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SI: The Sony Touchscreen Walkman X-Series Dissected

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When the Walkman X-Series (NW-X1050, NW-X1060) debuted on the FCC on Feburary 5th, Sony filed a short term confidentiality letter to block the public from seeing the internal photos for a month and a half. I went back and looked at the PDF and the pictures are now available. I wasn’t able to find much information on the components, except the 250mhz ARM processor that is the brains of the music player, which is a far cry from the 533mhz processor in the iPod Touch. It’s called the MP201, made by NEC and debuted back in July 2006 - and probably has some tweaks for this generation especially since there is an OLED screen involved. It’s not immediately clear how much memory is in the device, as it can vary from 64 - 512mb but we could imagine that with all the functions within it is most certainly 256mb or more. Here’s a general block diagram of the processor:

nec_mp201_block

The MP201 chip represented a significant advance for digital audio players, video recorder/players, and other portable devices that enables consumers to download the latest audio content or receive mobile terrestrial digital broadcasts. Here are some of the specs:

  • CPU: ARM926EJ-STM (MAX. 250MHz, I-cache: 16KB, D-cache: 16KB)
  • DSP: SPXK611 (250MHz MAX., I-cache: 32KB, D-cache: 32KB)
  • H.264 decoder: QVGA 30fps
  • MPEG4 encoder/decoder: QVGA 30fps
  • Internal RAM: 256KB SRAM
  • SDRAM interface: SDR-SDRAM (125MHz MAX., 64Mb to 512Mb
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wow this beats the crap out of ipod touch and Sony X-serie

Microsoft has done it again the OS is based on Windows CE

When MS really focus on something, they could make it a killer, just like they did with Xbox. And folks, this IS a killer.

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wow this beats the crap out of ipod touch and Sony X-serie

Microsoft has done it again the OS is based on Windows CE

When MS really focus on something, they could make it a killer, just like they did with Xbox. And folks, this IS a killer.

Thought the article was on the x Series... where did Microjunk come into it ??

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