What does music mean to you???
Well have you ever wondered the history of the"Walkman", "Pressman", "Watchman", "Scoopman", "Discman", and "Talkman" which are trademarks of Sony then how walkman the emerged to be Walkman-branded telephones W300, W710, W850i, so that now we have a combination of a cell phone which can receive phone calls, send sms, and take photo’s at the same time have a music player with all our favorite music lists.
Lets go down memory lane and see where it all started.
This is where Sony walkman came from:
In 1972 the genius German-Brazilian Andreas Pavel invented the first portable personal stereo audio cassette player, called Stereo belt,
In 1979: TPS-L2 went on sale in Japan it consisted of stereo playback and two mini headphone jacks, the Walkman had a "hotline" button which activated a small built-in microphone, allowing one user to talk to the other over the music.
In 1984: The highest quality Sony Walkman recording cassette deck was the Walkman Professional WM-D6C it had bright LED recording level meters and manual control of recording levels. Was widely used by journalists.
In 1972 the genius German-Brazilian Andreas Pavel invented the first portable personal stereo audio cassette player, called Stereo belt,
In 1979: TPS-L2 went on sale in Japan it consisted of stereo playback and two mini headphone jacks, the Walkman had a "hotline" button which activated a small built-in microphone, allowing one user to talk to the other over the music.
In 1984: The highest quality Sony Walkman recording cassette deck was the Walkman Professional WM-D6C it had bright LED recording level meters and manual control of recording levels. Was widely used by journalists.In 1984: The first CD based Walkman was initially launched the D-50 (D-5 in some markets). It was officially called the 'Discman
In 1990: The cassette-based Walkman was generally passed over in favor of the emerging digital technologies of CD, DAT and MiniDisc. 
Sony continued making CD Walkmans — the newer models are capable of playing ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and MP3 CDs, and have become progressively thinner and more compact with each revision.
In 2003: The NW-MS70D was released as Sony's first hit at the MP3 player industry.
But Sony was continuously competing with I pod who was leading with their music walkmans (I pods). So accepting that they have been defeated Sony´s last attempt to revive the walkman brand included a variety of music-centered mobile phones marketed under the Sony Ericson brand.
The first being the W800 and W550/W600 have numerous audio capabilities including play lists, audio equalization, support for the M4A audio file format, and the ability to operate only as music player, with the telephony electronics switched off. It also includes standard mobile phone features, such as a 2 megapixel auto-focus camera. The W550/W600 had 256 MB of internal memory,
while the W800 includes a 512 MB Memory Stick.
The popularity of Walkman-branded telephones indicates that the portable audio and mobile telephone markets have converged. Walkman phones since the launch in September 2005. Sony Ericsson is seen to have had the most success with converging music and mobile phones, largely attributed to the man by the name of Andreas Pavel with the Walkman heritage and expertise from Sony.
Sony continued making CD Walkmans — the newer models are capable of playing ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and MP3 CDs, and have become progressively thinner and more compact with each revision.
In 2003: The NW-MS70D was released as Sony's first hit at the MP3 player industry.
But Sony was continuously competing with I pod who was leading with their music walkmans (I pods). So accepting that they have been defeated Sony´s last attempt to revive the walkman brand included a variety of music-centered mobile phones marketed under the Sony Ericson brand.
The first being the W800 and W550/W600 have numerous audio capabilities including play lists, audio equalization, support for the M4A audio file format, and the ability to operate only as music player, with the telephony electronics switched off. It also includes standard mobile phone features, such as a 2 megapixel auto-focus camera. The W550/W600 had 256 MB of internal memory,
while the W800 includes a 512 MB Memory Stick.
The popularity of Walkman-branded telephones indicates that the portable audio and mobile telephone markets have converged. Walkman phones since the launch in September 2005. Sony Ericsson is seen to have had the most success with converging music and mobile phones, largely attributed to the man by the name of Andreas Pavel with the Walkman heritage and expertise from Sony.
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