Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
Dell drops hard-drive MP3 line: the company will still sell the flash-based Ditty though. [via]
“We saw an opportunity to streamline and consolidate our portfolio,” Dell spokesman Liem Nguyen said. “We made a decision to transition from the hard-drive products to flash players at the beginning of this year.” Dell will continue selling music players from [...]
iTMS: Billion Songs Countdown: a black 4GB Nano and a $100 iTunes Music Card await those who download every 100,000th song, and as for the one who downloads the billionth song, well… he’s in for a treat, to say the least. The contest is open to all 21 countries where the iTunes Music Store operates, [...]
A single charge is supposed to keep the DAH-1900 running for 150 hours. We’ll find out what truth stands behind this number as the first reviews start showing up. You’re supposed to charge the lithium-ion battery via USB.
You’ll be able to load your tunes and M3U playlists quickly via the USB 2.0 link and access [...]
RealNetworks’ CEO gets $2.9M bonus for the settlement with Microsoft: remember that the deal got Real a nice $460M in hand and collaboration with MS on several departments.
Microsoft considering coming up with their own PSP competitor: PSP, PSP, PSP. As suggested by Xbox division’s boss Peter Moore, the thinking is to add gaming capabilities to the device; so there’s no way on earth this is going to be an iPod competitor (as I’ve already read in tons of sites).