[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]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 8, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 7, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 16, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 11, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 27, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 27, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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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