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Oh the irony of Toshiba making a "multimedia" device

I have the Toshiba G810 that I won through a draw. This device, if I am correct, is not a rebranded HTC. This was developed in-house.

But from the initial launch of the device over half a year ago, the pockethal support on it has been broken. Toshiba HK has just blown off the customer, saying it just isn't supported. Of course, HTC devices rebranded to Toshiba work perfectly.

DirectDraw is broken -- videos are painfully slow on this device no matter what player you use, unless you recode them to the QVGA resolution (this was not necessary on my older Ipaq). As for games -- 99% of them does not work. Even old ones like Snails, Anthelion, Anthelion 2, refuse to work. Java games do no better. Heck, even regular programs are slow. They load and run faster on my old Ipaq 2210.

Anyways...I'm not going to hold my breath. If this new device was developed in-house as well, there's no guarantees they won't make the same mistakes again. And given Toshiba's "stellar" customer support track record, I doubt they'll do much to rectify it (similar to how they've chosen to ignore the issues on the G810).

EDIT: Oh and also...the G810 also doesn't have a 3.5mm jack. It has a mini-USB out. And as expected, the stock headsets have horrible quality.
However, Toshiba does not carry any 3.5mm adapters. So I tried 2-3 aftermarket ones at my local electronics stores

They don't work. None of them.

So there. That's why I don't have faith in Toshiba in making a multimedia device.