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CES: The Sony Walkman is back for 2016

article published on 5 January, 2016

Sony is back with a new Walkman music player for 2016: the newly announced Walkman A26. The new device is a sequel to last year's A17, although the A26 is decidedly less high-end. The new device loses the touchscreen and has a stripped down UI (no more Android) although it can still handle hi-res audio formats like FLAC, AIFF, WAV, ALAC and standard MP3 and AAC. Sony has also made ... [ read the full article ]

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SoTired
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_ 		6. January 2016 @ 02:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It looks nice enough, but I don't understand why anyone would spend $300 or so on a Walkman instead of listening to the same music on a smart phone.
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_ 		6. January 2016 @ 15:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
150 max price I will spend, a filo x5 looks good for that price if you can find it used...
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hearme0
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_ 		6. January 2016 @ 17:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
They do this every several years to keep the name relevant if I were to guess but the Walkman surfaced about 3-5 years ago too so this is nothing special.
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Bozobub
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_ 		8. January 2016 @ 00:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by SoTired:
 It looks nice enough, but I don't understand why anyone would spend $300 or so on a Walkman instead of listening to the same music on a smart phone.
Two words: "battery life".
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