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On July 1, 1979, Sony Corp. introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2, a 14 ounce, blue-and-silver, portable cassette player with chunky buttons, headphones and a leather case.
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At the time of the Sony Walkman TPS-L2's launch in 1979, Sony co-founder Akio Morita said: “This is the product that will satisfy those young people who want to listen to music all day. They ...
Sony's Walkman Sports MP3 Player will be available in blue, pink, white, and black and is set to be released in March at a price of US$99.99.
Walkman is back at this year’s CES, but decidedly less high-end — and a whole lot more colorful. The new Walkman A26 comes in six new colors: grey, blue, red, purple, white, and lime green.
The Walkman débuted in Japan, in 1979, to near silence. But, within a year and a half, Sony would produce and sell two million of them. Photograph from Alamy ...
The Sony Walkman may no longer be relevant in today's digital-first content media consumption era, but the product line has cemented itself as an iconic staple of tech gadget history.
Back in 1979, Sony cofounder Masaru Ibuka was looking for a way to listen to classical music on long-haul flights. In response, his company’s engineers dreamed up the Walkman, ordering 30,000 ...
But Sony will have to pack all of the sentimentality of the Walkman into a modern device. That means Sony has a big pair of Air Jordans to fill with the NW-A306. The subtle quirkiness of legacy ...
Sony credits founder Akio Morita with the concept of the portable music player, popularly known as the Walkman. But the firm has just paid several million euros to a German inventor who patented ...
Sony Walkman E394, a simple DAP, is a nostalgic tech piece with a retro feel in today's multiple-feature era. The device is very lightweight, has an FM radio, and is easy to use, which appeals to ...