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The PJB was the first hard-disk-based MP3 player made available on the market. The "100" in the "PJB-100" name was chosen from the capacity of the original 4.86 GB hard drive in the first Personal Jukebox. With this drive, the unit was expected to hold about 100 popular (45 minute) music CDs encoded at 128 kbit/s.
Kaomoji on a Japanese NTT Docomo mobile phone A Kaomoji painting in Japan. Kaomoji was invented in the 1980s as a way of portraying facial expressions using text characters in Japan. It was independent of the emoticon movement started by Scott Fahlman in the United States in the same decade. Kaomojis are most commonly used as emoticons or ...
ZEN is a series of portable media players designed and manufactured by Creative Technology Limited from 2004 to 2011. The players evolved from the NOMAD brand through the NOMAD Jukebox series of music players, with the first separate "ZEN" branded models released in 2004.
The MPMan music player, manufactured by the South Korean company SaeHan Information Systems, debuted in Asia in March 1998, and was the first mass-produced portable solid state digital audio player. The internal flash memory could be expanded, but there was no support for external memory. It was delivered with a docking station.
NW-A800 series (A805) The Sony NW-A800 series was the first video-enabled Network Walkman. [15] Announced on March 1, 2007, [16] this series has a metallic build. A chrome-like strip surrounds the edge of the device, and accenting of the same style surrounds the buttons and makes up the logos on the front.
It can play back MP3, AAC (unprotected only), and WMA (subscription included) files. It was the first Walkman with Zappin, a Sony function which allows the user to browse through tracks by playing a snippet of the chorus of each song. [55] The original model was followed by the W250 series coming in 2 GB (NW-W253) and 4 GB (NW-W254) capacities.
Some MP3 players can encode directly to MP3 or other digital audio formats directly from a line-level audio signal (radio, voice, etc.). [citation needed] Devices such as CD players can be connected to the MP3 player (using the USB port) in order to directly play music from the memory of the player without the use of a computer. [citation needed]
The loosely defined category of S1 MP3 players is comprised by a large amount of then-inexpensive handheld digital audio players. [1] The players were mainly widespread around 2005–2006 [ citation needed ] but the series continued for years afterwards, blurring into that of so-called " MP4 players " employing S1 and competing architectures.