Sony has doggedly stuck to its guns with its Walkman range, persisting for four decades with personal music players that have tackled first tapes, then DATs, MiniDiscs, CDs, and finally mp3s (with an ...

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 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 ...

The long history of the Walkman is taking a new twist with the first Android-enabled PMP. The Sony Z-Series Walkman with Android will be out in February Sony's iconic Walkman player has always ...

It's the Walkman ... tape player defined the decade when legwarmers weren't part of costumes and Reaganomics ruled the land. It was the first device that allowed listeners to take music with ...

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 ...

First it was vinyl, and now it’s cassettes that all the cool kids want, as nostalgia takes over the music world ... helped by the once ubiquitous Sony Walkman appearing in hit movies and ...