Sony NW-A300 and NW-ZX700 Walkmans to Receive Android 13 Upgrade?

The previous NW-A100 and NW-ZX500 Walkmans never received any Android updates, only security patches. Whether this was related to the SoC is unknown, but this is my suspicion. The new models are on Qualcomm SoCs which should have better Android support.

Now thanks to Ed, we know that Sony is testing Android 13 on the new A and ZX Walkmans. We have Geekbench results which shows the A100 and ZX700 with Android 13.

The first NW-A300 Geekbench result with Android 13 is from early July.

There are further results, with the latest benchmark from September 14th. So Sony is testing the update still. Hopefully we will have a full release soon.

Same story for the NW-ZX700, first benchmark results in July, with further benchmarks until September 12th.

The scores are similar between Android 12 and 13, but there are some differences between 12 and 13, which you read up here.

So if you own a new A300 or ZX700, Android 13 is in your future, when I do not know.

Source: NW-A300 Geekbench, NW-ZX700 Geekbench