Yesterday we argued that the old-school PMP might be dead , but Sony sure doesn’t think so. It’s just updated its S-series with two 2-inch LCD Walkmans that include the new 720×480 TV-out and noise-cancelling features built into the upcoming A-Series . Apart from being colored differently, the NW-S640 (top left) and the NW-S740 (top right) are pretty much identical, though the S640 lacks noise canceling. The players have an FM radio, usual codec support, and an eye-opening stated battery life of 42 hours for music, and 10 hours for video. They also come with premium MDR-EX300SL earphones, and a matching speaker bundle will be available when they arrive in Japan in October

Yesterday we argued that the old-school PMP might be dead , but Sony sure doesn’t think so. It’s just updated its S-series with two 2-inch LCD Walkmans that include the new 720×480 TV-out and noise-canceling features built into the upcoming A-Series . Apart from being colored differently, the NW-S640 (top left) and the NW-S740 (top right) are pretty much identical, though the S640 lacks noise canceling. The players have an FM radio, usual codec support, and an eye-opening stated battery life of 42 hours for music, and 10 hours for video. They also come with premium MDR-EX300SL earphones, and a matching speaker bundle will be available when they arrive in Japan in October.

The pretty player has a 2.8-inch OLED screen (240×400), FM radio, TV-out, noise canceling, and is beautifully thin at 7.2mm. Oh, and it only weighs 2.2 ounces. But unlike the failed X-Series , the A has no touch screen or Wi-Fi. Along with standard codec support, there’s also new drag and drop feature that auto-transcodes video from your computer. And in Japan at least, the player comes with premium MDR-EX300SL earphones. Battery life is listed as 29 hours for music, and 9 hours for video