Sony provides more details of OLED touchscreen Walkman

10.03.2009
Sony has provided some detailed specifications for its promised and anticipated X-series Walkman that was teased at January's CES but the launch date remains the biggest unanswered question.

The were posted on Sony Hong Kong's Web site.

The device has a 3-inch touchscreen OLED (organic light emitting diode) display that, like other OLEDs, is sure to look crisp and bright. The use of a touchscreen means most buttons are gone from the small device but a few, such as the basic start, pause and volume controls remain. It also means the display takes up most of the front panel of the device, which is just under 10 centimeters tall, 5 cms wide and a centimeter thick.

It will play MP3, Windows Media WMA, AAC and Linear PCM format audio songs, which just about covers all of the most common formats but it won't play DRM-protected AAC songs bought from the iTunes Music Store. Video support includes MPEG4 AVC/H.264 and Windows Media WMV9.

There's also a podcast player and it will run YouTube video, both of which are loaded into the player via a computer.

The 3-inch screen is revealed as having 432 pixel by 240 pixel resolution, which is widescreen QVGA resolution.