You may remember Sony's announcement a while back where they said they'll be adding MP3 support to their flash-based players, most likely via a firmware update.

Well guess what? According to a "news flash" over at ITmedia [1], Sony is "examining" adding native MP3 support to their hard-drive based players. We previously covered the NW-HD1 [2], NW-HD2 [3], and VAIO pocket [4] here at TechJapan.