It’s a Beany Walkman….Baby
Sony has unveiled its ‘Shuffle killer’ - the Walkman Bean.
The eponymous Bean comes in white, black, blue or pink and with 512MB or 1MB storage. However, you can only get the blue version, which is our favourite, at Sony Style stores.
It comes with an inbuilt pop-up USB plug which means that when you hook it up to your PC, you don’t even have to hunt around for a wire as it connects directly.
Charge time is ridiculously fast - you only have to charge it for 3 minutes to get 3 hours’ playback from it, though if you charge it to capacity you’ll then be able to use it for 50 hours non-stop.
Of course, the Bean won’t let you play tracks purchased at iTunes, you’ll have to use Sony Connect instead, but that’s a small price to pay for what TechSmec.com thinks is the coolest-looking flash mp3 player around. Sony is already accepting pre-orders for the Bean which will ship in the middle of September.
Add comment August 19th, 2005