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Daftly-named Dell iPod Rival

September 21st, 2005

We love the look of the new Dell iPod Shuffle rival, but we hate the name - Dell DJ Ditty. What are they thinking of? The iPod is all style and no substance, but by branding their mp3 player like a kid’s ‘my first music box’ Dell have missed a trick.

The DJ Ditty itself looks like a solid offering. 512MB capacity allows the storage of up to 220 mp3 or WMA files, and it has a nice 26×11mm blue-glow screen to allow you to actually see what is playing (one up on the Shuffle there). It’s based on the Creative FX120, so features a 2.5 hour recharge time over USB 2.0.

The equivalently priced Shuffle only holds 120 songs, so the DJ Ditty stacks up well against its rival. The Dell also has a built-in FM tuner, so it wins all round. The only downside is its incompatibility with iTunes which rules it out of a large part of the market.

The Dell DJ Ditty will probably fail to dent the iPod’s market share despite its feature set. If only Dell had come up with a better name.

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