Today, every smartphone is a portable media player; however, prior to the smartphone explosion in the 2007-2012 time frame, a variety of handheld players were available to store and play music.

Nostalgia is all the rage in the tech sector. Now, a Chinese manufacturer is revisiting the portable CD player, a device that took the world by storm in the '80s and '90s. For several years now ...

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) ...

Prior to its introduction, portable CD players were notorious for ... necessity amid the rise of flash-based MP3 players. These newer devices could store entire music libraries in solid-state ...