24 August 2006 15:33 GMT / By Amber Maitland
Dell’s last portable MP3 player has quietly been retired, as the company bows out of the portable player market.The Dell DJ Ditty webpage is now just an error; the device had been absent from the latest Dell catalogue as well.
Dell won’t offer a follow-up product, preferring to concentrate on core areas like PCs and printers, but it will still be a third-party reseller for other MP3 players like Creative Zen.
The company’s line of MP3 players was launched in 2003, but never really took a significant part of the market.
It announced in February that it was discontinuing its hard-drive-based MP3 players, and now its flash-based device has also been binned.
Dell’s departure leaves four major Windows-based player manufacturers: SanDisk, Creative, Samsung, and Sony.
Audio, MP3 players, Dell
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