It was the walkman brought into market in 1979 by Sony. Within the 80es it rose to an important status symbol and image building instrument within younger generations. As next highlight it was replaced by portable CD-players named as discman. They were loved by their users and were equipped with Anti Shock Functions so that it was saved versus shaking, so that one was able to listen to music without paying attention to interruptions.
MP3 Format exists since 1982. Meanwhile this format's part of all-day-live no matter if used in radio stream or any other music origin as well as recorded music. It is part of all day life of all generations meanwhile.
The MP3 players are available in different capacities. You can choose if it should have 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB, 30 GB, 60 GB or 80 GByte. Mp3 Players like Apple iPod Nano play music and represent pictures. Bigger players as Apple iPod Video offer an immense capacity like playing Videos (30, 60 or 80 GB). They have a bigger screen for movie and fun.
MP3 Player are available in different use-capacities, also. There are some with Flashdisc and some with a bigger hard disc. The hard discs generally are big. The most active producers are Apple, Sony, Samsung, Sandisk, RCA and lots of others.
The most popular product is Apples i-Pod. This serie exists in different sizes, and here almost all clients find the fitting iPod for their interest. New in market is the ? operating system Gigant Microsoft. The Zune Player has qualities similar to W-LAN etc.
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