{"id":21813,"date":"2015-01-08T10:33:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T16:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=21813"},"modified":"2015-01-08T13:47:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:47:11","slug":"ces-2015-brings-the-nostalgia-factor-with-polaroid-sony-dell-and-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/ces-2015-brings-the-nostalgia-factor-with-polaroid-sony-dell-and-palm\/","title":{"rendered":"CES 2015 Brings The Nostalgia Factor With Polaroid, Sony, Dell, And Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"
You may have noticed a lack of CES 2015 coverage on Techcitement. To be honest, it’s all been a bit overwhelming. So far, many of our favorite companies have announced impressive new devices. We’re dying to test them all. One thing that’s struck us is how many devices at an event that looks at upcoming consumer tech are, indeed, looking back.<\/p>\n
Take Sony. After the absolute king of consumer electronics, Sony, has long since been eclipsed by rivals. The most iconic Sony brand is arguably the Walkman, the first mainstream portable cassette player. If you’re a child of the 80s or 90s (or just saw\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>), you’re aware how ubiquitous these were. Even non-Sony devices were called walkmen (a.k.a. Band-Aid becoming a generic name for adhesive bandage strips). Sony tried plastering the Walkman name on smartphones for a bit, but those failed to sell and the smartphone arm has been spun off. Even though the brand never exactly went away<\/a>, it may as well have. Until now. Sony is bringing the focus back on the name with a $1,120 audio player<\/a>. Yeah, you’re not going to find this at the local corner electronics store so fast. Sony’s marketing department will gladly explain all the reasons why<\/a> you should pay such an exorbitant amount for a 128 GB music player running an outdated version of Android, but at the end of the day, it boils down to this: It’s meant to be a status symbol. Something Sony devices have arguably not been since the mid to late 90s.<\/p>\n