Today, every smartphone is a portable media player; however, prior to the smartphone explosion in the 2007-2012 time frame, a variety of handheld players were available to store and play music.

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When portable media players came onto the scene, they were called ‘MP3 players’, a name that stuck around. But is MP3 really obsolete and best forgotten in the dustbin of history at this point?

FiiO has come up with another intriguing product, and the JM21 is now making a play at the digital audio player entry level market ...

There was a brief time in the early 2000s when we carried cellphones, wallets, keys, and a bespoke digital media player loaded with a small selection of our music libraries. Devices like iPods ...

They don't typically have good DAC or headphone output stages. Our in-house expert reviewers, who have over 150 years of collective experience, have been testing portable music players since the ...