The Sony Walkman WM-FX290W was the last portable cassette player to launch in the United States. It came equipped with a digital tuner that had 40 station presets and even a weather band. Additionally ...

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 ...

It's been over 20 years since Sony released a cassette player, and cassette sales are so minuscule they barely show up on ...

This cassette player, tape recorder, and radio is marketed as being like the Sony Walkman cassette player, being a portable ...

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.

The iPod may be the popular portable music player in 2010, but Sony broke that ground with the original Walkman. Now, after three decades, the Sony Walkman vanishes into the recycling bin of history.

More than 30 years later, the cassette Walkman has been rendered an anachronism by MP3 players and iPods. Demand for cassette players in Japan is now largely limited to elderly users.

The Walkman NW-A105 price hasn’t been announced yet, but a release in time for Christmas is expected. Rock and Metal Stars in the ‘80s, Then and Now Categories : News ...

Sony is rolling out a fresh addition to its Walkman family, the NW-A306. This new model comes 44 years after Sony released the original Walkman, the TPS-L2, which changed how we listen to music ...

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 ...

Largely thanks to the boombox (first released in 1966) and the iconic Sony Walkman (first released in 1979), cassette tapes allowed you to listen to music outside your home and wherever you like. In ...

Sony's transparent Walkman would be a hit in today's trendy TikTok world. Let's see what a brave designer envisioned.