Sony axes 'Walkman' brand from Xperia music player app
Whether you're a music enthusiast, there's a decent risk you've claimed a Sony Walkman eventually. Maybe you're nostalgic towards the brand which got to be synonymous with listening to music on-the-go in the 1980s and 1990s. As of not long ago, Sony kept paying tribute to the Walkman by giving it a chance to live on as the authority music player application in the Xperia cell phone territory, yet no more.
At MWC 2015, Sony divulged its most recent Xperia items - the Xperia Z4 tablet and Xperia M4 Aqua telephone. Android Central recognized that both of the new gadgets have supplanted the celebrated Walkman application and logo with a "Music" application. Without function or an authority farewell, the previous face of versatile music has been driven out through the indirect access.
While us premillenials may save a couple of seconds of thought for the Walkman, the smooth reconciliation of music players into cell phones has evacuated the need to treat music players as discrete items. Mac officially quit naming its iPhone music application as "iPod" in 2011, so maybe it was high time Sony did likewise for Walkman.
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Sony as of late conceded that its portable division was no more a need in the organization's future, throwing questions over the eventual fate of the Xperia range. Could the expulsion of the Walkman from Xperia gadgets additionally be a sign that Sony's separating itself from the agitated Xperia mark, or was the Walkman's retirement long past due?
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| Sony axes 'Walkman' brand from Xperia music player app |
At MWC 2015, Sony divulged its most recent Xperia items - the Xperia Z4 tablet and Xperia M4 Aqua telephone. Android Central recognized that both of the new gadgets have supplanted the celebrated Walkman application and logo with a "Music" application. Without function or an authority farewell, the previous face of versatile music has been driven out through the indirect access.
While us premillenials may save a couple of seconds of thought for the Walkman, the smooth reconciliation of music players into cell phones has evacuated the need to treat music players as discrete items. Mac officially quit naming its iPhone music application as "iPod" in 2011, so maybe it was high time Sony did likewise for Walkman.
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Sony as of late conceded that its portable division was no more a need in the organization's future, throwing questions over the eventual fate of the Xperia range. Could the expulsion of the Walkman from Xperia gadgets additionally be a sign that Sony's separating itself from the agitated Xperia mark, or was the Walkman's retirement long past due?
Sony axes 'Walkman' brand from Xperia music player app
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