[insicor]

Looks awesome, but I think the luster of touch-screen DAPs is starting to wear off on me. Here's to hoping they actually use the wifi for something useful, like wireless podcast updates or something.

 

[soozieq]

In action!

http://superantonym.blogspot.com/200...-hands-on.html

It starts at 0.38

 

[dura]

Wow, it looks great indeed on that video!
Soozieq, today I thought dearly of you; even before your telling us your gonna get one I knew you would, and that's great because I find your impressions recognizable and therefore very helpful in helping me to decide to get one or pass.

 

[walkingman]

Now that is an UI to die for. Just wow.

 

[Calexico]

The UI looks overwhelmingly similar to other Sony players to me =\

 

[kingkevo25]

Wow! It looks impressive. I want to get one, but chances are Sony won't bother with Mac OSX support. If they include some sort of media manager for OSX, I will sell my ipod classic and get this.

 

[walkingman]

Recent Walkmans has MTP/UMS support. This should work with Mac OSX if Sony continues using MTP/UMS on this model.

 

[soozieq]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dura /img/forum/go_quote.gif Soozieq, today I thought dearly of you; even before your telling us your gonna get one I knew you would

Ha ha, I knew that you knew I would

Now that I've seen it's 'real', I can't wait to get my hands on it. I like the fact it's smaller than the iPod Touch, and I love the UI, it's gorgeous. I have a really good feeling that this is going to be the best sounding Sony dap to date. Now I'd just like some idea of the price. I imagine it's going to be around the same as the iPod Touch 2G 32GB, around £260 in the UK. I really hope we get the 32GB version.

 

[BloodSugar00]

Nice! Confirmed and looking splendid! One to keep a firm eye on for me (along with the P3 rom Samsung).

 

[Morph201]

I'm kinda disappointed! The OLED screen should be nice, but for the most part it's ANOTHER touchscreen DAP, whooopie!

I was kind of hoping for a "souped up" next gen PSP with superb audio capabilities...

oh well, this CES is a bust!

 

[Ascariss]

There had to be a catch with this walkman, releasing a new product with touchscreen, digital amp, and noise cancelling can't come without strings attached. And this is the case, it will be available in early summer according to sony, and this for me is a massive fail attempt by sony. I was hoping to pick one up this spring, but if sony screwing around with such foolish release dates, they might as well not even announce these things at all this early.

more photos here for those interested

http://news.sel.sony.com/en/image_li...alkman_players

 

[epithetless]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Punnisher /img/forum/go_quote.gif Lets hope for gapless playback with mp3s.

Yes, lets. And robust on-the-fly playlisting capabilities (à la the Rio/Vibez/Rockboxed players) -- How limited is playlisting on Sony's current line?

 

[soozieq]

Quote:

Originally Posted by epithetless /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yes, lets. And robust on-the-fly playlisting capabilities (à la the Rio/Vibez/Rockboxed players) -- How limited is playlisting on Sony' current line?

Very limited! When they dropped Atrac/SS outside of Japan, the new models didn't have gapless, on-the-fly playlists, ratings, or deletion directly from the player etc etc. I still have my A808 which has all those features, but it would be nice if the new model included some of them. I used to love adding songs to playlists on the move, and I'm one of those who can't predict what I want to listen to in advance, I like to do it on the spot!

 

[Calexico]

Having the pause, forward, back buttons on top REALLY bothers me. IMO it would've been much better to include those buttons on either the left or right side. Placing buttons on the top and bottom of a vertically designed DAP is just sort of awkward, not to mention it looks terrible.

 

[soozieq]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ascariss /img/forum/go_quote.gif There had to be a catch with this walkman, and this is the case, [size=small]it will be available in early summer according to sony[/size], and this for me is a massive fail attempt by sony.

Oh crap!! Summer?? I thought maybe February or March at the latest