Sony Expands S-Series Walkman Further With S640, S740 Series

on September 16th, 2009 View Comments Printer-Friendly

Sony has confirmed our additional S-Series leak we posted recently with the introduction of the new NW-S640 (left) and NW-S740 (right) Walkman music players. These Walkman both have a 2.0 inch LCD, and the for the first time this generation the ability to output its display to TV at 720×480 (SD) resolution. One of the major features of the S740 series is noise canceling (non-digital), while both have expected things such as FM radio, Clear bass, Clear Stereo, and DSEE to color your sound. There is also word of lyric display, and playback speed control for those learning languages. We are also very pleased to report Sony is bundling the MDR-EX300SL earphones with this device. The NW-S740 series comes in black, gold, green, violet, and has 8GB (NW-S744, Y16,000), 16GB (NW-S745, Y19,000), and 32GB (NW-S746, Y25,000) capacities. Sony Japan is also selling a S740 Walkman and matching color speaker bundle, known as the NW-S744K (Y19,000) and NW-S745K (Y22,000).

The only difference between the Sony S640 and S740 Walkman lines, other than the colors, is that the S640 doesn’t have noise canceling. The NW-S644 (8GB, Y14,000) and NW-645 (16GB, Y17,000) also have included speaker bundles – NW-S644K (Y17,000) and NW-S645K (Y20,000).

The 8GB units will be available first on October 10th, while the others will arrive later that month on the 28th.

Battery life is pretty epic at 42 hours for music (128kbps mp3), and 10 hours video (384kbps MPEG-4). Codec support looks like MP3, WMA, AAC, HE-AAC, ATRAC, ATRAC AL, PCM/wav. I assume ATRAC support will probably be limited to Japan, but we are not sure yet. For movies, the usual AVC (H2.64), MPEG-4 and WMV are allowed.

Here is an introduction video courtesy of Sony Japan:

SonyStyle Japan released a picture of an exclusive limited edition model, the NW-S644 in pink:

This information, in English, is a Sony Insider exclusive brought to you here first.

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vsherry said:

This series finally brings Sony into the contemporary electronics market. It's not enough to make me regret my Archos 5 purchase, but it's nice to know if I wanted to revert to Sony, I'd have viable options.

-September 16th, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Marcio Lima said:

novo brinquedinho da Sony

-September 17th, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Helder said:

Now an excelent option. I was waiting for Sony to launch a new Walkman with the MDR-ex300sl, now they have, I'll just have to wait they sell it here

-September 17th, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Sony Owner said:

Sony still uses their Damn proprietary plug instead of a Mini-USB port!

Guess it also uses WMV for file ripping, album art tagging and playlist creation instead of creating their own?!

Sony makes good hardware but their software SUCKS!!

Adding insult to injury, their mp3 players are relatively expensive since most people will have to buy the media software separately, especially for those that HATE WMV, like myself!

Drag n drop is good but who the hell wants to look at the Sony logo instead of the song's album art?!

-September 24th, 2009 at 1:27 PM
lil_clover said:

I just bought mine a few days ago. IT's AWESOME~~ the screen is sooo crystal clear when I view my pictures and videos. the Sound quality from the speaker is soo clear too.Worth my money. And my choices was the Ipod or this sony NW-S644.

-October 14th, 2009 at 1:23 AM
Sony Owner said:

@Lil_clover

How and where did you buy yours? Which model?
What’s the cost??

It’s Not suppose to be sold outside of Japan (amazon.co.jp refuses to export it)!

-October 22nd, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Nomani said:

How did you buy one?? Isn't it supposed to be out in Japan on oct 31st?

Sony should launch it here in Canada…I want to buy one of these…There is so much demand of this product here…if they don't launch it here now then they will lose the market once more.

-October 25th, 2009 at 2:41 AM
Nomani said:

How did you buy one?? Isn't it supposed to be out in Japan on oct 31st?

Sony should launch it here in Canada…I want to buy one of these…There is so much demand of this product here…if they don't launch it here now then they will lose the market once more.

-October 25th, 2009 at 7:41 AM
lightrider said:

bought a S644 in Japan and brought it with me to Europe … unfort. there is no English on the device and it seems also to be no manual in English available … am I right?

-December 21st, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Ace said:

Are you sure there is no english menu ?

Coz i wanna get one, but if no english menu god its gonna be hard to use ….?

-January 2nd, 2010 at 12:09 PM
lightrider said:

Unfort. I'm pretty sure. Have found a manual for the S744 in English … the menu structure is quite the same, but the entry for “language settings” is missed in my S644

-January 5th, 2010 at 8:16 AM
Huong said:

Sorry, may I know your mean that S744 have English menu but S644 doen't have English language?

-January 25th, 2010 at 3:06 AM
Huong said:

Sorry, may I know your mean that S744 have English menu but S644 doen't have English language?

-January 25th, 2010 at 8:06 AM