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[shantyman]

It's got a screen and an FM tuner, hurrah!

Key Features
The new Dell DJ DittyTM is Slim and Trim at 1.29 ounces1 - light enough for heavy workouts or runs, yet plays about 220 songs2 for up to 14 hours3.

512MB4 of storage for up to 220 songs
Integrated FM tuner
Easy to read 26x11mm LCD screen
Slim design measuring 3.6 x 1.1 x .5 inches and weighing only 1.29 ounces
Rechargeable Lithium Polymer battery with up to 14 hours3 of battery life
Includes earbuds, lanyard, and black & blue USB Cap only
Easy and affordable downloads via Musicmatch Jukebox by Y!Music
Compatible with Napster to Go
Compatible with Audible

Link to the details...

 

[teiresias]

Cost? With NPR starting to do podcasts (though not of full shows yet) my need for an FM tuner is slowly diminishing.

 

[DarienA]

Whoa did you say Diddy?

 

[LakeEarth]

512MB4 of storage for up to 220 songs2

Umm.. wha? What's an MB4? What's a songs2?

If it means 512mb for 220 songs, they are fucking insane. Maybe if all the songs were under two minutes long and were at the shittiest quality.

 

[DarienA]

Umm.. wha? What's an MB4? What's a songs2?

If it means 512mb for 220 songs, they are fucking insane. Maybe if all the songs were under two minutes long and were at the shittiest quality.

2 Assumes audio format is 64kbps WMA encoding with average song length of 4 min.

64?!??!?!?! uh.....

 

[impirius]

For all those times you thought, "I wish my MP3 player looked just like a highlighter"

 

[Lo-Volt]

Nasty! Apple for the win! :lol

 

[Deku Tree]

I hate when they assume low quality bit rates in their calculation of the number of songs.

 

[borghe]

at least apple assumes 128Kb AAC, which is fine sounding audio. most people probably don't notice any loss on 128Kbps AAC. Now if apple would just include AAC-HE, 128Kbps should be enough for almost everyone.

 

[shantyman]

Umm.. wha? What's an MB4? What's a songs2?

If it means 512mb for 220 songs, they are fucking insane. Maybe if all the songs were under two minutes long and were at the shittiest quality.

The "2" is a footnote reference, nothing more. I copied and pasted from dell's site.

 

[sonycowboy]

"DJ Ditty"?

Well, they got the last 4 letters right.

Seriously, do NONE of these companies understand why the iPod is successful. These damn industrial cheap designs are pathetic. The thing looks like a highlighter.

 

[shantyman]

Cost? With NPR starting to do podcasts (though not of full shows yet) my need for an FM tuner is slowly diminishing.

$99

 

[cubicle47b]

It's $50 after the mail in rebate to Yahoo but what a shitty design. The DJ20 (which I bought last year for $130) is nice, though.

 

[Grifter]

(shaking head)

 

[AlphaSnake]

It looks like a lighter. It's fucking ugly with the colors! But it's fucking ugly regardless.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

That looks cheap and nasty. The Dell logo doesn't do it any favours either

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Hmm... FM Receiver built in and a screen for playlists, etc. Diddy has one upped the Shuffle. Too bad the Shuffle craps all over it in every other aspect. I don't think Jobs is losing any sleep tonight over this one.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Are they just now announcing this? It's been on their site for a few days.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Are they just now announcing this? It's been on their site for a few days.

Yeah, I saw it on Engadget a few days back. Maybe Dell is even a little embarrassed by it. It doesn't help that Apple released the Nano a few weeks back, making every other flash player look stupid.

 

[shantyman]

It was officially announced Tuesday I believe.

 

[Kuroyume]

Is anyone going to give a fuck about FM anymore by the end of the year? Sirius tuners only plz.

 

[PotatoeMasher]

No AM, no buy!







what's sad is... i'm serious

 

[shantyman]

Im confused by the comments in this thread. If it were an Apple product, everyone would be bashing it for not having a tuner, now everyone says it does not matter. Where were you in January when the shuffle came out?

 

[Phoenix]

No AM, no buy!
what's sad is... i'm serious

AM radio? You won't buy a product because it doesn't receive AM radio? Are you waiting for some super secret NSA broadcast or something?

 

[shantyman]

No AM, no buy!

what's sad is... i'm serious

If I had a choice I would pick AM.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Im confused by the comments in this thread. If it were an Apple product, everyone would be bashing it for not having a tuner, now everyone says it does not matter. Where were you in January when the shuffle came out?

Actually, if you read my post, I gave the Diddy points for having the tuner and a screen, but said that the shuffle seem to beat it in every other way. For the record, I'm not that impressed with the Shuffle until it at least gets a screen.

And for the record, I'd want AM as well. If I want to listen to music, I'd already have plenty of that on the player. I listen to AM for talk radio, sports, etc.

 

[Ruzbeh]

DJ Ditty. More like DJ Shitty.

am i rite??

 

[cvxfreak]

Why doesn't Dell offer these with their laptops and desktops? Would be a decent way to break into the market.

...unless they do already.

 

[Lo-Volt]

DJ Ditty. More like DJ Shitty.

am i rite??

Itty DJ-Ditty Titty Committee.

 

[tedtropy]

Your music isn't monochrome. Why should your LCD be? Oh...wait...

And did they have to make the name rhyme with 'shitty'?

 

[sonycowboy]

AM radio? You won't buy a product because it doesn't receive AM radio? Are you waiting for some super secret NSA broadcast or something?

Sports talk, all the way.

 

[demon]

Sports talk

...


will never understand why.

 

[Nick]

Damn Dell... how generic can you get? They can expect to sell about seven of these bad boys.

 

[Joe]

i too am dissapointed that 99.9% of mp3 players dont have AM (sports talk). im not even sure if one exists?

oh and this is probably gonna get diddy pissed off like spiketv did to spike lee. they just should have called it diddy and had diddy do all the advertising. have it pre-loaded with diddy songs or something. that probably would have been pretty cool advertising.

Damn Dell... how generic can you get? They can expect to sell about seven of these bad boys.

yes and we all know how poorly the shuffle sold.

 

[borghe]

someone posted a reason. basically the antenna needed for any AM reception is too big for a mini-player. you can't get an am antenna in a thumb drive sized player.

 

[shantyman]

A ditty is another name for a song...

 

[Shinobi]

Im confused by the comments in this thread. If it were an Apple product, everyone would be bashing it for not having a tuner, now everyone says it does not matter. Where were you in January when the shuffle came out?

Pissing all over it from a great height...

And I too would love for AM to be included in these tuners...why it's always left out is beyond me.

someone posted a reason. basically the antenna needed for any AM reception is too big for a mini-player. you can't get an am antenna in a thumb drive sized player.

*sniff*

 

[Polari]

:lol Dell are as clueless as always when it comes to design I see.

 

[aoi tsuki]

:lol Dell are as clueless as always when it comes to design I see.

The Dell Jukebox could've told you that. One of the ugliest MP3 players recently that comes to mind.

 

[Hyoushi]

Apple fanboy site total, but still a funny read except for that horrible last point of course.

 

[shantyman]

Apple fanboy site total, but still a funny read except for that horrible last point of course.

Still, it is true.

Gruber is a great writer but a little too biased I admit.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Why would dell actually tell anyone that they created a hole to pour money down? god there are about 30million different types of this exact player around already. EVERYWHERE.