Sony has a pair of new Android Walkmans out, the
NW-A300
and
NW-ZX700
. Yes, that's right,
Walkmans,
Sony's legendary music player brand from the 1980s.
Apple may have given up on the idea of a smartphone-adjacent music player when it killed the iPod Touch line recently, but Sony still makes Android-powered Walkmans and has for a while.
The NW-A300 is a tiny little device that measures 56.6×98.5×12 mm, so pretty close to a deck of playing cards. And really, just
look
at these pictures.
the NW-ZX700. It's 104,500 yen ($818) in Japan, and while that sounds like a lot for a portable music player, it's actually a relative bargain compared to the "Signature Series" NW-WM1ZM2