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| Review | Rating | Last Updated | AMAZING!!!!!!
I just got a toshiba gigabeat F20. it is awesome. the screen is big, the controls take a little getting used to but are awesome. the plus sign control completly beats the iPod click wheel. its software is alright but i kinda hard to use. but who cares?! once you figure it out, its a piece of cake. wonderful mp3 player. i cant find anything wrong with it except that lack of features. no fm radio, no voice recorder, no line out.. but its good anyways. | 5 | Today | Aplha prototype sold as real product, with surly inept tech support
I will never buy any product from Toshiba ever again. I have two gigabeats (one for me one for s.o.), well now I have one because the other has completely ceased to function. I obviously bought them at the same time because no one would get a second once you've seen these. These are shoddy untested prototypes sold as working models, for example: if you ever let the battery charge run fully out, it forgets what time it is and has to have the time painstakingly reset, and the controls go haywire (in my case any time it needs recharging the button gets stuck on "up" so if I want to do anything at all other than turn the volume up really loud, like play a song for example, I have to put the gigabeat on 'hold' and use the remote to control it - if it can't be done on the remote it can't be done on my gigabeat). The gigabeat room software routinely crashes or freezes in mid transfer, and system monitor shows it using 99% of my CPU when it stalls so it's obviously a bug. To make matters worse Toshiba has made it nearly impossible to contact them in any way about your gigabeat, and when you do speak to someone they are hands down the worst tech support I have ever seen for any product anywhere, both in complete technical incompetence "you should probably reinstall windows if gigabeat room is crashing" to general condescending 'screw the customer' attitude. | 1 | Today | Takes time to learn, but great to use
Overall I'm extremely happy with buying the toshiba gigabeat. The toshiba gigabeat takes a while to learn how to use, but the flexibility of the device is great and allows a high level of customization.
The player has an amazing amount of flexibility and settings, being able to chooose different screen settings (horizontal/vertical), different wallpaper settings, power up settings/battery settings, play settings, goes on and on. I really enjoy the amount of customization that can go into setting up the device, and being able to show photos is handy as well. I also found the button and menu system easy to use... after learning and messing around with how the system works.
Battery life is fine... once I learned how to set the player to automatically turn off the screen after 40 seconds of non use.
The main problem is simply learning the ins and outs of the device. Once you spend some time with the software guide book and device instruction book, I find the device's functionality to be great (for both transferring music and other files). I don't consider the problem a reason to lower the rating however, because some time spent with the device has provided enough familiarity with the device that using the device has become a simple process.
Many of the device commands are also intuitive and easy to remember after learning how the commands are set up for the device.
Being compatible with the Napster music subscription service helps a lot as well, and it may sound silly but seeing a color screen is rather nifty. | 5 | Today | Best toy for the price
I've had my Gigabeat for 2 weeks so far. It's heavier than the Ipod, but that makes it feel more solid to me. I'm not a big fan of the controls, but I may need to get used to them. The program isn't as awful as everyone makes it out to be. I wish Media 10 worked with 2.0 uSB, but that is no fault of Toshiba. The nice feature on the program is MusicID, if you have any songs in your library with any missing info, the program finds it and fills it in. There is also a great feature for downloading CD's directly to the player with the press of one button. Put the CD into your computer, press a button on your player's cradle, and in about 2 minutes the CD is on your player. Very Nice, great bang for your buck.
By the way, order the Belkin Portable Music TuneCast II FM Transmitter. I play my Gigabeat through my truck's radio and cleaned out the clutter of all my CD's in my truck. | 5 | Today | Great Price, Bad Enterface
The Gigabeat is an awesome mp3 player for the price. 20 gigs for $200 is not bad. The program that comes along is akward and confusing to use, but you can use windows media player or my computer to manage the song. The guide for the player is terrible written, it took me 2 days to figure how to get to the main menu to pick a different (hint, press the power button once and it pulls it up). If you use random the songs take a while to pull up sometimes. The earbuds that come with it are ok, but they sit farther out ear, so not as noisy as the iPod. If you are use to the iPod it may take a while to get use to. It is a great buy, and it has serveral ways to charge the mp3 which is neat. I personally feel like it is less likely to get stolen than an iPod. good price, guy it!!!! | 5 | Today | Excellent mp3 Player, great price.
