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- Walkman abstract "Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette players in the late 1970s. In the 2010s, it was used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a line of former Sony Ericsson mobile phones. The original Walkman actually introduced a change in music listening habits by allowing people to carry recorded music with them and listen to music through lightweight headphones. Owners of the Walkman were able to take back their \"lost\" time, commuting for example, and turn it into a pleasurable experience, or add a soundtrack to their urban surroundings. It was the privatization and personalization offered by the Walkman that lead to its success. The prototype was built in 1978 by audio-division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara for Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka. Ibuka wanted to be able to listen to operas during his frequent trans-Pacific plane trips, and presented the idea to Kihara. The original idea for a portable stereo is credited to Brazilian-German inventor Andreas Pavel. The first Walkman was marketed in 1979 in Japan, using the name Walkman. From 1980, it was known as the Soundabout in many other countries including the US, Freestyle in Sweden and was called the Stowaway in the UK. Advertising, despite all the foreign languages, still attracted thousands of buyers in the US specifically. Sony President and co-founder Akio Morita hated the name \"Walkman\" and asked that it be changed, but relented after being told by junior executives that a promotion campaign had already begun using the brand name and that it would be too expensive to change.The names \"Walkman\", \"Pressman\", \"Watchman\", \"Scoopman\", \"Discman\", and \"Talkman\" are trademarks of Sony, and have been applied to a wide range of portable entertainment devices manufactured by the company. The name \"Walkman\" was based on its precursor, the Pressman tape recorder. An initial prototype of the Walkman was in fact made by replacing the recording circuit and speaker from the Pressman with a stereo amplifier. Sony continues to use the \"Walkman\" brand name for most of their portable audio devices, after the \"Discman\" name for CD players was dropped in the late 1990s.".
- Walkman manufacturer Sony.
- Walkman thumbnail Walkman_line-up.png?width=300.
- Walkman type Portable_media_player.
- Walkman wikiPageExternalLink www.sony.com.
- Walkman wikiPageExternalLink books?id=Gop0dQGKm5sC.
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- Walkman wikiPageLength "30472".
- Walkman wikiPageOutDegree "105".
- Walkman wikiPageRevisionID "707321536".
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink 3G.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink 8_mm_video_format.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink AA_battery.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Adaptive_Transform_Acoustic_Coding.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Advanced_Audio_Coding.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Akio_Morita.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Andreas_Pavel.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Android_(operating_system).
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Apple_Inc..
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Audio_frequency.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink BBC.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink CLIÉ.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink CNN.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Category:1979_introductions.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Category:1980s_fads_and_trends.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Category:2010_disestablishments.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Category:Audio_players.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Category:Consumer_electronics_brands.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Category:Digital_audio_players.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Category:Portable_media_players.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sony_products.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Category:Walkman.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Compact_Cassette.
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- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Flash_memory.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Hard_disk_drive.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Headphones.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Rollins.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink High_fidelity.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Hotline.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink IPod.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink ITunes.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink MP3.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink MPEG-4_Part_14.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Masaru_Ibuka.
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- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Memory_Stick.
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- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink NT_(cassette).
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- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink OLED.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Pacific_Ocean.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Palm_OS.
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- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Sony_Ericsson_W880i.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Sony_Ericsson_W890i.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Sony_Ericsson_W900i.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Sony_Ericsson_W950.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Sony_Ericsson_Xperia_X10.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Sony_Mobile.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Sony_NW-A810.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Sony_Watchman.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Sony_Xperia_S.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Spoken_word.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Surface-mount_technology.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Symbian.
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- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Ultra_high_frequency.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
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- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Video.
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- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Walkman_Circ.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Walkman_DD_Series.
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- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink Windows_Media_Audio.
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- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink File:Sony-MZ-N707-MD-Walkman.jpg.
- Walkman wikiPageWikiLink File:SonyWalkmanFamily.JPG.