Microsoft Zune to gain quickly, just not at Apple’s expense; Dell kills its Ditty player; Apple settles with Creative; Samsung phone guns for iPod; SanDisk player doubles nano.

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Beating Apple to the punch by a month, SanDisk - which battles for the #2 MP3 player spot with Creative Labs - announced this morning it is boosting the maximum on-board flash capacity of its Sansa e200 series from 6 GB to 8 GB, and capping the new e280's price at $249.

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While everyone has been talking up Microsoft's upcoming Zune portable media player and whatever Apple has up its sleeve on the 6G iPod, Sandisk has slipped in a new MP3 player under radar.

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