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Panasonic is set to introduce dockability to its D-snap brand DAPs, as well as super-fast data transfer speeds.
The company will start selling two new D-snap models, the SV-SD800N and the SV-SD400V, which will land in shops September 8 along with two D-dock SD micro stereo systems, the SC-SX850 and SC-SX450. The SD800N D-snap can nestle into both D-docks, and it gets a 3-hour charge after only 10 minutes in the mothership.
The 35.1 x 86.9 x 10.2 mm, 38.5g SD800N (about ¥20,000) and SD400V (approx. ¥16,000) come with closed-type headphones, so you can have a blast and not get some doddery Japanese senior to give you a dirty look. They (the players, not the oldies) also take 4GB SHDC cards.
The SX850 D-dock has a built-in 160GB hard disk drive while the SX450’s HDD weighs in at 80GB. The docks are also supposed to have the world’s fastest high-speed copying capability at 12X from the CD to HDD, and should, says Panny, write from the HDD to the SD card at 16X. But the SX850 and SX450 won’t come cheap at about ¥80,000 and ¥65,000 respectively.
Update: Panasonic actually got it wrong yesterday — both D-snaps actually dock. Not our fault — honest guv!
11:30 PM 
Paul Kallender •
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