The ever elusive Auvi SA1500

Engadget special correspondent Oliver Mather dug up this nugget about the Auvi SA1500, a new 20GB MP3 player which might prove to be a worthy competitor for the iPod if they could ever get around to releasing it:

After numerous delays we were finally due to see the promising, smaller-than-an-iPod, 20GB Auvi SA1500 go on sale at around November time of this year, however, they're obviously pushing this "good things come to those who wait" thing now. After speaking with the fine people of Auvi USA apparently they're making some changes to the SA1500 to make it compatible with several online music stores and now won't be available until the first quarter of 2005 at the earliest.