Sony is counter-attacking in the flash-based MP3 player marketplace with some new, lightweight small form-factor models, grouped in 3 product lines. The NW-E405 has 512MB of flash memory, and the NW-E407 series doubles that to 1GB. The NW-E505 is the same as the E405 line, but adds an FM tuner.
The Sony Style MP3 NW-E505L, shown above, provides : 512 MB of flash memory, weighs 37 grams, has a 3-line OLED display, an FM tuner, 50 hours of play time, with up to 3 hours of play from a mere 3 minutes of high-speed charging, and supports both ATRAC3plus and MP3 playback.
The NW-E407R shown below, has 1GB of memory, but no FM tuner :
Sony’s market share of hdd and flash-based music players stands at less than 2% :
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I thought Sony made some good music players, and I’m amazed they had less than 2% of the market share in ’05.