The step up from NWE 00x series to the NWE 01x series

[Bueller]

As a follow up to the thread on the NWE-01x series, here is why its out there and the step ups from the 00x series.

Initial benefits and step ups.

30 hours battery (apposed to 28 hours)

Clear audio technologies

3 line colour display

Easy navigation and display

Album Art display

Easy menu

Clock display

Technology

Clear stereo

Clear Bass

Special Coatings

2 layer coatings to protect from fingerprints and scratches

Long Battery Life, Easy Charge

30 hours battery

Only 1 hour needed for full charge

3 min /3 hour quick charge function (Sony Unique feature as seen on other mp3 Walkman)

Accessories (Sold seperately!).

Lots of VERY cool accessories will be out soon after launch (Sports arm band and clip look very cool!!!)

Hope this helps guys!

[AntiPod]

i just wish sony would make players with the outlook of A600/E500s with added colour screen, noise cancelling, and line-in recording, plus memory up to 4 GB or more xD

[Bueller]

i just wish sony would make players with the outlook of A600/E500s with added colour screen, noise cancelling, and line-in recording, plus memory up to 4 GB or more xD

I understand what you are saying but the cost would be phenomenal and unrealistic to the market. Thus they make players that fit certain needs!

[dura_]

I understand what you are saying but the cost would be phenomenal and unrealistic to the market. Thus they make players that fit certain needs!

Why? This week I bought a Kingston USB-stick, 1 Gb for €10. A pretty little package, well made, with a green LED and a metal clip etc. SD-cards nowadays are €15,- for 2 Gb.

All retailprices with all the addups already included, so for me it isn't hard to believe that f.i. Apple will soon release 16Gb or even bigger flashDAPs.

Why can't Sony keep up?

[Bueller]

Why? This week I bought a Kingston USB-stick, 1 Gb for €10. A pretty little package, well made, with a green LED and a metal clip etc. SD-cards nowadays are €15,- for 2 Gb.

All retailprices with all the addups already included, so for me it isn't hard to believe that f.i. Apple will soon release 16Gb or even bigger flashDAPs.

Why can't Sony keep up?

Sorry I was referring to features rather than memory capacity,

Sony may sit back and see what the market is doing before leaping in, as it does rapidly change.

[Shinji Ikeda]

Why? This week I bought a Kingston USB-stick, 1 Gb for €10. A pretty little package, well made, with a green LED and a metal clip etc. SD-cards nowadays are €15,- for 2 Gb.

All retailprices with all the addups already included, so for me it isn't hard to believe that f.i. Apple will soon release 16Gb or even bigger flashDAPs.

Why can't Sony keep up?

Unless some manufacture planning on giving Apple higher capacity flash memory at a below market cost, then this is unlikely for Apple to release such capacity. It can be suggested that a 2Gb flash player will be significantly cheap to make it possible to compare cost flash drives to flash based-DAP. Essentially the difference between the flash drive and flash based-DAP is that it is media player that used flash memory.

In other words: I USB flash drive can not play music, play video, or view pictures.

With 16Gb flash drives sell between 400 to 1250 in American dollars, it is highly unlikely that this will happen this.

Sorry I was referring to features rather than memory capacity,

Joke: Sony has the VGN-UX91NS with 32GB flash memory. You can watch movies, listen to music, view pictures. All for 229,800 Yen.

[dura_]

I'm not sure I agree; there are DAPs that accept memorycards, so even if it would not be the same kind of memory, it is at least possible to use cards for musis playback. Furthermore 8GB Nano's sell here voor €230,- logically 16GB players would cost €460,- max, probably far less.

Prices for flashmemory really felt a long way down the last months, and I'm convinced this will have a big impact on the DAP-market.