NW-F805

The NW-F805 is a first-generation F Series Network Walkman serving as the de facto successor to the A Series during Sony's Android Walkman period. It offers 16 GB storage for MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, and WAV files on an 800x480 TFT display with a 25-hour lithium-ion battery. Android 4.0 powered touchscreen control, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, FM radio, speaker output, WM-PORT, video and photo playback, Clear Audio+, DSEE, and the Walkman Classics Application.

This model is part of the first F Series, which is part of the most revealing branches in the entire late Walkman story because it shows Sony trying to build a more compact, more approachable Android Walkman than the Z1000 line. Where the Z models often felt like a statement product, the F line was an attempt to make that broader modernized Walkman idea livable on a smaller, more realistic scale. Android, touch, apps, wireless, and broader file flexibility push the F Series into a very different emotional category from the button-driven lines that still existed beside it.