Here’s a much anticipated device by Toshiba, the S30, the first player of that brand that runs on Windows Portable Media Center. This is not a detailed review because we litteraly just had the device in our hands, but we do want to show you some pictures and a small HD video.

First of all, let’s say that Windows Media for an MP3 player like this S30 is a good thing. the menus are very clear, switching from pictures, videos, TV shows to MP3′s is a really simple task, and Apple should really get one of these to see how Microsoft managed to make this less of an ordeal as on the iPOD. The cross-shaped pad is a real joy to use, especially when compared to the horrible iPOD or CoWon iAudio6 wheel (I really hate those controls, but that’s just my opinion). You can connect this MP3 player to your PC in the same way as an iRIVER or CoWon, and it mounts as a HDD to give you immediate access to all of its contents (videos, pictures, MP3 files, …).

So after playing with the S30 for 5 minutes, I was really impressed both on a design level as on an OS level. Here’s some advice for those of you that are doubting: get this one and dump that iPOD… granted, the Apple looks great too, but it’s just too restricted… which is kind of strange to say: an Apple product is more restrictive than a Microsoft product!

The S30 and S60 are available on GeekStuff4U.com
Gigabeat S30
Gigabeat S60V

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A quick look at the GigaBeat S30!
(WMV9HD 720p Torrent “right click, save-as”)