Sony's new Network Walkman flash players: The NW-E505, NW-E507, NW-E405, and NW-E407
Sony finally busted out all those new flash-based Network Walkman digital audio players they accidentally (or "accidentally") leaked out last month. First up: their new 400 and 500 series.
It's pretty inevitable that the 512MB NW-E505 (pictured above), 1GB NW-E507, 512MB NW-E405, and 1GB NW-E407 are going to get compared to the iPod shuffle, so we'll just get that out of the way right quick. All four players have three-line organic electroluminescence displays, up to 50 hours of battery life (if you connect directly to your PC via USB you can score a quick hit of three hours of playback time after just three minutes of charging), jog dial navigation, and native support for playback of MP3 files, as well as ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, WMA, and WAV. The only real difference between the 400 and the 500 series is that the NW-E505 and NW-E507 have built-in FM tuners.
None of these'll be out for a couple more months, but the NW-E405 will sell for $130, the NW-407 for $180, the NW-E505 for $150, while the NW-E507 rounds things out at $200.
[Thanks, Mikko, N8, gzim, and gdba]
