Sony is preparing to update its NW-A1000 line of hard drive-based Walkman
digital music players with an 8GB model.
The NW-A1200 bumps the storage capacity by more than 33 per cent to 8GB. The
new player's specs are likely to match those of the previous version,
principally the 20-hour battery life.
While SonicStage CP incorporates support
for the AAC audio format, it's not yet clear whether the NW-A1200 will, though
it seems likely given Sony's new-found willingness to work with technologies it
didn't invent. So the new player will certainly play MP3 files in addition to
Sony's own ATRAC 3 and ATRAC 3 Plus formats. The NW-A1200 will ship mid-June.
Pricing is not yet known.
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