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Unboxing the Ainol U80SE PMP

Sunday, April 13, 2008

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SLIfnLCE30[/youtube] The Toshiba Gigabeat doppelganger, U80SE from Ainol has just been unboxed at AllPMP. It’s a mighty thin PMP and the cross buttons seem to work intuitively enough, from the video. It plays RM, RMVB, AVI, FLV, DAT, ASF, MP4, WMV, 3GP, MPG. [via allpmp]

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Ainol U80SE Goes Real Slim

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

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Ainol’s U80 is the Toshiba Gigabeat ideal image of a PMP. The hardware is everything Toshiba designers would have wanted a PMP to be. It’s small, pretty and thin and the new U80SE is even thinner by .8mm than its predecessor at 8.8mm. The U80SE offers QVGA viewing on a 2.2-inch screen and it will [...]

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Toshiba Gigabeat V81 gets a few upgrades

Friday, February 8, 2008

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The V81 is the newest addition in the Toshiba Gigabeat line and besides a memory upgrade, it pretty much has the same portable digital TV functions like the other Gigabeats. The V81 has 8GB of memory, which can fit about 40 hours of taped broadcasting (double than the V41), a 320 x 240-pixel 3.5-inch [...]

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Toshiba Gigabeat T802 Wi-Fi, 8GB

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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  Toshiba upgrades the Gigabeat T401 and dubs it T802. Since the T401 already has WiFi added some months ago, the only real upgrade is the additional 4GB of storage. The 8GB will come in handy if you’re in Japan as USEN video service offers 90 videos for free. These free titles will balloon in June [...]

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Kuro PMP, ezPeer+ ToGo Music Download Platform Launched

Friday, November 16, 2007

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Taiwan’s Darling Digital (which operates the ezPeer+ P2P music platform) just launched the Kuro MPEG-4 player. Details are scanty at the moment, but we do know that the device has a 2.4-inch TFT LCD, a 1GB capacity and uses proprietary software. Price will be NT$2,990 (about US$92). The Kuro was developed by C-Media Electronics, which [...]

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New Zunes Are Toshiba Gigabeat Clones

Thursday, October 11, 2007

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Microsoft never denied that the original Zune player design was done by Toshiba but did Microsoft take the new Zune design from Toshiba’s Gigabeat PMP series too? According to Akihabaranews they did and they have the pics to prove it. During CEATEC 2007, Toshiba previewed a PMP player with 3.2-inch screen that looks exactly like [...]

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Sony Shows off 1seg-Capable Walkman

Thursday, September 27, 2007

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Sony just showed off the NW-A910 Video Walkman series, which (like Toshiba’s Gigabeat V41), supports 1seg broadcasts. Slated for an early November release in Japan, the A919 (16GB), A918 (8GB) and A916 (4GB) models can handle MPEG-4 AVC and H.264 videos, ATRAC, AAC, MP3 and WMA audio files, and JPEGs. All three versions come with [...]

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Toshiba Announces Portable TV Device

Thursday, September 27, 2007

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Toshiba has released the Gigabeat V41, which supports 1seg (a Japan-only mobile TV format) broadcasts. That aside, it also works with WMV, WMA 10, WMA 9 Lossless, MP3, WAV and JPEG files. The device has a 3.5-inch, 320×240-pixel LCD, 4GB of built-in flash memory and a single speaker. Expansion is possible through an SD/SDHC [...]

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China Product Proves That Toshiba PMPs are Clone-Worthy Too

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

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The MA-917 from Shenzhen Suno Technology shows that iPods aren’t the only good source of design inspiration out there, as it sports a look that is quite similar to various Toshiba models (including the Gigabeat T400). It plays AMV video files, and MP3, WMA and WMV audio formats with lyric support. Digital images can [...]

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Toshiba Gigabeat T400 PMP Reminiscent of Zune

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

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  Everyone knows, Microsoft uses Toshiba’s PMP hardware for the Zune, and every time there is a new Gigabeat announced it’s not too farfetched to expect the same player with a Microsoft branding coming soon. So is the Gigabeat T400 worthy of the Zune branding? Without WiFi, fat chance. The 2.4-inch QVGA screen, WMV/WMA/MP3/WAV and WMA [...]

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