Sony is launched latest additions to its popular Walkman line that comes with newer features like noise cancelling, a bright touchscreen display, mobile TV, and Internet surfing and YouTube videos. The players will be available in India by mid-2009.

The NW-X1000 players are small devices and all features are accessed through a touch-driven user-interface. A button under the display always takes you to the home screen from where you can access the main functions.

Tap the music icon and you're into the music player. Album art is displayed in the center of the screen and other relevant information around the edge. To browse the library, just hold down the album cover and swipe your finger up or down and a stream of cover graphics slide past you on the screen.

A nifty little feature lies at the bottom of the main music screen that take you out onto the Web and find content related to the music you're listening to as long as you have access to a Wi-Fi network.

Sony has built in dedicated links to YouTube and Windows Live. Videos play in much the same way and its easy to scroll through available mobile TV stations.

There's one other neat feature worth mentioning: drag and drop. You can simply drag music files across your desktop to the player's memory and it will organize the music as long as the files include metadata.

Battery life is up to 33 hours in music player mode although that decreases quickly into the single digits when viewing video, watching TV or running Wi-Fi. Audio format support includes MP3, Windows Media, Linear PCM and ATRAC files while they will play AVC, MPEG4 and WMV9 video files.

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Posted by Nilakshi Handique on 15 April, 2009 5:32:17 PM IST #