Just got a tip that Rio, which was once THE name in MP3 players, has four new models on the way called the Fuse, the Cali, the Chiba, and the Karma. The Fuse will be a 128MB USB key drive player. The Cali and the Chiba players will have 128MB and 256MB of internal memory, respectively, and expansion slots for SD cards. The big news, though, is a hard drive-based player called the Karma, which will come in 20GB and 40GB versions, have USB 2.0 for file-transfers, a dock with a built-in Ethernet port, and support the open source Ogg Vorbis audio format as well as MP3 and WMA. Apparently a page with all these players turned up on the J&R website, and then was promptly pulled down once they’d realized the error.
[Thanks, Jason]
