Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
Dell exits the MP3 player business for good: all references to the flash-based DJ Ditty, the company’s sole offering in this department since it dropped its HD-based players in February, were pulled from the Dell website. [via]
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 [...]
DJLife.com is Dell’s site dedicated to their line of portable audio players: think of it as the equivalent to Creative’s Nomadworld. [via]
Review: Dell DJ Ditty PC Mag gives it a 3/5 rating. Gets the job done, and the FM tuner is strong, but the scroll-wheel can be a tad difficult to use. [via]
Dell’s latest DJ offering is an MP3 player with sat radio functionality. We had reported on this coming two months ago. You’ll be able to sync it to XM content when you plug it in the dock—no onboard receiver for you a la Samsung neXus XM and the Sirius S50, and with the RIAA bitchin’ [...]
We’ve talked about it last week, and it was available in Dell’s website for $99 (512MB) for a few days now, but it was only released officially yesterday. It’s got a FM tuner, a 14-hour rechargeable lithim polymer battery, and is Napster To Go compatible (reportedly, it comes with a 30-day subscription to Napster To [...]