![]() Sony has consistently sold these Walkmans on the premise that they are "precision-engineered for superior sound". Inside the device, a few technical tweaks improve on the A45's already solid build. ![]() Body colour options for the A55L are the same as for the A45 (Grayish Black, Moonlit Blue, Horizon Green, Twilight Red, Pale Gold). The bottom edge of the device hosts the 3.5mm headphone jack, the WM-Port charging slot and a lanyard loop. On the left side of the device is the Micro SD Card slot, to expand the unit's meagre 16Gb memory. It's easy to control the player with one hand just by feel alone. The minimal no-fuss design aesthetic puts all the useful buttons on the right-hand side where your thumb or fingers naturally fall: hold (to disable the touch panel) track skip back play/pause/ track skip forward a rocker switch for volume up/down, and the on/off/power button. ![]() It's approximately the same size overall as just the screen alone of the new iPhone SE 2 (already one of the smallest smartphones around), which should give you some idea of the A55L's compact nature. The size of the device is near-perfect, fitting neatly into the palm of the hand. This does give the A55L a more contemporary look and feel. The A50 series has been given subtle cosmetic reshaping, with an ergonomic curve to the aluminium body and a rounding and separation of the control buttons on the side. This Walkman is the latest in what Sony calls the A50 series, which follows in the wake of its popular predecessor, the A45, and builds on that player's functionality in some key areas. If you want to hear your favourite music in a dazzling new light, a high-resolution player such as this Sony could be just the ticket. Happily, at no point have we felt like we've been cheated on the sound, the features, the flexibility or the price. Oof.īack on Planet Earth, we've spent some quality time with Sony's entry-level high-resolution audio Walkman, the NW-A55L. It offers a range of high-resolution players catering to all pockets, from the (relatively) budget-friendly model reviewed here, via the £300+ NW-A105 (with Android OS onboard), peaking in the consumer stratosphere with the WMZ1, which retails for approximately £2,000. Not that this model is the only Walkman game in town for Sony. ![]() Most recently, Sony has kept the Walkman flame alive with a series of well-received, high-resolution audio digital players, of which the NW-A55L is the Japanese company's latest iteration. Last year Sony was fined £250,000 after a “serious breach” of customer data after PlayStation network was hacked in 2011.For any music fan of the last four decades, the word 'Walkman' is iconic, summoning up any number of devices over the 40 years since the first classic TPS-L2 appeared in 1979.Ĭassette players, CDs, MiniDiscs, mobile phones - all kinds of music-oriented devices have borne the Walkman name. It also spun out Bravia TV, with losses of £4.6bn in nine years. Sony quit laptops and PCs last year, selling its Vaio business. He was replaced by Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai in 2010. ![]() Until 2013 the company was run by Sir Howard Stringer, a Welshman, and Emmy-award winning documentary film producer until he became Sony’s first foreign chief executive in 2005. It was added to Carnegie Mellon University’s Robot Hall of Fame as “the most sophisticated product ever offered in the consumer robot marketplace.” The last edition was launched in 2005. Sony moved into Hollywood in 1989 with the $3.4bn (£2.2bn) purchase of Columbia Pictures, renamed Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1991.ĪIBO, the company’s robotic toy dog was born on. It launched the first CD player – the CDP-101 – in 1982 In 1973 Sony received the first Emmy awarded to a Japanese company, for developing the Trinitron colour TV. In 1961 Sony was the first Japanese company to offer shares in the US. ![]()
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