The first music player I ever owned was a Walkman, so I was excited to go hands-on with the newest one – until I learned it costs $3,200. Horrified, I scrambled across the Sony booth at IFA 2016 to take in the latest installment in my favorite Sony smartphone line, the Compact … but with a hobbled feature set and a chintzy casing, this is like no Compact that’s come before. So as I walk away from Sony’s booth on the final day of IFA 2016, my overwhelming sense is that of a company whose motivations I no longer understand … and whose products I no longer identify with. Here’s hoping that changes come CES 2017; for now, check out the MrMobile hands-on in the video above.
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Sony Xperia X Compact
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Sony Walkman Signature Edition NW-WM1Z
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Sony MDR-Z1R Premium Headphones
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[ABOUT THIS VIDEO]
This video was produced after an afternoon at Sony’s booth at IFA 2016 in Berlin, where I spent time with the Walkman NW-WM1Z and Sony Xperia X Compact. It is not a full review and should not be construed as such.
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I didn’t spend time with Sony’s true flagship smartphone, the Xperia XZ, but my colleague Alex Dobie of Android Central did. See his full review here:
http://www.androidcentral.com/sony-xperia-xz
[MUSIC]
“The Ballad of MrMobile.” Mobile Nations, 2016
“Killing Time” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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