(12 June 2008 10:00 pm)

MUMBAI: Sony India has launched the NWZ-A726 Video MP3 Walkman, offering video resolution and brightness, along with sound and a "strong battery life."

The features of the product include music, photo and video playback.

On the audio end of things, the A720 supports WMA, AAC, linear PCM and MP3 music formats. It also supports JPEG files for photos, along with the AVC (H.264/AVC) baseline profile and MPEG-4 video codecs.

Also, it has 13 EX headphones to "improve sound quality" when playing back digital music files.

Furthermore, the product has a bigger 2.4-inch QVGA (320 by 240 pixels) LCD screen that displays video at 30 frames per second (either in landscape or portrait view). Also audio and video files are automatically bookmarked when the player is stopped or shut down.

The product has a standard user interface. The square four-way navigation pad on the NWZ-A726 is flanked by two small option and menu buttons. All other buttons are confined to the right side of the player, including a rocker switch for volume control and a hold switch.

The bottom of the NWZ-A726 Video MP3 Walkman features a headphone output and proprietary USB connection. The NWZ-A726 has a battery life of 36 hours of audio playback and 10 hours of video that can store up to 925 songs (songs on an average of four minutes in length at 128kbps in the MP3 format).