Following hot on the heels of the Rio Carbon mp3 player, Alba and Digitalway have also launched MP3 players today. Alba’s, the Alba MP364NDI, costs £30 and has 64MB of memory and is aimed at the beginner market.
Digitalway’s, called the mpio hd200, however is a 5Gb player priced at £199 and will offer 80 hours of music, in-built WOW sound support and a 5 band equalizer. It also offers support for MP3, WMA, ASF and OGG file formats and also has direct encoding straight from a stereo. With the integrated FM stereo and recording function, USB 2 downloading and 14 hours of battery life the player aims to offer plenty.
How both players fair in the market will be hard to tell against tough competition from more established brands like Apple, Rio and Creative.
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