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Walkman
Series of portable media players by Sony / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Walkman (Japanese: ウォークマン, Hepburn: U~ōkuman), is a brand of portable audio players manufactured and marketed by Japanese company Sony since 1979. The original Walkman started out as a portable cassette player[3][4] and the brand was later extended to serve most of Sony's portable audio devices; since 2011 it consists exclusively of digital flash memory players. The current flagship product as of 2022 is the WM1ZM2 player.[5]
![]() Walkman logo since 2000 | |
Left to right from top: a cassette Walkman (1980s), a CD Walkman (2001), an MD Walkman (1998), a digital Walkman (2011) | |
Manufacturer | Sony Corporation |
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Type | Portable audio players and recorders |
Lifespan | July 1, 1979[1] – present |
Units sold | 385 million (all editions, as of March 31, 2009)[2] |
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Walkman cassette players were very popular during the 1980s, which led to "walkman" becoming an unofficial term for personal stereos of any producer or brand.[6] 220 million cassette-type Walkmen were sold by the end of production in 2010;[7] including digital Walkman devices such as DAT, MiniDisc, CD (originally Discman then renamed the CD Walkman) and memory-type media players,[8][9] it has sold approximately 400 million at this time.[7] The Walkman brand has also been applied to transistor radios, and Sony Ericsson mobile phones.