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Toshiba P5 goes gorgeously sweet
comment: 13 | Thursday, February 23 (2006) 02:35AM | Posted by Robert Sinke
As if the "regular" P5 wasn't colorful enough, some Japanese fashion magazine ("CanCam") has just added two new editions to the existing spectrum of Toshiba's Gigabeat P-series. They're called "Gorgeous" and "Sweet" respectively - colors are bling-bling gold & oh-dear-me-my-teeth-hurt pink.

Of course, this is your typical Japan-only, limited-edition-like type of stuff - I hope you've still got that Frequent Flyer Bonus Trip To Japan Voucher if uber-pink happens to be your favorite color. The Japanese can pick either one of these babies up (which reminds us: we're going to need a baby-blue version too) as of late February ("Gorgeous": Feb. 25th, "Sweet": Feb. 28th).

Remarkably so, the guys and gals over at CanCam managed to keep the price level at "acceptable insanity" levels: 14.5k Japanese Yen (120 bucks or so). That's only 520 Yen more than the "regular" (it's really not that regular-looking) P5, plus you get an exclusively-designed box to go with it all.

Specs are said not be affected by this horrific attack of the Bling-Pink army. For that, we can only be thankful.

LINK (Babel'd Japanese)
Comments

Michael
Location: New York City
Comments: 2802
Feb 23 (2006) 03:44AM  

I've gotten word that this will be their next player:



Not that there's anything wrong with that.


If post is offensive or pic is too big please delete

[ edited Feb 23 (2006) 03:45AM ]




Saijin_Naib
Location: Warren, NJ
Comments: 927
Feb 23 (2006) 03:48AM  

heh... good stuff man




Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
Feb 23 (2006) 03:55AM  

heh, yeah. seems not unlikely, even




sgt peppers
Location: Massachusetts
Comments: 14
Feb 23 (2006) 10:55AM  

Check this out even though it has nothing to do with the P5

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interesting...




Allen
Location: Dub Vee Ooo
Comments: 1511
Feb 23 (2006) 01:14PM  

Lol nice disclaimer on the bottom ssj... I wish the screen was a little larger on this player...





Hari Iyer

Comments: 87
Feb 23 (2006) 01:15PM  

I really dunno about these players, they're pretty big for only 512/1gb capacity. And they really could have made the screen bigger...i reckon there's a lot of empty space on the inside =D




mysticalpha
Location: NY
Comments: 42
Feb 23 (2006) 01:35PM  

I like the looks of the samsung one better




Melker63

Comments: 26
Feb 23 (2006) 02:05PM  

Another MP3-player with non-replaceable built-in battery. Great!

Why cant manufactors understand that although 80-85% dont care, the remaining 15-20% actually prefers players with replacable standard-batteries. They should adjust their model-program accordingly.




Shizh
Location: Canada
Comments: 3
Feb 23 (2006) 03:11PM  

Seems ok, but looks cheap.. I prefer Samsung's




chunks

Comments: 1
Feb 23 (2006) 05:27PM  

Melker,

at a guess, this might have something to with non-user replaceable batteries:

[Linky]

If you supply something with batteries within the EU (nice big market) you (or the importer) are responsible for collecting up any dud batteries and recycling them / disposing of them, and then doing the same with the player later on (WEEE directive).

Easier just to take the whole unit back and incur one set of costs rather than two.

I think you'll find that this is why apple have never mucked about with replaceables (certainly not recently) - they tend to be pretty well up on the game with enviro legislation, and in control of costs...






Adam

Comments: 78
Feb 23 (2006) 05:49PM  

the black one didn't look half bad




Design Fabulous

Comments: 1038
Feb 24 (2006) 05:45PM  

I'll stick to my original colors...




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