The Sony Walkman Z series is a discontinued

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manufactured as a part of

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Walkman is a brand of Personal stereo, portable audio players manufactured by Sony since 1979. It was originally introduced as a portable Compact Cassette, cassette player and later expanded to include a range of portable audio products. Since 2011, ...

line of music players. First announced in Japan on September 13, 2011, and going on sale the following December, it was announced for an American release by mid-2012 at the 2012

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. It was the first Walkman that ran on the Android operating system. The device was available in 8, 16, 32 and 64

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versions, and is equipped with a dual core one

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of RAM, a screen, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS capabilities and a gyroscope. The 64

versions are only available in some countries. It sports Sony's proprietary S-Master MX digital amplifier, and supports various audio and video formats. Some Japan models also include noise cancelling, as seen on the previous Walkman X series. Only one generation of the Z series (NWZ-Z1000) was released, and in 2012 the

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was introduced as its replacement.

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