The Rio Cubic Never Made it out of the Gate

By: Grahm Skee on January 17, 2006 2:14 PM

Rio was one of the first manufactures of hard drive based MP3 players. There are still many fans today despite the company’s liquidation several months ago. The Rio Cubic also known as the Rio Carbon C, was to be a 30GB player with 30 hours of battery time with support for MP3, WMA, FLAC, and OGG.

We may still see some version of this at some point. Sigmatel, bought the intellectual property when Rio was dissolved.

A former Rio engineer sent Engadget the remains of this remains of this project including lots of pictures and even the unfinished manual. Check it out.

[Engadget more on this at DAPReview]

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Oregon on February 16, 2007 5:32 PM

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