It was posted on another forum by a pretty knowledgeable person of HDD-players but not affiliated with any companies. His name is Robert and he's the European staff member of dapReview.com, otherwise known as one of the only comprehensive Digital Audio Player Review sites. He and his American counterpart keep up with this type of stuff, and I assume he received that information from one of the developers or someone close to this project. Unless you are a total Rio-enthusiast, check it out and look around. There are more competitors to the iPod than you may think. One that is going to be released probably sometime in August is the iRiver (famous for their CD-MP3 players) iHP-100, which has only a drawback of capacity size (10 GB only for now, there is speculation they'll be releasing the iHP-200, which boasts 20 GB). But the features are extraordinary: 16 hour battery life, pretty much the size and weight of the iPod, included remote with an LCD screen on it, FM tuner, built-in recording capabilities, optical line-in/out, 8-line screen display, USB 2.0 transfer, etc. You can find out more about its specifications here. There are also other competitors joining in the HDD-player roundup including Philips, Multichannel Labs, Samsung, Now Evolution, and so on. Seems like soon enough there'll be an HDD-player to suit almost everyone (because of each player's diversity in features, cost, size, etc.)