February 13, 2007
Sony to bring up iPod Nano contender
Reliable sources told a sources’s brother’s girlfriend’s roommate’s dog’s owner’s manicurist’s magician that Sony may be working on an iPod Nano contender. While the body would be a modified design of the NW-A3000 series, new units would actually run smaller than the Nano and playback video for 8-10 hours at a time on a larger screen. Sizes range from 2-8GB with pricing potentially starting a bit higher than the Nano’s. Plans are for the the interface to stay the same.
But none of it will matter for Sony unless they start heavily advertising their Walkman products and stop letting cryptologists brand product models. The iPod line has earned its street cred through a superb product line, but I’m guessing that many consumers don’t think twice because the Sansas of the world aren’t even on their radar
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June 30, 2007
Carl said:
Aren’t pretty much all consumer audio device makers making iPod contenders of all types? The Apple iPod is a pretty big target, even if you can get a little of their market that’s quite an achievement given the size of the iPod market at the moment. However, having said all that.. I’m all for the smaller the better when it comes to good mp3 players WITH a decent quality colour screen.
July 12, 2007
Lesalle Smithe said:
Lightning strikes to iPods…..will happen because iPods contain Satellite information retrieval systems when they are played/turned on etc. That’s how apples pulls consumer data - although this in undisclosed and something they deny.