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Features

Overview: The Sony X Series Walkman features an ultra-bright OLED touchscreen display along with noise canceling technology for great portable digital audio/video playback. The X Series Walkman is perfect for surfing the web, watching videos on the go, or listening to your favorite downloaded music. Equipped with built-in Wi-Fi, you can connect to the internet and access your favorite websites including Yahoo!, YouTube, and Slacker Personal Radio. You can also subscribe to your favorite podcasting sites and receive podcasts straight to the MP3 player via a Wi-Fi connection. The X Series also features advanced audio qualities and comes with premium EX noise canceling headphones.

3-inch OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) Screen: The Sony X Series Walkman offers a 3-inch OLED WQVGA (432 x 240 pixels) color screen for watching videos, viewing pictures, and surfing the internet. OLED technology has a response time suitable for movie playback. A wide viewing angle of nearly 180-degrees gives consistent tone and stable contrast, as well as, a wide range of color reproduction and a high contrast ratio. You can also adjust the brightness to one of five levels. You can view video and photos in a vertical or horizontal orientation, as well as in a 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio.

Quick Touch-Screen Navigation: The X Series Walkman offers touch-screen controls so you can browse through your media library with the flick of your finger. In addition to simple, one-touch, on-screen navigation, you can also access your music, videos and photos via button operation. The benefit of both "touch panel" and "button" operation makes the X series easy to use while using its different features.

16GB Internal Memory: the Sony X Series Walkman features an integrated 16GB internal flash memory to download your music, video, photo, and podcast content. Maximum recordable number of songs and videos (approximate):

Note: A portion of the memory is used for data management functions; there is approximately 14.2GB of storage capacity.

Drag-and-Drop Functionality: You can easily load your music, pictures, and video onto this player by dragging and dropping them into the video MP3 player from your computer.

Digital Clear Audio: This player is equipped with Digital Clear audio technologies such as S-Master digital amplifier and a digital noise canceling function that delivers your audio without distortions or distractions. Premium EX noise canceling headphones are also included. The internal microphone embedded in the headphones picks up the ambient noise. The player generates an antiphase sound wave against the ambient noise to reduce it. The Noise Canceling function can reduce the unwanted ambient noise especially in a vehicle such as an airplane, train, bus, etc., allowing you to enjoy music at a low volume.

Note: The supplied headphones are exclusive to this player only. If you connect the supplied headphones to another device, the sound may not play. Also, if you use another set of headphones, the Noise Canceling function will not work.

Multiple Audio/Video Formats: This player supports multiple high-quality video formats as well as a variety of audio codecs, giving you more freedom to download the kind of music and video that you want.

• Music: MP3 (32-320 kbps), WMA (32-192 kbps), AAC-LC (16-320 kbps), and L-PCM (1,411 kbps)
  • Play Mode: Normal, Repeat, Shuffle, Shuffle&Repeat, Repeat 1 Song
  • Search Mode: All Songs, Album, Artist, Genre, Release Year, Playlists, Folder
• Video: AVC-H.264/AVC (320 x 230, 30 fps)), MPEG-4 (320 x 240, 30 fps), Windows Media Video 9 (320 x 240, 30 fps)
  • Play Mode: Normal, Repeat
  • Search Mode: All Videos, Folder
• Photo: JPEG (4096 x 4096)
  • Play Mode: Single, Index, Slideshow
  • Search Mode: All Photos, Folder,

Note: The player can support up to 2,000 audio/video files or 20,000 photo files.

Built-in WiFi (IEEE 802.11b/g): Equipped with built-in Wi-Fi capabilities, you can browse the internet and subscribe to podcasts from your home wireless LAN network or a public wireless LAN hotspot. You can go to your favorite podcast site and subscribe straight from the device via the RSS button. Plus, with built-in Wi-Fi, you can refresh podcasts as well as access music, videos, and content from other websites. You can connect directly to sits such as YouTube and Yahoo!.

Note: Requires compatible wireless access point(s). Some features reply on Internet services which may require a fee. As with all wireless products, actual performance will vary depending on environment.

Free Slacker Radio: Slacker Radio comes integrated on the X Series Walkman. Once you register the X Series Walkman MP3 player with Slacker.com, you can choose up to 3 stations of music. Each station is cached on the device and can be refreshed using a Wi-Fi connection.  Slacker radio offers free personalized music that uploads to your Walkman player when the player is connected to a wireless LAN and when you are in a WiFi zone. (Slacker registration is required after 30 days).

Note: Slacker stations will play for 30 days after you first use the Slacker application on the player. To continue listening, you need to create a new, free Slacker account at www.slacker.com/walkman or link an existing Slacker account with your Walkman player. After 30 days, you will have a 7 day grace period to link your player to an account. After the grace period ends, the stations will not be playable until your player is linked with an account.

Digital FM Tuner: The Sony X Series Walkman features a built-in digital FM tuner (87.5-108MHz) with 30 FM presets that can be set automatically or manually.

Audio Settings: The Sony X Series Walkman offers various audio adjustments; such as a built-in EQ, a digital sound enhancement engine, surround effects, volume limiter, and digital noise cancelling.

