The Sony Walkman Z series is a discontinued Android 2.3-based

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manufactured as a part of

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Walkman Walkman, stylised as , is a brand of portable audio players manufactured and marketed by Japanese technology company Sony since 1979. The original Walkman was a portable cassette player and its popularity made "walkman" an unofficial term for p ...

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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Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, 512

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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 Walkman F Series was introduced as its replacement.

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