Sony gets on the stick with new E-series Walkmans

If your primary motivation in choosing an MP3 player is its ability to match your shoes then you're in luck, sissy. Sony's newest NW-E-series of Walkman USB sticks come in ¥16,000 (about $149) NW-E026F (4GB), ¥13,000 ($121) NW-E025F (2GB), and ¥11,000 ($102) the NW-E023F (1GB) flavors with plenty of interchangeable shells to keep up with your wardrobe. They support ATRAC/MP3/WMA/AAC and Linear PCM with an FM tuner thrown in for good measure. But hey, nobody as hip as you listens to FM now do they? Look for these to go global with the addition of DRM'd WMA but without Sony's proprietary ATRAC format sometime after the Japanese launch on March 8th.

[Via Akihabara News]

[fanman @ Feb 20th 2008 4:55AM]

Wow, they look nice.

- fanman, listening to his iPod.

[Mr.Tech @ Feb 20th 2008 5:12AM]

Adding APE / Lossless files anytime soon?

[gggggMEN @ Feb 20th 2008 5:08AM]

Holy ****... they nailed it.

[Tony @ Feb 20th 2008 5:57PM]

Just like the 1st gen Shuffles. The lack of wires is the best part about it.

[electroglyph @ Feb 20th 2008 5:09AM]

WTF, they haven't abandoned that crap ATRAC yet?

[Nitin Kumar @ Feb 20th 2008 5:41AM]

Supporting a format doesn't take much as long as you don't force it to customers... Seeing they no longer include the DRM support for ATRAC, it's as good sign coming from the once proprietary only company...

IF I remember correctly, Stringer made a comment sometime last year promising reduced proprietary stuff. AFAIK Sony HAS made a fair bit of progress towards atleast supporting other formats.

[AoMoe @ Feb 20th 2008 11:45AM]

Sony will continue to support ATRAC and SonicStage in Japan. I hope that is not your only gripe, since these player does support other formats.

[Ebzy @ Feb 20th 2008 5:56AM]

The bottom-middle one would really match my Sony Ericsson w850. The only problem is since I have that and it has the same music capabilities, I dont see the point of buying this.

What do others think who have phones with good audio playback capabilities?

[emailtabs @ Feb 20th 2008 7:07AM]

did you just call me a sissy for liking my nice shiny shoes..... Ponce is the technical word i'll have you know.

[kev @ Feb 20th 2008 9:12AM]

Not to mention also knocking on those who listen to FM radio. Hey, I like getting my news from intelligent sources...I make a few exceptions though.

[Poom @ Feb 20th 2008 8:12AM]

I love the design! Thumbs up for whoever designed this.

[Tony C @ Feb 20th 2008 8:14AM]

A color LCD that small, Sony? For its price, wouldn't a nice shiny and bright OLED have been better?

[shaliron @ Feb 20th 2008 8:33AM]

Look nice, but a tad expensive (Shuffle at half the price).

[Chad @ Feb 20th 2008 9:29AM]

The shuffle has half the features. No screen and no fm tuner.

[wilcoholic @ Feb 20th 2008 11:22AM]

This is an awesome range from sony but the price is just too high. $150 for a 4gb is just too much. You got the sansa clip for $80. Its a dead shame because this one has all the features I want.

[techieguru16 @ Feb 20th 2008 11:37AM]

my picture says it all.






ps i got my sansa for $60 bn it is 2gb and has a big screen, not to mention all the features.

[serge @ Feb 20th 2008 12:42PM]

Too much alike its predecessor the NW-016F, stil brilliant and slicker than these. and OLED...:)

Would like to see a 8GB one though...

[Oakland @ Feb 20th 2008 4:12PM]

Seems pretty decent for commuters and gym rats. Great for listening to the T.V. stations at the gym with the FM tuner and small enough not to attract too much attention. Aside from the loud colors, decent.

[mermaid.boy @ Feb 21st 2008 5:00AM]

i believe the grammatically correct term is "walkmen".

[Juan Fernando Valencia @ May 1st 2008 1:42PM]

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