After a looooooooong wait, the formerly Korea-only MobiBlu DAH-100-5 is finally on sale in the United States, albeit exclusively from CompUSA or MobiBlu's online store. Like its fellow iPod Mini rival, the Rio Carbon, the DAH-100-5 is a lot more feature-laden than the comparable Apple. It's got an extra gig's worth of storage, as well as 10 manually adjustable equalizer settings, all for a suggested retail price $20 less than the Mini. There are also built-in stereo speakers, which're meant primarily for playing back voice recordings.

What you lose is all them pretty colors and, more importantly, battery life—MobiBlu claims 10 hours, which means you can probably expect somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 to 8. That puts it squarely in second-gen iPod territory, which ain't a good place to be. Of course, if those mini-turbines come to fruition, all this battery handwringing will be moot.

MobiBlu DHH-100-5 Digital Audio Player Catalog Page [CompUSA]

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