Player Blog Category Archives: Rio
January 05, 2005
Rio Carbon Pearl and Rio ce2100 Announced
Rio announced one-and-a-half new models today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The half model is the Rio Carbon Pearl which adds a second color choice to the chromey Rio Carbon.
Also announced was an entirely new product, the Rio ce2100. No photos are available yet, but the ce2100 is said to resemble the Rio Carbon, but with a 2.5GB capacity (instead of the Carbon's 5GB). Battery life is given at 20hrs and will retail at $199. Also, the Rio press release doesn't explicitly state it, but we presume that the ce2100 uses a standard mini harddrive and is not flash based.
Both the Rio Carbon Pearl and Rio ce2100 are supposed to be available by the end of Q1 2005.
eh. big deal. Rio has lost their panache in the MP3 player arena. They have been talking about a remote for the Karma for well over a year with nothing on the horizon. It also looks like there will be no major upgrades or functionality to the Karma, such as alarm clock, delete on the fly function, and better playlist management to name a few.
Stick a fork in them, they're done.
don't eat yellow snow
Posted by: Jake at January 21, 2006 04:21 PM