[ADBrown]

Originally Posted by SteveHoward999

I found that without 850 support on the phone, you get no signal in many areas. You might be lucky where you live, but I never was ...

In my case, I have only 850 coverage, so I'd get nothing from a triband phone. Some areas have both 850 and 1900--in those areas, you'd get some coverage, but not as much proportionally. There are also areas like Phoenix, Arizona, that are 1900-only. You could use this safely in the city there without any loss of signal, though you might run into issues as soon as you hit the rural areas.

[ADBrown]

Originally Posted by SteveHoward999

I found that without 850 support on the phone, you get no signal in many areas. You might be lucky where you live, but I never was ...

In my case, I have only 850 coverage, so I'd get nothing from a triband phone. Some areas have both 850 and 1900--in those areas, you'd get some coverage, but not as much proportionally. There are also areas like Phoenix, Arizona, that are 1900-only. You could use this safely in the city there without any loss of signal, though you might run into issues as soon as you hit the rural areas.

[Mark (NL)]

Well since this probably will have Toshiba's own Bluetooth solution rather than what Microsoft is selling as Bluetooth I'm more than a bit interested. It actually might keep me in the Windows Mobile camp, as I was really tempted with the Symbian based Nokia E90.

[Dyvim]

Originally Posted by Mark (NL)

Well since this probably will have Toshiba's own Bluetooth solution rather than what Microsoft is selling as Bluetooth I'm more than a bit interested.

Toshiba's Bluetooth on their previous series of PDAs, the e800 series, was pretty shoddy. Couldn't even get bluetooth keyboards designed for Pocket PCs to work with them. Their BT SD cards were ok IIRC, but their built-in stack for PocketPCs was the pits. So I wouldn't put much faith in Toshiba Bluetooth. (Although I hope that Toshiba proves me wrong with the G900.)

[Mark (NL)]

Well Toshiba's bluetooth on a laptop of theirs works like a charm for me, so can only hope they do the same with these things... anyway can't be worse than what Microsoft did with BT :wink: :mrgreen:

[srmz]

Anyone knows if this one has a semi-automatic spring loaded sliding keyboard like the HTC Kaiser or just a friction slider like the HTC Hermes

Regards

[alese]

Originally Posted by Duncan

The FCC filing and Bluetooth.org database both say BT 2.0.

I hope you are right. Considering all the devices strenghts, lack of up to date BT implementation would be at least annoying if not deal braker...

[x51vuser]

Originally Posted by MarcTGFG

Exactly: Its 128 MB program memory and 64 MB storage RAM.

I played with a preproduction unit at CeBIT and I am pretty sure it has more than 64 MB RAM and thus no problem in browsing large websites etc.

so first you are yelling it is 128 MB and now saying 'probably' and 'pretty sure' 128 MB ? You had device to play with and you do not know how to check available memory ?
None of reviews on the net says it is 128.
Yeah people go ahead and throw away $800 to verify Hans' 'pretty sure' because Toshiba will of course not publish such a important detail as amount of RAM. Please can we remove kids from this forum ?

[Duncan]

Originally Posted by x51vuser

so first you are yelling it is 128 MB and now saying 'probably' and 'pretty sure' 128 MB ? You had device to play with and you do not know how to check available memory ?
None of reviews on the net says it is 128.
Yeah people go ahead and throw away $800 to verify Hans' 'pretty sure' because Toshiba will of course not publish such a important detail as amount of RAM. Please can we remove kids from this forum ?

No-one is yelling anything. Your comment 'Please can we remove kids from this forum' is needlessly aggressive, silly and entirely out of order.

To date I've only seen one magazine review of the G900 and that stated it 128 MB RAM (112 MB available). Plus the FCC filing that says 128 MB RAM.

[MarcTGFG]

Originally Posted by x51vuser

so first you are yelling it is 128 MB and now saying 'probably' and 'pretty sure' 128 MB ? You had device to play with and you do not know how to check available memory ?
None of reviews on the net says it is 128.
Yeah people go ahead and throw away $800 to verify Hans' 'pretty sure' because Toshiba will of course not publish such a important detail as amount of RAM. Please can we remove kids from this forum ?

You have a bad day?

I know very well, how to check available RAM and it said 128 MB. Satisfied? The "pretty sure" was meant as a cautioner, that Toshiba could have decided to sell the final production version with less memory.

Since no one has seen a final retail version, no one can be 100% sure.

All evidence points to 128 MB program memory.

[martin_ayton]

Originally Posted by thierryb

if you do not need the keyboard, and have more money, take a Flame, 120 mb ram, 2gb rom, 3.6' screen, VGA, but not sure you will see any advantage of 800x480 on a 3".

I do need the keyboard, and for the purposes of carrying a 'phone which doesn't look and feel like a brick, I think a 3" widescreen is about as big as I can bear. The lack of 3G would kill the Flame for me too.