January 17, 2008 3:52 AM PST
Sony's new MP3 player takes dictation
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Sony)
Well, that's one way to do it. After having lost so badly to Apple in the Walkman World it once dominated, Sony is at least making some music with alternative devices. But its latest player is one we never saw coming: a dictation recorder.
Tech Digest says it has only 1GB or 2GB of built-in storage, so you may still want to hang onto your regular MP3 player--after all, you'll presumably want to use some of that space for voice recording too. But it looks a lot better than other attempts by Sony, most notably the "Walkman Bean." Besides, if you really want to relive Sony's glory days in music, there's always this gold-plated cassette version.
