Dell introduced the DJ Ditty yesterday, a new iPod Shuffle fighter. As opposed to Apple's offering, this one has a screen, which most experts consider to be a feature (except Steve Jobs). It's equally fascinating that Dell's same 1/2 GB of storage holds almost twice as many songs as Apple's same capacity player. How did they encode the songs- 16 kbps/mono setting, quality equal to a dial tone?
The DJ Ditty weighs 1.29 ounces and its 512 megabytes of storage can hold as many as 220 songs, Dell of Round Rock, Texas, said in a statement. The device, which has a 1-inch screen for managing playlists, starts at $99.
By contrast, the 512-megabyte version of Apple's shuffle, which also costs $99, stores 120 songs; a 1-gigabyte version sells for $129 and holds 240 songs, according to the company's Web site.
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