  The NW-X1000 players will go on sale worldwide beginning this
month in Japan and on Tuesday I got a chance to try one out.
It's been a while since I tested a new Walkman so anticipation
was high for the new models and I came away impressed.  Among
the features packed into the palm-sized players that Sony is
emphasizing most is the noise cancelling. The digital system is
said to cut 98 percent and it worked surprisingly well during a
Sony news conference.  While listening to a song with the
supplied earbuds I could barely hear any other noise. The only
thing I could hear -- and then at a very quiet level -- was the
voice of a presenter who was speaking through a microphone. Sony
says it's high-end noise cancelling headphones cut 99 percent of
noise, so the new Walkman is almost as good.  The device itself
is small and all features are accessed through a touch-driven
user-interface. A button under the display always takes you to
the home screen from where you can access the main functions.
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