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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You may be asking yourself: why would someone want an MP3 player today when you can just play music from the smartphone in your pocket? Well, ...

So my office has pretty strict physical security requirements that prevent and personal portable electronic devices that have essentially any modern wireless capabilities from bringing brought in.

Smartphones may be the portable do-everything device that fits in your pocket. But sometimes you want to leave all the distractions of a smartphone behind and use a device that does just a few things ...

A decade ago I was moderately surprised to find that companies like Sony were showing off portable music players at CES, because I figured most people had moved on to using smartphones to listen to ...

Tangara, a new portable music player that sports serious iPod Classic vibes, totally eclipsed its initial crowd-funding goal as of Monday. So the open-source iPod alternative could become a reality.

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