The progenitor of the digital music player, the tape-based Walkman was extremely popular during the 1980s. It evolved into a portable CD player by the end of the decade. See Walkman. In the late ...

Unlike today's phones, whose processing power has to drive everything from GPS tracking and photo taking to video calls and internet browsing, portable music players (or DAPs: digital audio players ..

The Walkman music player supports playlists ... Direct sun shots have white-out on reflective surfaces which is a problem for most digital cameras. Overcast outdoor shots look a bit hazy but still ...

Listening to music offers an ... The very first Walkman was made of aluminum, only to be replaced later by plastic. They were similar in size to cassette players; however, they were portable.

Audiophiles have long looked down on digital music ... are really only two major players in the high-end portable music space: Astell & Kern and Sony (where the Walkman brand still lives on).

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Its new NW-WM1ZM2 may be the ultimate Walkman, but it'll cost you $ ... afford to drop the best part of four grand on a portable music player either. If you can, I'm quite sure you'll be delighted ...

The Sony Walkman was a cultural revolution, enabling people to play any song, anywhere, anytime --- long before similar freedom existed for movies, e-books, or video games.

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MiniDisc is just one of countless media formats that became obsolete when music went online. Not so for MiniDisc enthusiasts, many of whom still use a MiniDisc deck at home and a MiniDisc Walkman ...

You can't delete music files on the player. The Walkman's Play/Pause button is centered within the directional rocker pad, which is flanked by a Back button on the left and an Options button on ...

Stand on any street in your town and you'll witness a trend that began 30 years ago with the invention of the Walkman ... clunky players have evolved into credit card-sized digital music players ...