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What' s the best Sony Walkman? Perhaps one of the following models. Check out this history of the once-popular consumer product.
[Daniel Rojas] cleverly solved this problem by directly adding Bluetooth functionality to a Sony MZ-R500 MiniDisc Walkman. MiniDisc Walkmen are famously compact devices, so adding a full circuit ...
Sony celebrated the Walkman's birthday last week by introducing two new portable music players, a Walkman with a 20-GB hard drive, and the Vaio Pocket music player with a 40-GB hard drive, both ...
There were also Walkman MiniDisc players, and though MiniDisc was popular in Japan the format flopped in the US. But all good things must come to an end.
And speaking of battery life, Hi-MD Walkman players let music fans make the most of all that capacity by providing up to 30 hours of continuous playback using just one "AA" battery (MZ-NH600D and ...
From Sony's first models, through to that yellow one you could take in the shower, the Walkman range was THE gadget of the 80s and 90s, and we all wanted one like the kids want smartphones today.
It's the end of an era for Sony's MiniDisc Walkman player, an era you may not have realized was underway. It doesn't matter now anyway, because Sony is reportedly stopping shipments of its soon-to ...
Sony Walkman, the Apple iPhone of its day is enjoying a nostalgia-fueled renaissance, as collectors and buyers scour the internet and street markets of Asia to find the most pristine models of the ...
But with the original Sony Walkman – the Sony TPS-L2 – turning 45 years old today, it’s time to recognize it for what it is: the most iconic gadget of all time.
Where do you put the cassette tape? New Sony Walkman music players feature stunning good looks, Android 12 Sony holds onto the beautiful dream of standalone portable audio players.
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.
The pocket cassette players and accompanying on-ear headphones that Sony launched in 1979 changed the way we consume music, morphing to MiniDisc and CD formats before going digital 20 years after ...