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Tom Porter, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 4:46 pm UTC

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The UK version came with a twin headphone jack (for dual listening) and a 'Hotline' button which 'partially overrides the sound from the cassette' (for conversing while dual listening). Unfortunately, both features were ditched for the follow-up Walkman II.
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