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The Sony Walkman WM-2 cassette player was the second Walkman model. It was the world’s smallest stereo cassette player at that time, selling over 1.5 million units. The designers aimed to make it ...
Another iconic technological device has been banished to the dustbin of history: Sony will no longer produce its Walkman cassette player due to dismal sales. The final batch of the portable tape ...
Today, Sony continues to produce and market products under the Walkman brand. Cassette-based units gave way to CD 'Diskman' models in the 2000s, and its legacy currently lives on in the form of ...
Sony's original Walkman (which played cassette tapes) launched way back in 1979 – that's 44 years ago. But you may not have realised that Sony has been releasing new Walkman models for years.
It's been over 20 years since Sony released a cassette player, and cassette sales are so minuscule they barely show up on ...
The Sony Walkman WM-AF59 combined auto-reverse cassette playback with an integrated AM/FM radio tuner. As a sports model, it offered waterproofing and was rated for 7 hours of playback using two ...
Sony is rolling out a fresh addition to its Walkman family, the NW-A306. This new model comes 44 ... the Sony Walkman has sold over 400 million units, with 200 million being cassette players. ...
The Sony Walkman is an iconic device that was best known for playing music on cassette tapes in the 1980s. In 2023 it's a high-end digital music player.
FiiO, a brand we normally associate with cutting-edge DACs and desktop streamers (such as the new R9), has gone retro.The brand revealed a surprise new personal cassette player, the CP13 – not too ...
Now, with cassette sales growing in the US in 2022, the Walkman has returned as a hi-res streaming player. Available in two models – the NW-ZX707 and NW-A306 – Sony claim the new Walkman ...
Tokyo - After three decades and more than 220 million units, Sony has stopped selling its Walkman cassette player in Japan, the company said Monday, admitting the gadget could not keep up in the ...
Sony's original Walkman (which played cassette tapes) launched way back in 1979 – that's 44 years ago. But you may not have realised that Sony has been releasing new Walkman models for years.