This is an excellent mp3 player. It has a beautiful interface(much nicer than the ipod). You can change the background of the player with any picture you've added to the player. The screen's resolution is way better than the ipod video(and i have an ipod video). So overall this is an excellent mp3 player, some people might complaint about the software, but just read the manual, once you understand it it's so easy you're gonna want to kick yourself! i definitely recommend this player if you're not interested in video playback. | 5 | Today | Toshiba gigabeat
The Toshiba gigabeat is an excellent product. The rugged aluminum casing has withstood quite a beating on my last snowboarding trip. It is an excellent companion at the gym. Works will with Napster downloads and has been an all around good product and I don't believe that I utilize it to it's fullest potential!
Thanks,
Ed | 5 | Today | Pretty good MP3 Player
Overall this is a pretty good mp3 player. It has nice quality sound, the delay between songs is very short, and the picture quality of the screen is great. The player, although small, is also built very though with a strong chassis.
Downsides, the headphones that come with the player are horrible and uncomfortable. The software is a little difficult to use at first, and it could use some features to be able to apply album covers to multiple songs. You also can only get USB 2 speeds with the Toshiba software, and not Windows Media Player. And for some reason, some of my albums that I put on the player with Windows Media Player don't show up in the Toshiba software.
Also when I first received my player, it would freeze up often. The customer service was great, after trying a format they told me to send it in for repair. I got my player back 3 days after their tech support received it. Since then the player no longer freezes.
This is a great player for the money, but I would recommend buying a pair of headphones to go with it. | 4 | Today | I like it
Yes the software is not the easiest to work with, but the other features "take the cake". I have teamed up my 20 gb gigabeat with a set of shure e2c headphones. I am pleased with the results, I operate heavy equipment so music has been out of the question. The sound isolating e2c set and the srs wow feature make it possible to listen to tunes at well under half volume. This allows me to whistle while I work. | 4 | Today | How it Works and what you'll get if you buy it
Pros:
+ The music quality is excellent. Better than the quality that comes from my computer speakers and better than my Stereo, because with headphones on you can hear every instrument in the orchestra, and the volume changes and everything, its great.
+ It has a few nice features, like you can put pictures on it and view them on the screen and show your friends, and thats cool. And it has several neat play modes in the menu including: "Play All" which lets you choose the song you want, "Play Random" which chooses a random song, and "Repeat One" and "Repeat Album". Kinda arbitrary considing you could just hit the 'left' button right before the song ends and repeat the song, it would be easier than finding that option in the menu. Theres a "bookmark" option, i would imagine thats to tell the player to play one song more than the others when random is on. Again, slightly arbitary (- why not just choose the song yourself?). An "Intro feature" that will play the beggining of the song for you, (maybe to find a song you like?).
+ Sleek look, much better than those darn IPods, and less trendy =).
+ There seems to be external hardrive (sorta) support. It appears that i could perhaps boot a game off of this. I have not been able to try this though. You can store files other than music files on it. The files are not found when you turn on the player and look for them, but when you plug it into your computer you can drag them off the player onto your desktop, so its basically a USB device. I'm not sure why Toshiba didn't advertize this ANYWHERE in the manual or online, its insanely useful.
Cons:
- I think there are probably better MP3 players out there. I think before Toshiba put the extra photo feature on this player they should have worked out the playing music for more than 6 hours part first. What if i wanted to use this on a long plane trip overseas? It wouldn't last.
- The battery power is terrible. Its roughly 6 hours in normal, slightly chilly, conditions. I think the box said ten. The box lied.
- It also gives weird errors sometimes, or randomly shuts off for no reason after you turn it on.
- Toshiba seems to have forgotten the "back" option sometimes. You press the power button to pull up a menu with options like "Album" and "Artist" but theres no 'back' if you want to get back to the regular playing song mode or you want to go to a completely different Menu such as the "Menu" option with Play mode and Skin mode. So you have to turn the player off and on to get rid of the menu, or choose a different song and have it play for a few seconds.
- The "ok" button doesn't really exist. Yer supposed to press in the middle of the + sign that the scroll pad makes to say "ok" but that doesn't really work work very well because its just as likely that the player thinks you are hitting right or left and thats annoying because then it changes the song you're on. And sometimes you have to hit right or left to say "ok" and the times when you press in the middle and the times that you hit right or left are arbitrary.
-There are a lot of options on this player i do not understand and will never use, and i just put some of them above. Its not that i don't know what they do, its that i can't imagine why anyone would want the function they provide.
- The touch pad they use is either too sensitive or not sensitive enough. The middle could be far more sensisitve and the ends are too sensitive. And the whole touch pad thing anyway is rediculous, there should just be buttons to avoid the possibility of scrolling down way farther than you wanted (IPod is notoriously bad at that with their new scroll bar things too). What happened to buttons?!??! An "ok" button and a "left" and "right" button would be insanely better. | 3 | Today |
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