Toshiba Gigabeat 60GB MP3 player first look @ Pocket-lint

October 13, 2004

Once again GristyMcFisty found his way to our news submit to inform us that Pocket-lint has a brief review on Toshiba's upcoming Gigabeat digital music player. Toshiba has been producing small hard disks for digital music players for a long time but it seems that they have kept their best model for their own player.

The Toshiba Gigabeat will offer a whopping storage space of 60GB and will have a large 2.2 inch QVGA 240x320 pixel colour screen. According to Pocket-lint, because of its large colour screen, the Gigabeat will offer users the possibility to view and record covers and Toshiba will later release an add-on which makes it possible to store and view digital images on the player.

The key appeal here is the 15,000 song capacity and the battery life. The control interface is good, although our pre-production model was dogged by poor response. Whether or not it beats the ClickWheel or Zen Touch slider is likely to come down to personal choice, but the though of doubling up this player as an image view does sound attractive as long as the done well. For those still struggling, the Gigabeat will also come in three colours '“ pink, blue and silver just like the new Sony NW-HD1.

Will this become the new MP3 large storage king? It has potential and as long as the 'Plus Cross" is as responsive as Toshiba say it will be, we can certainly see this fulfilling the storage demands of those who feel the current wave of 40Gb players isn't big enough. That combined with the large colour screen to give this the edge, its just whether customers feels its got the style to carry it off.

For those of you who are looking to buy a digital music player you might want to wait a while until the Toshiba is released. As of yet there is no information available on what the Toshiba Gigabeat is going to cost. If you're interested you can check out the complete review of the Gigabeat here.

Source: Pocket-lint