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Dell Launches Flash Music Player
desert island writes "Dell launched a new flash-memory digital music player, named DJ Ditty, to compete with the iPod Shuffle. Both devices are $99 and come equipped with 512 megabytes of memory. The biggest difference between the devices is the Ditty's 1-inch LCD display screen, which helps users navigate their music lists. In addition, the Ditty can receive FM radio and sport a rechargeable lithium polymer battery that can provide up to 14 hours of continuous play."
all the encoding I have done of the last two years has been to ogg.
why not make all this plays ogg compatable, the cost can not be much comapred to implimenting wma or even mp3 ?
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If you click on the Home & Home Office section (which is described as the place to look for 'consumer electronics'), select MP3 players and it will be featured there.
Besides, who knows what was featured on the page when the product was announed a week ago (Sept. 14).
Because if you see someone with one, you can point and laugh at them, and say `Dude, you got a DELL!' This is not possible with any of the other players on the market.
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$deity, please save us from the Apple Fanboys.
Another +5 pro-apple rant.
As someone else has pointed out, Apple's major revenue generator is the iPod, for Dell its not. Thats why the iPod is all over the apple website.
Face the facts, ugly tho' it is, this Dell-branded creative player kicks the shuffle everywhere it matters. Pricepoint, Radio, Screen.
The only people who buy shuffles are clueless technophobes who allready own an iPod (and say iPod when they mean mp3 player)
It doesnt matter, the iRiver is 90 times the player the ipod shuffle can ever be. Every person that has a shuffle here at work oggles my iriver. it's sexier looking, has a color display, and records my npr podcasts for me on saturday.
The ipod shuffle asells well because apple markets it heavily and the average consumer is a sheep with blinders on.
those that actually make informed decisions do not get suckered in to the "trendy" item of the week.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Yeah, and Sony's Jog Dial is a bad idea because it doesn't rotate the image.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck