Sonys new, old iPod shuffle
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Date: April 25th, 2007
The creatively titled “NW-E013” usb stick music player, bears a more than a passing resemblance to apples OLD shuffle. The one they ditched a while back.
Released here in Japan a few days ago, Sony believes this latest walkman (with an LCD readout and 1gb capacity) will make the connection between downloads and it’s bespoke mp3 / internet HI-FI unit more seamless.
As you can see it would only be a matter of time before that thing gets ripped out of the HI-FI by an inattentive child or adult, destroying the usb slot and possibly the walkman in the process.
Features abound. The LCD readout is colour, and even sports a mode to browse music by CD cover.
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Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t work on mac osx.