Sony Sports MP3 Player confirmed - the WALKMAN NW-S200 Series

Sony UK has today confirmed the addition of Sports MP3 players - the WALKMAN NW-S200 Series - to their range.

The linked press release gives some details of the range - we have received a product briefing from Sony that allows us to provide some extra details.

• Water resistant - The body of the NW-S200 series is manufactured from water resistant aluminium. This creates a water and sweat resistant casing.
• Sports Mode - The user can set targets for their workout based on calories to burn, distance run or steps taken. Music will start playing and then stop when the target is reached.
• Music Pacer - The Music Pacer function lets the NW-S200 series detect user movement and automatically switch between 'running' and 'walking' playlists depending on how vigorously it detects you are moving.
• Shuffle Shake - Shake an NW-S200 three times and it switches to shuffle mode. Shake 3 more times and it switches back to normal play.
• Quick charge - Charging the NW-S200 series battery for 3 minutes gives 3 hours of playback time. A full 45 minute charge is claimed to give an 18 hour battery life (the usual manufacturer caveats of '18 hours when played in non-shuffle mode.. ..blah blah..) apply but it still seems like a very good battery life that means the unit won't be sitting on charge when you're ready to hit the road.
• The unit also has a built in pedometer (I guess using G-Sensor again), stopwatch.
• Sound functions - A dynamic normaliser minimises the difference in volume level between tracks.

Silva Bokis has seen pre-production models of the new WALKMAN NW-S200 Series Sports MP3 Players - we will post photos in the next few hours.

UPDATE: NW-S200 Photos now available on Pbase.

Comments

[Hossein]

thank you , can you please get me some information and HQ pics about "Sony NW S205" that is the newest Flash in Iran Bazaar in March 2009 although I read it was released in 2006.