He put a Walkman on and listened to some heavy metal tunes, like a basketball player getting pumped for a big game.
Just one generation ago the closest thing to an iPod was a Sony Walkman hooked up to an IBM mainframe computer.
The Russell Street Cinema is so magically 1980s that crossing the threshold will instantly transform your iPhone into a Sony Walkman.
In a separate look at YouTube, Pew noted that the most viewed video at the site last week had nothing to do with Jackson, Billy Mays or a Sony Walkman.
The topic of greatest attention in social media last week, by contrast, was a BBC Magazine story about a 13-year-old English kid who gave up his iPod for a week to try an original model of a Sony Walkman, according to Pew.
When MP3 rolled around and Sony's walkman customers were clamoring for a solid-state MP3 player, Sony let its music business-unit run its show: instead of making a high-capacity MP3 walkman, Sony shipped its Music Clips, low-capacity devices that played brain-damaged DRM formats like Real and OpenAG.
Sony Ericsson have given the Walkman a new lease of life, inside the new W800 phone handset.
The Walkman introduced a thick layer of static to the music-listening experience.
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The Walkman provided a clear model for the success of the iPod.
More than thirty years after triggering a music and lifestyle revolution, Sony has officially retired the Walkman in Japan (there is still a lone model for sale in the U.S.).
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Jobs surely hasn't forgotten that before the introduction of the iPhone, Sony seemed poised (briefly) to derail Apple's iPod when it slapped the Walkman brand on a line of music-friendly Sony Ericsson handsets that have sold well in Japan.
But if you were in charge of a company whose greatest accomplishments (Walkman, PlayStation, etc.) occurred many years ago, what would you do?
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So we hit up that Sony Ericsson press event this morning and caught a gander at their new W600 Walkman cameraphone (among other things).
The Walkman W Series is a wire free digital music player designed to conveniently and comfortably accompany its user to the gym, trail and treadmill.
During the pre-Walkman era, we had a simple means of finding out what our friends were listening to.
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The brand has lost much of its glamour as the maker of the Walkman portable music player, a pioneering product, as well as the PlayStation video-game console, once a must-have for holiday shopping.
It has now become the leader in portable music, a business once dominated by Sony with the Walkman.
The iPod defines a product category, as Sony's Walkman once did when music was delivered on cassette instead of over the internet.
When Apple surpassed Sony in mobile music (iPod made the Walkman obsolete), it had a fraction of the patents of Sony.
First up, the music-oriented Walkman series could be growing by a solid six devices in the coming months, topped off by a successor to the UIQ-based W950 codenamed "Maria, " a (possibly UIQ-based) clamshell dubbed W910, and the oft-discussed Ai.
Billed as the "first truly global Walkman phone, " the phone features a GPS navigation system, stereo speakers, and fast downloading capabilities.
Once teams of hard-working Japanese salesmen had prised open American and European markets in the 1970s, Western consumers were quickly won over by Japanese quality, design and price, whether in fuel-efficient cars or snazzy electronic gizmos, such as the Sony Walkman (for readers under 30: a portable machine that played music from tapes) or the Nintendo DS (for readers over 30: a gadget for playing video games).
Most advanced Walkman phone yet -- works globally as a mobile phone and media player.
Sony has updated its E-series flash Walkman, but if you've already picked up a first-gen unit and are happy with it, you probably don't need to rush out and pick up a new one.
The "WALKMAN" application provides access to all your downloaded music, a library of 18 million songs to explore from Music Unlimited and Facebook social integration.
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But a funny thing happened since the technological era of the Commodore 64 and the Walkman.
Sony invented the Walkman and the portable CD player, but was never more than a third-fiddle player in the digital audio world.
Sony Ericsson, a joint venture between Sony and Swedish phone maker Ericsson, has ably leveraged Sony Walkman and Cybershot technology in its phones.
The "WALKMAN", Album, and Movies apps enable discovery of online and offline content through a single access point.
As a result, Sony handed its leadership of the portable-music market, which it established with the Sony Walkman, to Apple.
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