01-22-2008, 06:00 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Toshiba Preps New WM Phones
"In a Nutshell, our G910 has everything the HTC Universal had but with some improvement, like a reduced size and a smaller weight. Also a 2Mpix VGA Camera, 256MB of ROM and 128MB of RAM, an A-GPS, 3G HSDPA... This device will be sold in France in March for around 599�. 117mm x 64mm x 19.8mm for 183g only."
Akihabara News has the goods on two new Toshiba WM Phones. The first is the rumoured successor to the G900 with a form factor similar to the Universal, but keeping that cool WVGA screen. Up next is a lower-spec Blackjack lookalike, the G710, sporting GPS but with only EDGE for a data connection. Warning: the links go to pages with some very large images.
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01-22-2008, 08:04 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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So - no easy use in portrait (i.e. not flip screen), no touchscreen, only Windows Mobile Standard, a screen resolution that throws up problems with some software, and from the company that released the buggy mess that is the G900.
Is it too much to hope for a genuine successor/improvement on the Universal? The Eten M800 has had poor press, the Toshiba G900 is buggy, the imate 9502 is still nowhere to be seen, the HTC Advantage is a monster and the iPAQ 210 is without GPS or phone capabilities.
Who do we have to kill to get a genuine improvement over devices now years old?
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01-22-2008, 09:49 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 31
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Originally Posted by Duncan
So - no easy use in portrait (i.e. not flip screen)
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Why, why did they design it like this!? Ok, there's that neat external caller/time display but not being able to hold it in tablet position just kills one handed or stylus use.
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Originally Posted by Duncan
no touchscreen, only Windows Mobile Standard
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Where did you hear that? It looks like a WM Professional device to me.
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Originally Posted by Duncan
a screen resolution that throws up problems with some software
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That's actually barely a problem with the g900. Most 3rd party software is well designed and behaves surprisingly well on a wvga screen.
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Originally Posted by Duncan
and from the company that released the buggy mess that is the G900.
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Not that it makes Toshiba look any better, but a ROM upgrade was recently leaked that seems to fix most issues. I've never had that many anyway, since my device was not one of the earlier versions. I upgraded from an HTC Universal and have generally been very happy with the g900.
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01-22-2008, 06:27 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by RobrechtV
Where did you hear that? It looks like a WM Professional device to me.
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Several places have indicated it is only WM Standard. Mind you - that could be an error.
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Not that it makes Toshiba look any better, but a ROM upgrade was recently leaked that seems to fix most issues. I've never had that many anyway, since my device was not one of the earlier versions. I upgraded from an HTC Universal and have generally been very happy with the g900.
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Not exactly something that would inspire people to trust Toshiba though is it.
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01-23-2008, 10:55 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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This has to be one of the uglist devices I've seen.
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