That’s right, the DJ Ditty is gone forever. I’m really, really sad inside. Aren’t you?
When DJ Ditty was first announced last September, Dell had hoped that the player’s monochrome display and support of Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio format would give it a leg up on the iPod Shuffle.
Dell claimed that with the Windows media format, the player could hold nearly twice as many songs as a comparable iPod Shuffle.
Game over, fellas.
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0 x 2 = 0
simple math.
As i recall, it could hold more songs, IF you encoded them at (something like) 64KBPS compared to the iTunes standard of 128KBPS. Not a very compelling reason to buy an uglier product.
Don't worry, i'm sure we'll be hearing about many more iPod-killers in the years to come.