Sony Announces NW-WM1ZM3, NW-WM1AM3 And NW-ZX900 Walkman Players
Sony is putting its third-generation flagship and a rebuilt mid-range model out on the same day, a bet that the 300,000-yen-and-above segment holds even as the domestic portable market shrinks by unit volume.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Sony announced three new Walkman players on October 16: the flagship NW-WM1ZM3 and NW-WM1AM3 in the WM1 series, and the upper-mid-range NW-ZX900. All release November 27 at open pricing, with estimated street prices around 655,000 yen, 347,000 yen, and 215,000 yen respectively. All three adopt Android 16, a high-efficiency SoC, and newly support LDAC, LC3, and aptX Adaptive Bluetooth codecs.
Sony is refreshing both the flagship WM1 line and the ZX line at once, and the shared changes are the platform, not the amplifier. All three players move to Android 16 with a high-efficiency SoC, which let Sony quote roughly 35 hours of streaming playback on the WM1 series and the same figure on the ZX900, plus about 40 hours of local MP3 playback on the ZX900.
The display also changed: the WM1 series goes from 5.0-inch to 5.5-inch Full HD, while the ZX900 stays 5.0-inch but moves from HD to Full HD. Sony's DSD Remastering Engine at 11.2MHz and DSEE Ultimate now work inside third-party streaming apps.
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