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Portable Media Players Gallery
Music and videos on the go
by Douglas Dixon
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These galleries provide notes on some interesting technology and trends in
digital home media.
They include some sample products illustrating these trends.
Information and pricing are summarized
from public sources as of when they were added,
and may be incorrect or out of date. Corrections and updates are welcome. |
Portable Players - Markets and Formats
Apple iPod Pricing
Media Players: Features and Trends
Flash Players
Stick Music Players
Flash Music Players
Flash Video Players
Flash Wireless Players
Hard Disk Players
Hard Disk Video Players
Portable Media Players -- and Recorders
- ARCHOS Gen 5
Multi-Function Devices
Satellite Radio Players
Portable Game Machines
See PC / TV Media: Capture and Transfer
PC TV and Video Capture / Portable TV Recording: PC to TV
See also:
Mobile
Communications Gallery -- Mobile media, Phones and PDAs
Portable
Audio Accessories Gallery -- Headsets, speakers, Bluetooth
Portable Power
Accessories Gallery -- Batteries, chargers, adapters
Portable Storage
Gallery -- Cards and drives, Flash and hard disk
Find related Players
articles in the Manifest Tech Blog
See also a summary of Digital Holiday Trends 2007: Portable
Media Players
-- Video playback, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity
Two worlds: iPod and Windows Media
Apple iPods
'08: touch, classic, nano, shuffle / iPods '07: shuffle, nano,
classic, touch -- iPhone
Apple iPods 06:
video, nano, shuffle
Apple Positioning
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Coolness and purity of design
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Single-source integrated experience
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Organize
collection with Apple iTunes software
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Buy new music from the Apple
iTunes Music Store
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Protected with the Apple
FairPlay DRM
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Download songs to Apple iPod for playback
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www.apple.com/itunes
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Over
3.5 million songs at 99 cents,
65,000 free podcasts
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TV shows for $1.99,
some 200 movies for $9.99 to $14.99
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Creative
Product Line -- 9/07
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Portable Player -- Market Shares
Market share (NPD)
| Company
| 7/08
| Q1 08
| Q1 07
| (Q2 06)
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| Apple (iPods) |
73.4% |
71% |
70% |
75% |
| SanDisk (Sansa) |
8.6% |
11% |
10% |
10% |
| Microsoft (Zune) |
2.6% |
4% |
3% |
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| Other |
15.4% |
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| Creative |
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2% |
4% |
5% |
9/08 - Apple reports over 160 million iPods sold, the world's most
popular family of digital music players
iTunes Store - #1 music distributor in any format in
U.S
Catalog of 8.5 million songs, over
30,000 TV episodes, over 2,500 films including 600 in HD
App Store: more than 100 million applications downloaded
since launch on July 11, 2008
More than 3,000 available, over 90%
under $10, more than 600 free
5/08 - Microsoft reported it has sold 2 million Zune players
since its launch in November 2006.
Apple reported it has sold 10.6 million iPods in
the first quarter of 2008, and iPhone sales were 1.7 million.
11/14/07 - Creative announced that it has
shipped a total of 25 million MP3 players.
Creative second in
global unit shipments, 3/07 IDC report on worldwide and U.S.
flash and HDD portable media players
Q2 06 - Others - Samsung 2.5
percent, Sony
2 percent
Click wheel, color, photos, video, bigger screen,
brighter, lighter
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iPod
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HD
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5GB
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10G
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15G
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20G
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30G
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40G
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60G
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80G
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120G
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160G
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10/01
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iPod 1
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$399
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mono, 6.5 oz.
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3/02
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iPod 1
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$399
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$499
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7/02
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iPod 2
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$299
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$299
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-
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$499
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4/03
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iPod 3
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-
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$299
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$399
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-
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$499
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10/03
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iPod 3
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-
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$299
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-
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$399
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-
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$499
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1/04
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iPod 3
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-
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-
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$299
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$399
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-
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$499
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7/04
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iPod 4
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-
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-
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-
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$299
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-
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$399
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click wheel
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10/04
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Photo
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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$499
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$599
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color
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2/05
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Photo 2
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-
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-
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-
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-
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$349
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-
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$449
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2”, ~6 oz, 220x176
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6/05
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iPod color
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-
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-
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-
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$299
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-
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-
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$399
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5.6 oz.
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6/05
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iPod video
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-
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-
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-
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-
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$299
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-
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$399
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2.5", 320x240, 4.8/5.5 oz.
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9/06
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iPod video
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-
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-
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-
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-
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$249
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-
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-
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$349
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60% brighter
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9/07
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iPod classic
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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$249
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$349
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2.5", 320x240, 4.9/5.7 oz.
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9/08
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iPod classic
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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-
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$249
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2.5", 320x240,
4.9 oz.
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- iPod 1
10/01 -
iPod 2
7/02
- iPod 3 4/03 - iPod 4 7/04 - iPod
Photo 10/04 - iPod video 6/05 - iPod classic 9/07
- iPod shuffle 2/05
- - iPod
shuffle 2 9/06
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- iPod Mini - iPod nano 1 9/05 - iPod nano 3 9/07 - iPod nano 4 9/08
Apple iPod Pricing -- Flash memory (9/08)
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