Today ’s DAP headlines :
It ’s all about Rio ’s tragic demise this sentence . We ’ve got juicy item on Rio ’s could - have - been serial publication of tiptop DAPs , such as the Chroma , Cubic and Avalon .
Our first office - mortem : The ill - fatedRio Audio Chromadidn’t make it very far . We did , however , obtain some word-painting of the Karma ’s supposed heir . Indeed , it reckon like an enlarged Carbon . And yes : all of this gadgetry would have supported gapless playback , Ogg Vorbis , Flac and whatnot .
Then there ’s the Rio “ Carbon C ” – dubbed “ Cubic ” during its beta phase angle . Tears welled in many optic when looking at thesupposed specificationsfor this gadget . Take the suggested 30 - 35 time of day battery life-time , for example — that ’s impressive . Well , it would have been telling .
The “ Carbon C ” was supposed to come in 3 version : the regular 30 GB edition — with its nice big screen plus a production line - in jack — and two smaller ones ( 6 GB and 8 GB ) , both using the original Carbon ’s shell . This compact “ Carbon C ” was nicknamed“Avalon”during its beta stages and nearly made it to production . Then , Rio struck that infamous mess with SigmaTel … and the Avalon had to give out with it .
We ’ve also got sometidbitson the late “ Rio Audio Vixen ” and “ Quartz ” , as well as information about a sports variant of the Carbon and something we ’d wish to call the “ K3 ” .
Finally , there ’s Scripture on a2 GB flash memory Carbon . This unit was schedule to see its sacking next Christmas , as were many of the above - mentioned product .
That ’s all for today , see you tomorrow !
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