Look out Apple, Sony wants a fight! Sony unveiled its first MP3-compatible Sony Walkman music player this week. It’s called the Network Walkman NW-HD1 and Sony hopes it will recover ground lost to Apple Computer‘s wildly successful iPod.
Is The New Sony Walkman NW-HD1 an iPod Killer?
Sony President Kunitake Ando said that he was determined to take the spotlight away from Apple. Executives at Sony are even boldly calling the NW-HD1 an “iPod Killer”.
Can Sony Reclaim Their Former Portable Music Glory?
Sony is trying to once again outdo the undisputed champ of personal music players. It realizes it’s proprietary music format, ATRAC, was not catching on with consumers. Therefore they have integrated both ATRAC and MP3 audio support into their new Sony Walkman (which costs more than a 20gig iPod) for MP3 audio.
Advantages Over The iPod
The new Sony Walkman comes in five colors, plays 2.5 times longer on one battery charge than iPod’s 12 hours, and can contain 10,000 to 13,000 songs, at least twice as many as an iPod because of ATRAC‘s better compression technology.
Will Consumers Switch Away From The iPod?
The new Sony Walkman NW-HD1 sounds impressive. But will consumers embrace it? We doubt it. What about you? What do you think? Please leave a comment below.
Frank Wilson is a retired teacher with over 30 years of combined experience in the education, small business technology, and real estate business. He now blogs as a hobby and spends most days tinkering with old computers. Wilson is passionate about tech, enjoys fishing, and loves drinking beer.
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