Klegg Mini, "world's smallest" color-screen digital audio player

It's been a while since we've seen a new challenger for that coveted "world's smallest digital audio player" prize (currently something of a tossup between the MobiBlu DAH-1500 and the BenQ Joybee 102), so we're amped to see that a company called Klegg Electronics has joined the battle with the Klegg Mini, which the company claims is the smallest player to include a color display. The player measures just 1.8 x 1.6 x 0.5 inches, and includes a a 1-inch, 128x128, 4,096-color display. Memory is a little on the skimpy side, maxing out at just 512MB, and the specs don't list any DRM support. Still, it looks like this is the smallest color-display player, for now. Give it a few weeks, and someone will come up with something smaller, or add video to a player this size.

Update: This just in from the DAP Bureau of Weights and Measures: According to Anything But iPod, the Klegg Mini is not the smallest color-screen player. ABi did the math and declared that the MPIO ONE clocks in at 21.1 cubic centimeters, a full 7.3 ccs smaller than the Klegg's massive 28.4 cubic centimeters. We doubt this revelation will stop Klegg from boasting about the Mini's size, which is probably fine, since no one's really going to buy it anyhow.

[Via I4U News]

[Kenny @ Dec 19th 2005 1:37AM]

Hey!! Isn't that the Nachus CMP-128 MP3 player?

[Lectoid @ Dec 19th 2005 1:37AM]

�world�s smallest�

It's not the size that matters.

[epp_b @ Dec 19th 2005 1:37AM]

No DRM support? Good! SOMEbody's finally standing up for consumer rights and fair use.

As far as I can see, the only thing needed to improve would be the inclusion of a (high capacity supporting) SD card slot. Nonetheless, $80 for 512MB is pretty good...it's certainly better than being ripped off $20 more by Crapple for a 512MB iPod shuffle - which doesn't even have a display (oh, wait, that's a "feature").

[nonesuch @ Dec 19th 2005 1:37AM]

epp_b, maybe you don't get it. The 128mb version is $80. No word on how much the 512 one costs. The "Crapple" (sic) player is $100 for the full 512 megs. Not a ripoff at all, IMHO.

[epp_b @ Dec 19th 2005 1:37AM]

Ah, sorry, I was mistaken. ...I still stand by my point, however, of them not supporting DRM.