Portable media player
Portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files.
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Consumer electronics
Consumer electronics or home electronics are electronic (analog or digital) equipment intended for everyday use, typically in private homes.
Later products included telephones, televisions, and calculators, then audio and video recorders and players, game consoles, mobile phones, personal computers and MP3 players.
Flash memory
Electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.
Flash memory is used in computers, PDAs, digital audio players, digital cameras, mobile phones, synthesizers, video games, scientific instrumentation, industrial robotics, and medical electronics.
IPod
About the series.
The iPod is a discontinued series of portable media players and multi-purpose mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first version was released on October 23, 2001, about 8 1⁄2 months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released.
Headphones
Headphones are a pair of small loudspeaker drivers worn on or around the head over a user's ears.
Headphones connect to a signal source such as an audio amplifier, radio, CD player, portable media player, mobile phone, video game console, or electronic musical instrument, either directly using a cord, or using wireless technology such as Bluetooth, DECT or FM radio.
IPod Touch
Discontinued line of iOS-based mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. with a touchscreen-controlled user interface.
As with other iPod models, the iPod Touch can be used as a music player and a handheld gaming device, but can also be used as a digital camera, a web browser and for messaging.
Walkman
Brand of portable audio players manufactured and marketed by Sony since 1979.
The Walkman brand was extended to serve most of Sony's portable audio devices, including DAT players, MiniDisc players/recorders, CD players (originally Discman then renamed the CD Walkman), transistor radios, mobile phones, and digital audio/media players.
MP3
Coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere.
With the advent of portable media players, a product category also including smartphones, MP3 support remains near-universal.
Cassette tape
Analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.
Like the transistor radio in the 1950s and 1960s, the portable CD player in the 1990s, and the MP3 player in the 2000s, the Walkman defined the portable music market for the decade of the '80s, with cassette sales overtaking those of LPs.
USB flash drive
Data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface.
Some devices combine the functionality of a portable media player with USB flash storage; they require a battery only when used to play music on the go.
Audible (service)
American online audiobook and podcast service that allows users to purchase and stream audiobooks and other forms of spoken word content.
The company's first product was an eponymous portable media player known as the Audible MobilePlayer; released in 1997, the device contained around four megabytes of on-board flash memory storage, which could hold up to two hours of audio.