The front is dominated by a 3.6-inch, 60 Hz, 1280×720 touchscreen LCD. I have no use for a standalone music player, but both of these Walkmans are so pretty that I just want to hold one. Sony might not be the consumer electronics juggernaut it used to be, but it still has an incredible product design department. The NW-A300 is a tiny little device that measures 56.6×98.5×12 mm, so pretty close to a deck of playing cards. In Sony's home of Japan, the 32GB version is 46,000 yen (about $360), while in Europe, it's 399 euro (about $430). This is an upgraded version of that device with a less-ancient version of Android, a new SoC, and a scalloped back design. This basic design debuted in 2019 with the NW-A105, but that shipped with Android 9. We'll start with the most consumer-friendly of the two, the NW-A300. Sadly these new ones seem to only be for sale in Japan, the UK, and Europe, for now. Since then, Sony has made designs with more purpose-built hardware, and today there are a whole series of Android-powered Walkman music players out there. The first was in 2012 with the Android 2.3 Gingerbread-powered NWZ-Z1000, which looked like Sony just stripped the modem out of an Xperia phone and shoved it onto the market as a music player. Apple may have given up on the idea of a smartphone-adjacent music player when it killed the iPod Touch line recently, but Sony still makes Android-powered Walkmans and has for a while. Yes, that's right, W alkmans, Sony's legendary music player brand from the 1980s. Sony has a pair of new Android Walkmans out, the NW-A300 and NW-ZX700.
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