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Sony’s official Rolly blog has confirmed what we already thought: Rolly is in fact a digital audio player without a display. They also claim that it has only one button which controls the “play / stop” of audio and is “basically the only button you use.” Although this picture shows what appears to be a cluster of three in addition to a glowing blue, elliptical button. Of course, as we’ve seen in the Walkman W910 phone, Sony offers other ways to control music without buttons. Namely, an accelerometer coupled with Sony’s new Shake control software would allow you to flick the Rolly right or left to advance or jump-back tracks; shake it to shuffle-up the music. That would be particularly useful in Bluetooth-shy Japan where Rolly is being heavily marketed. Whatever the case, Rolly is surely more than just a DAP as we’ve seen in the video, but this is as much as Sony will own-up to for the time being.

 

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Ok inspectors Engadget, here’s Sony’s Rolly back for an encore. We went frame-by-frame through our higher quality copy of the video to try and understand our little friend just a wee bit better. From what we can tell, this thing really moves. At first we thought maybe, just maybe we were looking at some slick animation of a static device. Not anymore, those two protruding rings provide the locomotion while each end of the egg spins freely of both the rings and that Sony branded trunk. They’ve also stuffed a pair of speakers into each end and covered them by those independently juddering end-caps. The device itself is very clean. A Sony logo is printed front-center; a Rolly logo 180-degrees opposite next to a small, possibly 3-button control panel; a (sometimes) illuminated blue ellipse bottom-center, and some unidentified jacks (or just a lanyard anchor, perhaps) up top. There’s no display anywhere to be found. Take a look at the gallery and let us know what you think: Bluetooth speaker-bot, full blown DAP, a Sony / ZMP hookup, or something else entirely more menacing than even ATRAC?

 

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More as we get it.

 

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Remember Sony’s rumored Rolly something-or-other? Well, it’s official with a full-blown Rolly teaser campaign launched by Sony in Japan. No details other than confirmation of its audio entertainment roots. By the looks of things, we’ll be getting the full poop around September 10th when the “Rolly Special Party” kicks off. Gotta say, it’s been awhile since we’ve seen Sony market a new product so heavily. And with keywords such as “communication,” “small,” “share,” “free,” “shuffle,” and “kurukuru” (translated: go round and round) splattered around the page, color us intrigued — although barely after being subjected to a gaggle of giggling chicks in the throws of the chicken dance. See what we mean after the break, if you dare.

[Via Engadget Japanese]

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We’ve got the rumor mill to thank for this one, but an elusive video (since removed, go figure) reportedly depicted a newfangled Walkman in the shape of an egg. ‘Course, this form factor certainly isn’t new for a DAP, but it sounds like Sony may be giving it a whirl with the introduction of the “Rolly,” which a snippet of is displayed above. Little is currently known (or presumed) about the device at the moment, but we are hearing that it will boast an integrated speaker for whatever that’s worth. We’ll be keeping an ear to the ground for further developments.

[Via Pocket-Lint, thanks Elliott]

 

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