• Equalizer: The Sony X Series Walkman offers a built-in Equalizer with 7 settings - Heavy, Pop, Jazz, Unique, or Custom 1 and Custom 2. During Custom mode you can adjust individuual frequency bands (400Hz, 1.0kHz, 2.5kHz, 6.3kHz, 16kHz) from -3 to +3.
• Digital Sound Enhancement Engine: When the "DSEE (Sound Enhance)" function is activated, it plays back naturally extended sound that is close to the original sound.
• Virtual Surround: The X Series Walkman offers the following virtual surround effects - Studio, Live, Club, Arena, Matrix, Karaoke, or None.
• Sound Effects: The X Series Walkman offers the following sound effects.
  • Clear Bass: The Clear Bass can be set to any of 4 sound levels, and the 5 frequency ranges can be set to any of 7 sound levels.
  • Clear Stereo: Clear Stereo enables individual left and right digital processing of the sound.
  • Dynamic Normalizer: You can reduce the volume level between songs. With this setting, when listening to album songs in the shuffle play mode, the volume level between songs is moderated to minimize the difference in their recording levels.
• Digital Noise Canceling: Approx. 17dB, equivalent to approximately 98% reduction of sound energy. You can select the digital filter (Bus/Train, Airplane, Office) that is most suitable for reducing the ambient noise at the location.
• AVLS (Volume Limit): You can set AVLS (Volume Limit) to limit the maximum volume to prevent auditory disturbance or distraction. With AVLS (Volume Limit), you can listen to music at a comfortable volume level.

Date and Time: The Sony X Series Walkman provides a 12/24 hour clock and date display.

Multiple Language Display: You can choose from the following language displays - English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, or Portuguese.

Screen Off Timer: When there is no operation for a while, the player turns off the screen after a predetermined time. You can set the waiting time for turning off the screen to 15 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, 3 min, or 5 min.

Battery Life: The Sony X Series Walkman is equipped with a built-in rechargeable Li-ion battery. Boasting superior battery life, the X Series Walkman delivers up to 33 hours of music playback between chargers. You can also watch up to 9 hours of uninterrupted video on a single charge. In addition the player provides up to 17 hours of FM radio listening and 5.5 hours of web-browsing. The integrated battery charges from your computer via a USB connection (full charge: 3 hours, 80% charge: 1.5 hours).

Note: Actual battery life will vary based on network, product settings, usage patterns, battery, and environmental conditions.

Upgrading Firmware: You can update the player's firmware, allowing you to add new features to the player by installing the latest player's firmware to the player via USB and your computer from www.sony.com.

Software

Bundled Software: The Sony X Series Walkman comes supplied with a CD-ROM disc containing Media Manager for Walkman software and Windows Media Player 11 software.

• Media Manager: Media Manager for Walkman can transfer music, photos or videos from the computer to the player and import audio data from CDs. Media Manager for Walkman can also subscribe to RSS feeds and transfer the music and video files that have been downloaded from Podcasts. Audio files (AAC) or videos can also be transferred by drag-and-drop using Windows Explorer as well as Media Manager for Walkman.  Transferable files include: Music (MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV), Photo (JPEG), Video (MPEG-4 Simple Profile, AVC (H.264/AVC) Baseline Profile, WMV), Podcast (music, video).
• Windows Media Player 11: Windows Media Player can import audio data from CDs and transfer data to the player. When you use copyright protected WMA audio files and copyright protected WMV video files, use this software. Transferable files include: Music (MP3, WMA), Video (WMV), Photo (JPEG).

Note: Media Manager does not support DRM files.

System Requirements: You computer will need to meet the following system requirements to use the included bundled software.

• Windows Operating Systems: IBM PC/AT or compatible computer preinstalled with the following Windows operating systems: Windows XP Home Edition (Service Pack 2 or later), Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2 or later), Windows Vista Home Basic (Service Pack 1 or later), Windows Vista Home Premium (Service Pack 1 or later), Windows Vista Business (Service Pack 1 or later), Windows Vista Ultimate (Service Pack 1 or later)
• CPU: Pentium 4 1.0 GHz or higher
• RAM: 512 MB or more
• Hard Disk Drive: 380 MB or more of available space
• Display: Screen Resolution: 800 × 600 pixels (or higher) (recommended 1,024 × 768 or higher); Colors: 8-bit or higher (16-bit recommended)
• CD-ROM Drive: Supporting Digital Music CD playback capabilities using WDM to create original CDs, a CD-R/RW drive is required
• USB Port: Hi-Speed USB is recommended
• Software: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.0, QuickTimeR7.3(supplied), Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0, Windows Media Player 10 or 11, DirectX9.0 are required. (Windows Media Player 11 recommended) Some computers that already have Windows Media Player 10 installed may encounter file limitation (AAC, video files, etc.) that can be transferred by dragging and dropping. Adobe Flash Player 8 or higher needs to be installed.
• Internet: Broadband Internet connection is required to use Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) or to visit the web site.