Sony Lauches Two New walkman series (NW-A8xx and NW-E01xx)

First Video Walkman by Sony ( direct competition with Nano) ,comes in 3 flavours NW-A805(2gb),NW-A806(4gb) and NW-A808(4gb).New walkman can be preordered now from Sonystyle europe (Will be shipped in April ).Walkman has Flash based type memory .

Features:

• Plays approximately 30 hours of music or 8 hours of video
• 2.0 inch QVGA High Brightness Colour LCD (240 x 320 dots)
• Multi codec support (many formats supported)
• WM-PORT (22 pin connector that allows you to connect your WALKMAN to various kinds of optional accessories)
• Hi-Speed USB compatible (USB 2.0)
• Colour: violet
• Dimensions: 43.8 x 88.0 x 9.1 mm (the thinnest section is 8.3mm)
• Weight: approximately 53 g
• Supplied accessories: headphones (MDR-EX082), headphone exention cable, USB cable, software (SonicStage CP 4.3, Image Coverter 3), quick start guide (full instruction manual is included on the CD-ROM)

Another Flash based type model(lipstick shaped) has been launched by Sony along with their first video Walkman is NW-01xx series . It is only available in 1gb and 2gb.