The fiend is Freescale's MC13783 PMIC—a chipset used to regulate and control power—which is used in the the Gigabeat S Series. This is the model that Microsoft used as the basis for their Zune. Whoever is guilty here, don't worry if you

The same one used in the Toshiba Gigabeat S Series, which, in fact, had the same exact freezing/clock issue the Zune did (since Toshiba made the first Gen Zunes for MS). But I hear no mention of Gigabeats freezing or a 'GigaGate'!

Reader ndtechnologies adds, "According to posts in the Toshiba forum at anythingbutipod.com, the same bug that shut down millions of Zune 30's also affects the Toshiba Gigabeat S. The Zune 30 is based off of the Gigabeat S series and

Microsoft’s 30GB Zune player, power management modules, inter-year problem (when the date of arrival January 1, 2009, the machine will restart the cycle) also affected the Toshiba Gigabeat S Series player,However, according to Microsoft

The fiend is Freescale's MC13783 PMIC, the power management integrated circuit--chips used to regulate and control power--which is used in the the Gigabeat S Series. This is the model that was used as the basis for the Zune.

This code is actually code written for Freescale’s MC13783 PMIC (PDF Whitepaper) and it seems like its affecting other players that have this PMIC like the Gigabeat S Series. This makes a lot of sense since the Zune 30 was heavily bases

The Gigabeat S Series has the same PMIC. In any case, don't worry if you are one of the six people who have a Toshiba Gigabeat: According to one user in the same thread, the Zune fix works too [Anythingbutipod forum thread via

It's because the driver was written by Freescale with a bug in it, microsoft didn't write the driver themself, neither did toshiba, but they both used the driver for the zune/gigabeat S series that the zune was based on.

Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and efficient than your device’s stock firmware while remaining easy to use and customizable. We believe that you should never need to go through a series of menus for an action you

Microsoft doesn't do handheld music players, but it's not hard to imagine that it would prefer more users to buy devices running its Portable Media Center software rather than Apple iPods. It's certainly…

Toshiba recently updated its Gigabeat series PMP with the new “Gigabeat V41″. This portable media player comes with a 3.5-inch QVGA display providing a bright and clear screen for watching your favourite WMV movie. There’s an integrated 1Seg TV tuner module that gives access to your should-watch-list TV programme everytime everywhere. A direct recording is possible as well, in which the recorded video will be stored on its 4GB onboard memory or on a SDHC card (up to 8GB supported). Measures 115 x 75 x 14.2mm and weighs 168 grams, Gigebeat V41 support the following music playback: MP3, WMA, and WMA 9 Lossless.

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Measures 76.7 x 36.2 x 11.4mm and weighs 46 grams, Gigabeat U is the new DAP series from Toshiba. Apart from the slightly modified design, this MP3 player also sports the new LSI (TC94A82XBG) which is claimed to deliver a better audio quality. Other features include a built-in FM radio tuner and supports for popular audio formats (MP3, WMA, and WMA DRM10). This player is available in version: U102 (1GB) and U202 (2GB).

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A quick update from Toshiba regarding their MP3 player product, the Gigabeat. The P-Series under this brand has received an extra three new colors with a storage capacity variants between 512MB and 1GB. Thankfully, there are some new features too - the FM radio tuner, the new watch capability, and auto power-off function (this is quite handy). Measures 31.9 x 13.2 x 82 mm and weighs 50 grams, these audio players offer 14 hours of battery life.

I’ve tried to find any detail or additional information about this on Toshiba’s web site, but nope, nothing there. But you can still enjoy some more pics of the new Gigabeat P-Series MP3 player below, after the jump.

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Remember the Gigabeat S-Series MP3 players we mentioned earlier this year? Well, it’s finally ready to release on the Japanese market. This highly anticipated MP3 player - more into PMP I think, since it can also play video - come in two variants, the 30GB S30 model and a huge 60GB S60V model. Thaks to the “Windows Mobile software for Portable Media Center (PMC)”, the S30 and S60V can support WMA, MP3, WAV, WMV, and MPEG2 format. Of course the standard FM radio tuner capability also included.

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Toshiba has recently announced their new MP3 player under the Gigabeat series. The P5 model, or dubbed as the CanCam edition, features a color OLED display, a unique “plus-shaped” navigation button, 14 hours of continuous playback, and support to MP3, WMA, WAV, and JPEG image files. Measures 31.9 x 13.2 x 82 mm and weighs around 49 grams, Gigabeat P5 is available in two flavours, the shiny gold and the sweet pink color. It also has two capacity variants, one with 512MB, and other with 1GB of storage.

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