The Future of Portable Audio - Circa 2005 🩶
When 1GB felt infinite and Hi-MD was revolutionary
1GB capacity on disc
MP3, ATRAC3+, PCM
40 hours (1 AA battery)
Line-in & Microphone
USB via SonicStage
Silver metallic finish
• YouTube launched in February 2005
• iPod Video was just announced
• Facebook required a college email
• MySpace was the #1 social network
• Broadband internet was still growing
• Nokia flip phones dominated
• CD burning was still a big deal
• iTunes Store had 500 million songs
people have clicked "I owned one!"