Sony outs Lightning-friendly speaker dock in Japan, alarm clock and radio features in tow

Sony outs Lightningfriendly speaker dock in Japan, alarm clock and radio features in tow

Sony may have unveiled a slew of new audio products back at CES 2013, but the company has been relatively quiet when it comes to launching ones that are compatible with Apple’s novel Lightning connector. That being said, it looks as if folks in the Land of the Rising Sun will soon be able to pair their current-gen iOS device with a dock from the PlayStation maker, thanks to the recently announced SRS-GC11IP. Pictured above, this little 0.8W speaker isn’t loaded with fancy features like Bluetooth 4.0 or WiFi, but it does offer convenient functions such as an alarm clock and AM / FM radio — these, of course, go along with the ability to also play tunes straight from a Lighting-ready iDevice or, with the proper RDP-NWC11 model, a new-era Walkman and many different smartphones. Whether we’ll ever see the as-yet-unpriced tubular peripheral hit other markets, well, that still remains to be seen, with Sony only going so far as to listing it as “coming soon” on its Japanese website.

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Sony – Walkman dock music player/alarm clock/speaker – wake up with your favorite music in your Walkman – RDP-NWC11

Sony - Walkman dock music player/alarm clock/speaker - wake up with your favorite music in your Walkman - RDP-NWC11

Sony will soon release a music player/alarm clock/speaker made specifically for docking by digital Walkman music players to play music.

The alarm feature allows you to choose music from your Walkman to be what you wake up to.

It has a retractable cover, so it can stay closed when you don’t use the Walkman port so it won’t get dusty.

There are some other external terminals, so you can play music from a smartphone or other device as well.

Price: 6,980 yen
Color: white, black
Size: 126 × 92 × 100mm
Weight: 482g