As the player is only 15mm thick there was no place for a normal AA battery. Instead a flat rechargeable battery is being used. A separate adapter, which attaches to the player, can be used to hold a normal AA battery.

• 2 MMC Memory Slots
• One 32 MB MMC Memory card
• USB Interface
• Internal Equalizer
• Software: MP3 Explorer

The back of the player is can be replaced by a BackPack, which can contain more memory or even a miniature harddrive! There are some problems with the USB connection but they seem to originate
from the mainboard and Diamond is working to have this fixed!

The Rio 600 is currently for sale for about US$ 150.00.

• 32 MB Flash memory
• Supports both MP3 & WMA files
• USB Interface
• One AA Battery
• Software: Rio Audio Manager
• Removable face-plates

The Lenoxx MP-786 currently retails at US$ 159,- and is available here.

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