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Flash Network Walkman

Sony has announced that it is expanding its line of Network Walkmans. The line used to only include hard drive based digital music players, however, now three new players based off of flash memory chips that be will be included.

The new players are circular in shape and measure 6 cm in diameter and 2 cm thick. They all include a LCD screen and weigh about 37 grams. The players are powered off of three AAA batteries and in Ôpower saveÕ mode the battery can reach up to 70 hours

The 256MB NW-E103, the 512MB NW-E105 and the 1GB NW-E107, as the new players are known as, make a debut in Japan after March 21 and to the world by the end of March.

The new digital flash music players will support MP3 music file format as well as SonyÕs proprietary ATRAC and ATRACPlus format. Sony says though that music encoded in the ATRACPlus format allows about 47 hours to be stored on a 1G drive but when in MP3 the same drive will only store about 17 hours and 40 minutes.

For the full story:
Macworld UK - Sony unveils affordable new Network Walkman range