Well, if you’ve been a faithful Sony Insider reader, the NW-X1000 Touchscreen Walkman series is no stranger to you. We predicted its debut, and slowly the details of the most feature-rich portable music player Sony has ever released came together. Sony Japan has finally acknowledged the existence of the X-Series Walkman by noting that Japanese consumers will be able to purchase a NW-X1050 (16gb; 40,000y) or a NW-X1060 (32gb; 50,000y) on April 25th. The Japanese Touchscreen Walkman will have the ability to receive broadcast TV signals. There has also been acknowledgment of a new and previously unannounced red color (that we predicted) and a special Japanese-only ‘Black Ice’ color only available at Sony Style Japan. All of the pictures in this post are super high resolution so click on them for a better view.
Sony Japan’s promotional introduction video:
Battery life (you can make estimates based on your usage):
- Music: 33 hours (MP3 128kbps. Noise-canceling functionality, Equalizer, VPT, Clear Stereo, DSEE, wireless LAN, “off”)
- Video: 9 hours (MPEG-4 384kbps. Noise-canceling functionality, wireless LAN, “off”, brightness “3”)
- Wireless web browsing: 4.5 hours (Noise-canceling features “off”, the set brightness “3”)
Other details we’ve never seen elsewhere include:
- Screen has 262,144 colors
- 5mW output
- Built-in lithium ion battery, 1.5 hours to get 80% charge, 3 hours for full charge
- Has same high-quality paint found in certain vehicles (meant to appear like ore)
- Music, Photos and Video can all be drag n’ dropped into the player
- Excellent information about browser capabilities (will be covered in a separate post)
- Wallpaper is customizable, screen has 240×432 resolution
- Can split video in detail in minutes and seconds by simply specifying the interval, to find the scene you want.
- Easy and fast text input prediction capabilities
- Three modes for noise cancelling (bus train / plane / room)
- Digital noise cancelling without music playback
- The ability to download recorded programs from Sony BDZ-X95/X100/A750/A950 Blu-ray/DVR units
Here’s a picture of the red model:
..and the Sony Style Japan exclusive “Black Ice” model (aluminum frame, special mirror coating):
