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A few quirks but overall great

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:00:01 GMT

A few quirks but overall great

pk509 from Austin, TX

Overall, I've had a good experience with my 60GB Gigabeat (note that I only use this product for music). It has great sound quality, easily browsed menus, and was very, very easy to setup with Windows Media Player. The quirks I've had are as follows: *Although the unit will charge via USB, it doesn't charge when you're transferring files so make sure you charge it afterwards if you've done a lot of work - it uses battery life at a faster rate when the processor is working. *In the same vein, browsing music menus while listening to music makes the processor work which uses battery life faster than I would think it would. *If you turn the battery off (via a tiny switch on the bottom) and you don't have fully (or almost fully) charged battery, it will not turn back on. Some reviews I read previous to buying indicated that their battery would die and reset the unit cauing all the music files and such to be erased. I have not experienced this problem, but some others have. It … Read more

Great sound and device interface

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:01 GMT

Great sound and device interface

Adam from Boston, MA

I just got this device to help pass the time during some lengthy flights I will soon be taking. The device itself is great - the Windows Mobile interface is unique among other PMP devices I've seen and used, and perhaps not surprisingly, it is intuitive and extremely functional as an OS. There is a ton of storage capacity on this particular model, so you can effectively store a bunch of movies in addition to most of your music collection. It has a hard power off switch, that allows you to store the device for a period of time without the battery slowly losing its juice. My only gripe is regarding the primary interface that is used to transfer songs to the device. It could just be me, but Windows Media Player is just not an intuitive application, especially when you introduce the concept of synchronizing songs to a device. It works (mostly), but it is extraordinarily confusing. I haven't figured out how to effectively sync a list in WMP with my device, and as a result, end up … Read more

Says what it Does !

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:00:01 GMT

Says what it Does !

The Cruise Nut from Palm Beach Gardens, FL

The player is great. The sound quality is good, easy to use controls on the front and side. The only thing that bugs me is you have to sort your music through the Windows media player to create play lists, if your not familiar with media player it is a pain (atleast for me). I wish you could create files folders. Other downfall is there is no carrying case made for the unit, atleast not yet, by any company. Read more

10x Greater than an Ipod

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:01 GMT

10x Greater than an Ipod

D-Man from Wisconsin

This Mp3 player is the best one out there. All my friends have different ones and they all want mine. It looks, Sounds, and Preforms awsome. The only thing is it doesnt come with a carring case, but i went [...] and got a case that fits it perfect, you would never guess it wasnt made for it. I would recomend this over any other Mp3 player out there. Read more

"Explain to me what kind ...

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:01 GMT

"Explain to me what kind ...

Tom H from Undisclosed

Explain to me what kind of moron would design a thing like this that can, without warning, delete every file. You may have your full 60 gig filled up, then you plug it in and suddenly it decides to restart by wiping out the entire thing! Yes, there is a choice in Media Player for auto sync or manual sync. And even if you are careful to have it on manual, that doesn't mean it can't switch back, with the same kind of resorting-to-default errors that you've seen in other crappy software. It happened to me like the third day. And my wife has a 30 gig model and the same thing happened about 20 minutes ago. I just wanted to put a couple albums from Napster on it, simple enough, but wait...we're going to delete everything instead! You would think that it would ask you "Are you sure you want to proceed with this operation?" or something, but no. You know, if you have a document in a word processor and you change a period to a comma it asks you if you want to save it. But 30-60 gig down the d … Read more