16GB portable media player with wireless file sharing and music streaming capabilities. CNET points out that the device likely won’t have built-in WiFi, due to evidence from the FCC, which does seem to limit the aforementioned streaming options. The 16GB model is also likely one of a number of capacities to be offered, ranging from 8GB to 64GB. The device is available for viewing on UK retailer Buy.com with a £130 ($213) price tag and a July 31st release date.

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It seemed that Samsung is serious about challenging Apple. They already have a PMP running on Android. Now they’re giving their PMP a ‘Galaxy S’ look. With a 4-inch AMOLED screen, a glamorous 1GHz processor (is that really necessary?), 3MP camera, and Wi-Fi connectivity, we have a direct competitor to Apple’s iPod Touch! With the 3MP at the back, it’s even a competitor to the upcoming iPod Touch with FaceTime. Watch out Apple, somebody’s behind ya.

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Yes we’ve seen lots of Android smartphones, and some tablets too. But PMP (Portable Music Player) running on Android is rather rare. Samsung was the first to load Android onto their Yepp-YP-MB2, but now Philips seemed to have followed their footsteps with their latest GoGear Connect PMP powered by Android too. It’s a rather nice direction to drop the proprietary OS in favour of Google’s offer, as things get more ‘global’ and much well taken care off instead of in-house development which might even cost more too.

The product listing from Argos shows that Philips’s new 3.2-inch Android-based PMP listed comes in both 8GB and 16GB. The 16GB variant will cost you £199.99, which is around $313. Kinda pricey for a typical PMP, though there’s touchscreen and even Android marketplace. Check out the specs below.

• 3.2-inch touchscreen display
• Stores up to 3,600 tracks or up to 4,000 photos.
• 25 hours playback or 5 hours video playback.
• Rechargeable via AC/DC adaptor and USB port.
• Size (H)5.9, (W)11.3, (D)1.3cm.
• 2.0 USB port.
• 16GB memory.
• MP3/WMA/AAC/OggVorbis compatible.
• USB cable supplied.
• FM tuner with 20 station pre-sets.
• MicroSD card slot.
• GPS.
• Built-in camera.
• Android 2.1 marketplace.
• Includes headphones.
• Weight 128g.

[Argus UK via Engadget]

Sony’s has released their new E-Series Walkman, the E350. Available in blue, red or black, these Walkmans come in both 4GB and 8GB variants, and are able to offer up to 50 hours of music playback, and up to ten hours of video, and support a variety of formats. Other than that – well, there’s not much more than that, unless you’re hoping for a laser ala James Bond, then you’ll be very much let down. If you can’t wait to get your hands on one, well you’ll have to wait until next month, but it’ll cost you $70 for the 4GB and $80 for the 8GB version once available at Sony Style.

The player features Sony’s SenseMe™ technology, which automatically categorizes music tracks in a connected library into a variety of music channels and playlists. It also has a brand new user interface with such features as “Album Scroll” and “Scene Scroll”, enabling quick and easy content navigation.

It includes a “Bookmark Function” so listeners can create playlists on-the-fly while listening through songs from their music library. Simply bookmark a song while it’s playing to a custom, user-generated playlist. Supported audio formats for the new player include MP3, WMA (DRM), AAC (non-DRM) and linear PCM, and supported video format is WMV (DRM).

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Sony in Japan released a new walkman the NWD-W253 [JP]. It is waterproof (IPX5), wearable under the rain or you can wash it under water. Recently Sony has released a Metal Gear Solid -Peace Walker version technically identical to the regular models. It comes in white, black, green, and pink with 4GB of internal memory, a USB mini port, and compatibility with ATRAC/MP3/WMA/AAC and Linear PCM (WAV) formats. The MGS edition is preloaded with six songs from the games’s official soundtrack. The NWD-W253 will be sold in Japan at $110 while the MGS limited edition will cost 20 bucks more. More pictures after the break.

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Sony has launched their new Waterproof W250 Walkman which can be worn in rain or shower. It comes in 2GB or 4GB and supports MP3, WMA, AAC an Linear PCM formats. It will be available in late May 2010, choose from pink, green, black and white. More pictures after the break.

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Chick or MP3 player? Alright, it is the Cube C30 chinese DAP that comes with 32GB of internal memory, supporting both Flac and APE, memory card expansion slot, TTS Voice reading, eBook Reader and Digital Recording. Wow this chinese chick is hot. Real hot! More pictures

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Take a look at the live shots of the Samsung IceTouch, the MP3 Player that comes with transparent screen. More pictures after the break.

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The Sony NWZ-A840 series was announced in late 2009, a Sony Walkman MP3 player that comes with 2.8 inch WQVGA OLED screen, weight of only 62 grams and also the crown for the thinnest Walkman ever created only 7.2mm. The NWZ-A 845 is now announced to be launched in both Europe and Asia Pacific region starting February 2010 but only in black and only in 16 GB. The current Japan series comes in two colors – black / brown and capacities of 16/32/64GB (A845, A846, A847). More pictures after the break.

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Samsung has released their new MP3 player called IceTouch. It can play common music files as well as DivX, MPEG4, XviD, H.264 and WMV videos. The IceTouch is equipped with DNSe sound technology for the 5.1 support and comes with awesome transparent 2” AMOLED screen. This MP3 player will be sold with 16GB of memory. It does looks like the SE Pureness. More shots after the break.

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