Sony cuts prices on A810, S610 series Walkmans

Sony's new A810 and S610 series Walkmans have just barely made it out the door, but it looks like the company has already decided to shave a few bucks off the price of 'em. According to the Sony Style website, the A810 now starts at $120 for the 2GB model (as opposed to the $140 launch price), while the 4GB will set you back $150 and the 8GB demands an even $200. The S610 series, on the other hand, now starts at just $100 for the 2GB model (down from $120 before), with the 4GB and 8GB coming it at $130 and $180, respectively. The Walkman B100 series, introduced around the same time as the other two, looks to be the only one unchanged, costing $60 for the 1GB version and $80 for the 2GB.

[Thanks, Raw32]

[Vizion @ Sep 10th 2007 4:16PM]

Before anyone starts bashing this player because it's made by Sony. These are two quality players. I spent some time with them on Saturday and the build is quite solid, the interface smooth and from what my peerhas said, the Sound quality is excellent.

Try it out before blindly bashing folks. Thanks

[wavesguy @ Sep 10th 2007 5:32PM]

Agreed. I checked out both of these players this weekend at Sonystyle. Both are top notch with excellent sound quality.

[Shan @ Sep 10th 2007 5:03PM]

Nice

[Alan Partridge @ Sep 10th 2007 5:12PM]

If you go to the sonystyle site the first item in the list of features is:

Transfer without SonicStage®


:D

[Alan Partridge @ Sep 10th 2007 5:13PM]

the UK page that is, sonystyle.co.uk

[maxmasa31 @ Sep 10th 2007 5:26PM]

Crap! It's like the iPhone, but worse yet, they Sony dropped their prices in two weeks! I hope they're offering a $30 refund on these!

[JJ @ Sep 10th 2007 5:35PM]

If they would make it 16GB or shove an SD slot in there then we can talk dollars

[nick @ Sep 10th 2007 5:53PM]

Anyone know if this will be compatible on a MAC? Heard it does go into umc mode when plugged into one.

Am deciding between this and iPod Nano. I hate using itunes, and want a player whereby I just drag and drop. Heard there are programs which allow you to do this on an iPod without using itunes? True?

Thanks!

[maxmasa31 @ Sep 10th 2007 6:35PM]

Yes, it works on a Mac. I'm using my 618 on my Macbook. The only thing is, in OS 10.4, the player won't unmount. Whenever you try to unmount it, it'll just keep re-mounting. It doesn't have the same problem when I use it at work on OS 10.3, though... Oh, well...

I just log out and put my Mac to sleep when I'm done syncing whatever I want, and then unplug it. Aside from that, I haven't had any problems other than not having all of my album covers. My 320x240 iPod videos I converted w/iSquint work perfectly, as does my non-iTMS AAC files, which I dragged and dropped from iTunes.

I'm usually a big Apple fanboy, but I like my 618 better than my iPod, and probably won't pick up a new nano because of it!

[Nelson Wong @ Sep 10th 2007 6:17PM]

I am actually starting to like their DAP. Especially since they doing away with the connect online. Still wondering if you still have to use their program to add songs on... Drag and drop would be best...

[Tausif @ Sep 10th 2007 4:41PM]

Drag and Drop, Winamp or WP11, your choice, just not Sonicstage or iTunes.

[Vizion @ Sep 10th 2007 5:00PM]

The players are now MTP devices, meaning you can drag and drop files through windows explorer. You can also use programs like WMP. SonicStage is no longer packaged.

[Endeavour @ Sep 10th 2007 5:01PM]

Yes, this new version it's drag&drop. :D

Review: http://www.atraclife.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4094

[Sean DL @ Sep 11th 2007 1:31AM]

Yeah they had to drop the 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB since the nano starts at 4GB for 149.

At lease the competition isn't laying down...

[france.justin @ Sep 11th 2007 5:30AM]

How have I missed the S series of players? I think the Axxx models look sorta fugly (even in person, I have had the pleasure), but the S series are sweet looking.. why haven't i seen them in any stores?

Sony is slowly coming good with it's porrtable media players - way too late in the game, unfortunately.

[S @ Sep 11th 2007 10:17AM]

No Sony bashing? A Mac user who doesn't like iTunes? Where am I?

Poor Sony, I think the 16 GB nano really clubbered them... The 8 GB A810 is looking sweeter by the minute though...

[JD @ Sep 11th 2007 10:40AM]

What happened to AAC support on the B100? It was there when they first announced it but it's not listed in the specs.

[Dave @ Sep 11th 2007 12:57PM]

what? the aXXX players are so much nicer than the other sXXX ones...

[john @ Sep 18th 2007 1:46AM]

when are you guys putting up a review of this thing!
both skatter tech and pcmag already put up reviews, but don't trust them as much as engadget

here is the link to the ST one, http://skattertech.com/2007/09/sony-nwz-s610-walkman-review/

pc mag seems to be down or something