10 years from first MP3 player

MPMan F10 - the name of first MP3 player, and was manufactured by Korea’s Saehan Information Systems.




The device was launched in March of 1998 at CeBIT, and went on sale in the Summer through Eiger Labs for $250. The player featured 32MB of flash memory (which could be upgraded to 64MB via mail-in scheme), connected to PCs via parallel port, and had a miniscule LCD for playback info.