The Sony Walkman has been around for decades. When I was a kid, the name was tied to big yellow cassette tape players. Later the Walkman was a huge set of earphones with a silver antenna a mile long for tuning FM radio. Today the Walkman name is on mobile phones and MP3 players.

Sony has announced a new top-of-the-line Walkman MP3 player called the X-series. The series has integrated Wi-Fi, Slacker Radio, YouTube and integrated noise reduction technology. The device is optimized for both audio and video with a 3-inch OLED touch screen with high contrast and fast response rates.

To allow the user to hear more of their music or video the device has integrated noise reduction technology to reduce ambient sounds and block up to 98% of outside noise. Video files supported include WMV and MPEG-4. The battery is good for 33 hours of music or 9 hours of video. The x-series players will come with 16GB or 32GB of storage for $299 and $399 respectively and will launch in mid-June.

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