iPod News; ditty, the shuffle slayer

An analyst predicts that Apple will be selling 31M iPods this year and 43M on 2006.

That's the good news, the bad news is that a UK advocacy group is looking into iPod battery problems and how Apple UK is dealing with it. From UK to Australia, The Herald Sun reports that the million iPod users in Australia could be breaking anti-piracy laws by converting songs from their audio CDS to digital format that can be loaded into the iPod.

The Guardian UK thinks that the ROKR isn't for those who already own iPods but instead is targetted to those curious group of people who are not keen in carrying around with them 1,000 songs. The reviewer cites several issues like the joystick, the difficult to find bluetooth function and the strangely missing radio. Other than that, the phone is recommended to those who just wants to have a 100 songs in their pocket without having to resort to having carrying another device.

Dell has decided to go after the shuffle by unleashing forth the Del DJ ditty. They even have a website for it. I damn hope this website is a spoof.