Toshiba Gigabeat S60
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Toshiba Gigabeat S series music and media players were announced at CES 2006 recently. The S series is available as the S30 with a capacity of 30GB, or the S60 at 60GB. Toshiba plans to release this iPod-seeking-missile in March of 2006.
The Toshiba Gigabeat S60 gets as close to the Apple video 5G iPod 60GB as possible, without becoming one. The size, price, capacity and specs of the two devices are virtually identical. One big difference, however, is that the model S60 is a Windows Portable Media Center, so it works with wma, wmv, wav, jpeg and mp3 files. The iPod of course is more Apple-centric, and it supports mpeg4 and H.264 video playback.
Another interesting difference between them is the screen. While the iPod and the Gigabeat S60 both offer QVGA resolution, Apple has opted to go landscape, while Toshiba has gone with portrait orientation. And, despite appearances (see attached image), the screen on the iPod (left) which measures 2.5 inches, is actually larger than the screen on the S60, which comes in at 2.4 inches.
Concluding thoughts: unfortunately for the Gigabeat S60, it’s somewhat anaesthetic.
2006 CES new PMC/ portable videoplayer compilations - Impress Watch, 20060108
August 17th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
I have bought the S60 and I am totally disappointed. The device is nice and works fine but the way you have to sync the music using MediaPlayer 10 is not working for ripped CD’s that do not have Tags. I have audio books that I did place in the Music folder using the FileManager. The S60 attempts to sort them by Artist, Song, Genres, etc. but does not give you a folder view as the F60 did or as any other MP3 player I owned did. This makes this player useless for anyone that likes to listen to audio books and music that was riped from a CD. I liked this device because of size bothy physically and storage but this flaw made me decide to put it on Ebay and get rid of it. It is unfortunate that such a flaw is produced by Toshiba. I even called the customer service and they told me to simply add tags to all my 7000 songs and audio books, Yeah right!!!<br />
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My recommendation is do not buy this device until the patched this mistake in the interface design.
August 25th, 2006 at 12:57 am
I have problem using the player before but the tech support in warehouse123.com are very helpful. After they help me to resolve the problem. <br />
I’m pretty happy with my MediaPlayer 10. I have a windows media center at home and this player work perfectly with my Toshiba Gigabeat S60.<br />
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Pros: <br />
good sound quality.<br />
Excellent screen.<br />
Built-in FM tuner<br />
portable media player device, personaly I like the <br />
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cons: <br />
Poor battery life<br />