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The recently taken about pioneer of portable MP3-players Rio a zipper new applianceletjes introduces, below which for the first time a with a hard disk. These the competition must enter into with Apples furious popular iPod.

In total appeared there by Rio seven new players, each characterized through a very futuristic design. As source the Cali as its trendy little brother Chiba lie in the extended of the former Rio-players. They offer contain relative little raise space (128 or 256 MB) only no moving parts what she interesting makes for active types. The Cali-series adds at the now typical around nicely what rubber, so that the apparatus can against a shock. Also new is the Fuse, a tiny player for sport men on which 30 songs want to can.

The roles of renewer is for for the Nitrus and the Karma. Or Rio will score with the Nitrus, is however sore the question: the player contain indeed a hard disk, but that is only 1.5 GB large. With a price ticket of 299 dollars, the apparatus goes nonetheless the competition at with much better equipped players, as the iPod 10 GB and the Creative Juxebox.

The Karma 20 and 40 GB its then wl the trouble landlord. Ankles do not contain they hard disks of a reliable size and are they edge praised, they come also finished with separate features. As is the support of open source Ogg Vorbis-music truce a positive affair. Furthermore is the notably that the Karmas thanks to an Ethernet-connection autonomously on a network can hang. He who in that has no sense, can transfer music truce also via USB 2.0.

Since the bankruptcy of SONICblue is the Rio-division property of a Japanese holding of high-end audiomerken Marantz and Denon. Because of this are the new players not yet available outside the U.S. There however is sought to distributors in Europe, affirms a woordvoerdster of the business.