10 years ago Korean manufacturer Saehan Information Systems introduced a new musical device, the first MP3 player MPMan F10 in March 1998. This first MP3 player was with 32 MB flash storage and can store eight songs sampled at 128 Kb/s.It measured 91 x 70 x 165.5mm. Its price was $250.The songs were transferred to the device via the PC’s parallel port rather than today’s music players that use the USB and Firewire ports.

Actually the competition for manufacturing MP3 player began when ‘Diamond’ came with its MP3 Player the Rio PMP300 with price $200. The Diamond’s MP3 also transferred songs through the parallel port but it had a smart media slot allowing users to increase storage capacity. After that Diamond involved in a bitter and prolong fight with the U.S. recording industry. But at last, they’ve settlement.

At the same time, Microsoft developed digital rights management (DRM) technology to protect songs. Afterward Apple came with its iPod and it took over the market completely. Some other companies also joined the race as well. But the Sony Walkman manufacturing leader didn’t produce any significant digital music player MP3.