Windows SideShow at CES 2007: A new Dell MP3 player?

NOT a Dell MP3 player

It's amazing the little tidbits you can pick up when you're in close proximity to Microsoft headquarters. While I was staying in Redmond, Washington briefly during the last week of December, a little birdie began to tell me about a Windows SideShow device that is supposedly in development. If you don't know much about SideShow (I didn't, until a couple of weeks ago), there's an MSDN page that offers some excellent illustrations. Anyway, the device in question supposedly is a pocketable gadget, to be manufactured by Dell (with Windows branding, I assume). It will have built-in memory and can act as an MP3 player; perhaps as a portable video player as well? And I seem to recall something about built-in wireless capability, perhaps. The image that popped into my head as this mystery device was being described was the iRiver Clix (pictured here). Of course, this is all speculation, but if such a device is announced at CES this year, you can bet it'll pop up here.

[timmylv]

isn't that iRiver Clix

Now who is the copycat? I thought American companies will never care to copy anything from Asia... consumers, got anything else to be proud of?

[minhazl]

whats the big deal

My Dopod c720w with Windows Mobile can do all that and more more while being an excellent phone

[lacene]

It is the Clix

that isn't the new Dell mp3 player that Jasmine was talking about. That IS the Clix. She said above that the news made her think of the Clix, and posted a pic of the Clix to illustrate her thoughts.