The 1990s were an important transition era, when electronics were getting small enough to be portable but were often still ...

Hardware or software that plays audio files encoded in MP3 and other audio formats ... Although discontinued, Apple's iPod was long the industry leader, but players have came in all sizes ...

The Samsung Galaxy Player is the only real competitor to the iPod touch, and it makes a great alternative for folks who don't want to use their phone as a music player, and prefer Android to Apple.

Our in-house expert reviewers, who have over 150 years of collective experience, have been testing portable music players since the heydays of the Walkman, iPod Classic and pill-shaped MP3 player, and ...

SSDs consume a lot of power, especially relative to the size of the lithium-ion batteries inside MP3 players. If your iPod's ...

If you want to choose your own music on the road but don't want to tote around a load of CDs, look for a system that includes a USB port, hard drive, or iPod/MP3-player integration. With a hard ...

The music store launched in 2003 but iTunes started life in 2001, when the first generation iPod MP3 player - which stored 1,000 tunes - transformed the world of digital music. Getty Images It ...

The iPod mini was introduced at Macworld San Francisco in 2004. In his keynote, Steve Jobs declared war on the Flash-based MP3 players that were enjoying success downstream of Apple’s more expensive, ...

Let’s hope they have more staying power than Nano pets. Ever since Apple introduced flashy, less-expensive mp3 players like the iPod Mini, Shuffle and Nano, the trendy gadgets have been flying ...

Then there were portable CD players. As MP3’s became a popular format ... the scene changed forever when Apple unveiled the first generation iPod. Of course, the iPod didn’t start out being ...

The Apple iPod touch 32GB (5th Generation) - Space Gray (Renewed) makes it easy to listen to music, use apps, video chat with ...

Generic MP3 car adapters work with all players, including iPods; however, there are many car adapters designed for only the iPod (see iPod car adapter). MP3 car adapters plug into the player's ...