It seems that Sony has completely given up on trying to compete with the iPod with its Walkman or any other portable music player. How else can you explain the company selling iPod docks? If you can't beat them, join them, I suppose.
So Sony has two new products designed to get up close and personal with the iPod: the ZZ-S2iP BoomBox and the ICF-C1iP Clock Radio. The boombox has a built-in CD player and looks like a slightly updated version of the boombox I had in my bedroom in middle school, while the alarm clock looks more like your traditional Bose-esque iPod docks. How do they sound? Beats me, but for $100 you can try either of them out and find out for yourself.
