(It retailed for $200.) At the time, transistor radios were portable, but there was nothing widely available like the Walkman. It was developed under the stewardship of Sony founders Akio Morita ...

Morita wanted the new device to be marketed to teenagers; he had seen teens lug radios and boomboxes to ... By the time Sony stopped manufacturing the Walkman portable cassette players in 2010 ...

The Walkman line broadened into several generations of products that played tapes, the radio and CDs. "They defined portable music with the Walkman," Doherty said. Apple, capitalizing on the ...

The Walkman provides offline radio access, allowing users to disconnect ... But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy pleasures like portable music if you're able to access it in an offline format.

It played back radio audio, of course ... to call himself the inventor of the personal portable stereo player. My own memories of the Walkman’s arrival are filtered through the haze of a ...

“To this day, I still see the simplicity and user centric design of the Walkman in portable music products ... a time when stereos blasted muffled radio static into the open air. “ ...

The device is very lightweight, has an FM radio ... The Sony Walkman is largely unchanged from how it was in the 2000s, which is when we really moved from carrying around portable tape players ...

Sony Walkman NW-E505/507 (2005): it’s an MP3 player In 2005, Sony released the NW-E505 and NW-E507, which were portable digital audio players (DAPs). These Walkmans were the first to have a built-in ...

which only allows for AM/FM radio play. This Walkman is extremely compact and light, making it great for portable use. It even comes with a pair of Sony Fontopia earbuds. The NW-E394 is one of ...

Before the Walkman, the iPod or the iPhone ... an alternate material that could function reliably in a small, portable radio. “In the spring of 1954, they said, ‘Let’s get a program together ...