UPDATE 12/07/2006:

I found out today that I didn’t have the story exactly right, at least for the US market. In the US, the Sony Walkman is available in violet and pink colors and has an 8GB capacity allowing it to store up to 5,300 songs. Retail price is $199.95.

If you would like to learn more about the new walkman you can visit SonyStyleUSA

For those of you in the UK, here’s the information from Sony’s UK web site:

New Sony Walkman will be available in two capacity sizes – 20GB and 6GB, and also features two new shuffle functions. By selecting ‘My Favorite Shuffle,’ the Sony MP3 player automatically selects the most listened to 100 songs and plays them at random. The ‘Time Machine Shuffle’ function randomly selects a year and plays all of the songs from that particular year that are currently held on the device.

The 20GB Sony WALKMAN is available in two colors, violet and silver; while the 6GB unit comes in the additional colors of pink and blue.