My Gigabeat: Gigabeat U - A new player from Toshiba

Monday, March 19, 2007

Gigabeat U - A new player from Toshiba

So it has been pretty quiet from Toshiba since the launch of the Zune player... Yeah I have to admit that I did think that Toshiba would give up on their own line of Gigabeat's now that they were building the Zune for Microsoft.

Well turns out that they launched a new Gigabeat. The Gigabeat U player has some exciting features:

High-Quality Sound
A lot of tech talk here, but it seems like Toshiba is using some new technology called DCTSC ( Direct Charge transfer Switched Capacitor). Should produce a clearer sound.
Pairing
Listing to the music that your buddy is playing by tuning into his frequency. This is kinda cool, and could be more useful then the Zune sharing feature (I'm thinking this will be part of a firmware upgrade to the Zune). More "social" I think.
Direct recording
Not sure if this is correct translation, but it seems to me that you can connect to your stereo and record to your Gigabeat through the AV cable. This would be a first I believe?
A-B repeat
This sounds like support for audio books. It will let you playback at a certain point in a file.
EQ
Custom EQ
Specs
- 20hrs playback
- WMA (Windows Media (R) Audio) MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer3) WAV (PCM)
- 1/2GB storage
- JPEG
- 1.1 Type color organic EL display (* 8) (96×96 dot, 65,536 colors) Screen
- Width 36.2mm× height 76.5mm× depth 10.9mm

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posted by Tomas @ 6:47 PM

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7 Comments:

Anonymous said...: ...another half-assed Gigabeat product that Toshiba's tech support will be clueless to help you with

...another Gigabeat that will lack accesories

...another Gigabeat that will perform way under it's specs

Hello to Zune Micro (beta version)!!!; Mon Mar 19, 10:19:00 PM 2007
yihyan said...: A built in FM receiver and transmitter is a genius move :)

you can broadcast your tunes using it without buying any add-ons hehe; Tue Mar 20, 01:59:00 AM 2007
doc martin said...: i/2GB
Wow! A whole 2GB. That is going to make me rush out and buy this... not.; Thu Mar 22, 06:36:00 AM 2007
Anonymous said...: Is toshiba actually going to produce little needed accessories for this player, such as A FREAKING CAR CHARGER?; Sat Mar 24, 08:50:00 AM 2007
Anonymous said...: If they plan to neglect it like the S,I recommend they rename it the FU series; Wed Mar 28, 10:12:00 AM 2007
Anonymous said...: After experiencing the total lack of customer service and of taking care of the obvious mistakes they made when producing the S series, I am never going to buy a Toshiba product again.

Maybe someone should help them look up 'lifetime value'...; Tue Apr 03, 02:25:00 PM 2007
Josh04 said...: A-B Repeat is like on DVD players. You pick two points and it plays between them.; Thu Apr 12, 02:40:00 PM 2007