04-21-2004, 02:00 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Toshiba: There is no e830!
PocketPC Tools reports that Toshiba France has denied the existence of the e830: "In response to the rumors of the e830 and rampant misinformation propagated by Toshiba itself about the discontinuing of the e800, Toshiba France issued a statement to PocketPC Paradise about the situation (roughly translated from the original French):
According to Didier Halbique, Retail & Product Marketing Manager of Toshiba France, "... Pocket PC e800 is by no means at the end of the lifetime at Toshiba. Indeed this product, which meets a sharp success on the French market, will evolve even during May to Windows Mobile 2003 second edition like previously announced. This "new" Pocket PC e800 of share its new version of Windows Mobile 2003 second edition will be called well Pocket PC e800 and will keep the same design features as the current product.
This Pocket PC e800 equipped with Windows Mobile 2003 second edition will be one of the official advertisements at the time of the 4th Forum of the Mobile Solutions which will take place on May 4, 2004 with the intercontinental hotel of Paris (pc.toshiba.fr). In addition, all the current owners of Pocket PC e800 will be able to make evolve their product to Windows Mobile 2003 second edition and this free via a remote loading on the Web site of Toshiba (pc.toshiba.fr for France) as from the second week of May."
At least we have a Toshiba person with a name and title announcing that the Toshiba WM2003 SE upgrade will be free... :wink:
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04-21-2004, 02:27 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Sep 2003
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i'm curious why toshiba france seems to produce all the news.
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04-21-2004, 02:44 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
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toshiba never denied the e803 according to brighthand. But denied the discontinuation of the e805.
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04-21-2004, 02:44 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Umm, Pat. It's PocketPC Tools.  ops:
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04-21-2004, 02:56 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by jkendrick
Umm, Pat. It's PocketPC Tools. ops: |
Aaargh! ops: Sorry about that - it's been one of those days. I've fixed it.
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04-21-2004, 02:59 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Originally Posted by Pat Logsdon
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Originally Posted by jkendrick
Umm, Pat. It's PocketPC Tools. ops: |
Aaargh! ops: Sorry about that - it's been one of those days. I've fixed it. |
I sympathize- I've one of those weeks (so far). 
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04-21-2004, 03:04 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Originally Posted by Spiral
i'm curious why toshiba france seems to produce all the news.
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Toshiba France had to respond because a major online retailer in France ran a promotion to sell e800s for 299 euros in error. They then sent an email to all the buyers who ordered one and they blamed the fact that Toshiba had informed them the e800 was discontinued and would be replaced by the e830 in July. Toshiba had to make sure the e805 would still sell and everybody wouldn't just wait for the e830, which Toshiba did NOT say would not be released in the future.
They just said the next announced device would be the e800 with SE installed.
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04-21-2004, 07:01 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
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In the Pocketpcparadise.com original article, I don't see anything where Didier Halbique from Toshiba France denies the e830. He only says the e805 isn't discontinued. I read it in French and then in the translation provided on their site.
Not that I believe Toshiba is going to produce two fairly similar high end PPCs simultaneously.
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04-21-2004, 07:28 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Dang, this sounds like a soap opera!
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04-21-2004, 11:03 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Well, I'm waiting for the e830 anyway. :?
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