New Mother-of-all Pocket PCs Coming from Toshiba?

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.pocketpcitalia.com/

I knew that Toshiba had something cooking, but this might be the delicious high-end Pocket PC yet. The info is in Italian, but the basics are as follows:

• Toshiba e750
• 400 Mhz Intel XScale
• 128 MB RAM 8O
• 4 inch Transflective screen
• SDIO slot
• Integrated WiFi (802.11b I would assume)
• Removable battery
• Q1 2003 shipping

Sounds quite nice!

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.pocketpcitalia.com/

I knew that Toshiba had something cooking, but this might be the delicious high-end Pocket PC yet. The info is in Italian, but the basics are as follows:

• Toshiba e750
• 400 Mhz Intel XScale
• 128 MB RAM 8O
• 4 inch Transflective screen
• SDIO slot
• Integrated WiFi (802.11b I would assume)
• Removable battery
• Q1 2003 shipping

Sounds quite nice!

[vincentsiaw]

wow 4 inch screen! what's the resolution, a vga like the nexio? oh ya how heavy as well?

[ricksfiona]

Sounds pretty cool! I just have a couple of questions:

1) Will it have Bluetooth?
2) Will the dimensions be similar to an IPAQ especially with a bigger screen.

A bigger screen is nice, but not at the expense of size and weight of the unit. You should be able to fit a 4" screen into an IPAQ size PDA.

[sponge]

I'm wondering if this will have the new Imageon chip.

[toshtoshtosh]

Ah there it is, I meant to submit that as front page news, but I guess it's still only a rumor.

This would be a killer device. I'm assuming it's keeping the e740 form factor (since it's name e750), which is the smallest 2 slot pda available (smaller than the ipaq). Hope we hear more about it soon!!

EDIT: my bad, it IS on the front page.

[bdeli]

news was posted earlier this morning:

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/foru...?p=41689#41689

[Timothy Rapson]

Cover included? No

VGA? No

New OS that uses that 400 MZ? No

Blue tooth AND WiFI? No

Camera built in? No

New smaller size for a dual slot" No

Breakthrough price like the Axim?No

What's new? 128 meg ram. Yawn. 64 is lots with the easy seamless integration of Flash cards for either storage or programs.

It sounds like a nice enough Genio or E700 series, and it is nice that you told us about it, but unless there is something unreported there's not much to get excited about.

[toshtoshtosh]

Originally Posted by Timothy Rapson

Cover included? No

[...]

but unless there is something unreported there's not much to get excited about.

Sorry If I'm more excited about a 4inch transflective screen than a plastic cover . One step at a time people!

[portus]

I'd rather not have so many stuff built into a single device. The more functions you build into the device, the more possible points of failure. Hence the less reliable a device becomes.

[ECOslin]

Translation from 'freetranslation.com'.

An authoritative ours source overseas anticipates us in exclusive those that will be the features of the new Pocket PC of Toshiba initialed e750. The endowment of next questo produced some Japanese business is announced still a time to the avant-garde. - Processore Intel XScale to 400mhz - 128MB of RAM - Display LCD Transflective of 4 thumbs - Slot Compact Flash and SD THE/OR - Wi-Fi integrated - Battery removibile From an immediate analysis is noted immediately the presence of 128MB of Ram and of a display LCD of 4 thumbs with technology transflective. It is assumed it is able to be then prodotta a version with Bluetooth integrated. The date of throw of the product is expected for the first months
of 2003. The price is all still to define but, to the light of the last developments in commercial subject of politics aside of the varied brand and of Toshiba particularly, would have to be very interesting.

Is that 4 thumbs tall? The features sound like what I would look for in a PDA. Wi-fi integrated, CF, more memory.

Edward



http://www.freetranslation.com/