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A batteryless radio is a type of radio receiver that does not require the use of a battery to provide it with electrical power. Originally this referred to units which could be used directly by AC mains supply (mains radio); it can also refer to units which do not require a power source at all, except for the power that they receive from an ...
Panasonic Stereo Cassette Player RQ-JA63. The first portable audio player available to the general public, the Sony Walkman, was introduced in 1979 and sold very well.It was much smaller than an 8-track player or the earlier cassette recorders, and was listened to with stereophonic headphones, unlike previous equipment which used small loudspeakers.
Shower CD & Radio with a clock. A shower radio is a battery-powered radio that is waterproofed to allow it to be used in a bathroom or other wet environment. More generally, a shower radio is a shower speaker with an integrated radio functionality. Some versions also include a CD player and/or a clock. Shower radios generally lack headphone ...
Most boomboxes were battery-operated, leading to extremely heavy, bulky boxes. [66] Most boomboxes from the 2010s typically include a CD player compatible with CD-R and CD-RW, which allows the user to carry their own music compilations on a higher fidelity medium. Many also permit iPod and similar devices to be plugged into them through one or ...
[57] [58] Samsung SPH-M100 (UpRoar) launched in 2000 was the first mobile phone to have MP3 music capabilities [59] in the US market. The innovation spread rapidly across the globe and by 2005, more than half of all music sold in South Korea was sold directly to mobile phones and all major handset makers in the world had released MP3 playing ...
A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.
An early 2000s transistor radio (Sony Walkman SRF-S84 transistor radio, released 2001, shown without earphones) Rock 'n roll music became popular at the same time as transistor radios. Parents found that purchasing a small transistor radio was a way for children to listen to their music without using the family tube radio.
The Utility Radio or Wartime Civilian Receiver was a valve domestic radio receiver, manufactured in Great Britain during World War II starting in July 1944. It was designed by G.D. Reynolds of Murphy Radio. Both AC and battery-operated versions were made. [1] [2] [3]