Sony announced it’s NW-A820 WalkMan player for release in Asia in March. It’s European/US brother, the NWZ-A820, is now available for preorder on Sony Style for a few countries like Germany and Sweden. As expected, it doesn’t seem to be listed with noise cancelling features like its Asian brother has, but on the positive side it’s bundled with decent quality IEMs - most likely the same MDR-EX08

Sony has expanded its innovative WALKMAN line of digital media players with the high-performance, easy-to-use WALKMAN NWZ-A820 series, including NWZ-A829 (16GB), NWZ-A828 (8GB) and NWZ-A826 (4GB). The new Walkman featuring the clear, bright 2.4-inch QVGA screen display for high quality 30fps (frames per second) video playback and bluetooth connectivity for wireless music enjoyment. ”

Sony NWZ-A820 Review from mydigitalllife “The newly revealed Sony Walkman NWZ-A820 Series portable media player which available in a choice of four colour variations including black, silver, gold, and pink will hit the market from April 2008. According to the company, all of them can support up to 10 hours battery life for video or a whopping 36 hours for music playback. Even with Bluetooth stereo enabled, playback stretches to 7 hours of video or 15 hours of music”

Sony NWZ-A820 Review from Pocket-lint “With a 2.4-inch screen, an “extra-long” battery life and wireless Bluetooth headphones the black NWZ-A820 is available in two sizes, the NWZ-A828 with 8GB of storage claims to offers 30 hours and 40 mins of video/audio or 1850 songs while the 4GB NWZ-A826 gives you 15 hours of video or 925 songs.”

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