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Dell reported to be testing a new MP3 player

by Scott Bicheno on 30 July 2008, 10:48

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Evidence

So what is the evidence for an MP3 player? Well, take a look at this screenshot taken from www.zing.net.  



 

The “about us” blurb goes as follows: “At ZING™, a part of Dell's Consumer Products Group, our vision is to help the world discover and share the freshest entertainment. Whenever, wherever. When you've got ZING on your mobile entertainment device, you're always connected to the latest content, Internet radio, subscription services, and even your friends. ZING products and services will change the way you experience entertainment, forever.”

The only products the Zing site links to are the Sirius Stiletto portable satellite radio and the now discontinued Sandisk Sansa Connect. So there’s clearly room for another piece of hardware to accommodate the software service acquired by Dell a year ago.

What do you think? Is there room for another entrant to the MP3 player market? What would it have to bring to the table to be able to take on the iPod and how could the music service improve on iTunes? Let us know in the HEXUS.community.


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Posted by Gordy - Wed 30 Jul 2008 10:56
Hmm why don't they rename themselves Apple 2 and be done with it.

First they copy a lot of the macbook pro features in the xps range. Then they copy the iMac with the xps one. Yesterday it was the mac mini being copied.

Now its the iPod. Which is even sillier as microsoft have proved.
Posted by Biscuit - Wed 30 Jul 2008 11:16
Dells main sales will always be to big corps i reckon same as HP so i agree kind of…

Always good to have competition and a lot of people dnt like OSX tho
Posted by Parm - Wed 30 Jul 2008 11:23
Personally I welcome the competition in the MP3 player market. I don't own an iPod as I simply don't like using iTunes, and the two pretty much go hand in hand.

Once Amazon's MP3 store comes to the UK, I'll probably buy an MP3 player and the current choice doesn't really appeal. I wouldn't mind a Zune perhaps, but there's no sign of that coming to the UK. I wouldn't mind seeing what Dell can come up with.
Posted by Zhaoman - Wed 30 Jul 2008 11:33
Yes we do need more competition in the mp3 market, the only alternative to the iPod seems to be Creative's range and they're very uninspiring (I own a Creative Zen lol). The new X-Fi Zen looks very interesting though.
Posted by Scott B - Wed 30 Jul 2008 12:07
I've got a Sandisk Sansa and it's nice and usable. The future of these things, as Sandisk tried with its apparently now discontinued Sansa Connect, is in acquiring music online wirelessly whenever you want.

Microsoft's plodding away down that avenue with Zune and this Dell thing, if it happens, looks like wireless will be a big part of it. The main issue, as ever, is with DRM and payment systems.

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