06-25-2007, 09:00 AM
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Toshiba Portege G900 To Be Released This Month
"Toshiba's latest smartphone was in Paris and if you want to call its by his name it's the G900. As you can see it is an "horizontal slider" featuring a 3 inches wide screen (800x480), USB host, 2 MPx digicam, wifi, bluetooth, 3G, 3G+, GPRS and 64MB of RAM among other things. This product will go on sale this month in Europe and Japan for 600�."
At �600, the G900 is cheaper than I expected it to be given the spec - it undercuts the list price of the Dopod variant of the Hermes by more than 10%. All I can say is - when is it arriving in the rest of Asia?!!!?!!!
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06-25-2007, 12:31 PM
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it is well too expensive as for a phone with outdated operating system.
For example you will not be able for to browse webpages using that resolution in its Internet Explorer.
And 64 MB RAM ... again same mistake as others
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06-25-2007, 01:11 PM
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What are you talking about???
It has the newest available operating system WM 6 Professional.
And it has 128 MB RAM!
And it is the only Pocket PC to have a CTRL key for copy and paste shortcuts.
Maybe you were talking about the Hermes. Then you are exactly right.
The only thing I miss in the G900 is an autofocus camera :-(
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06-25-2007, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by MarcTGFG
It has the newest available operating system WM 6 Professional.
And it has 128 MB RAM!
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ok wm6 but where did you see 128MB of RAM ?
Send a link.
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06-25-2007, 03:30 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Is it quadband or gonna be triband so US people are out of luck?
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06-25-2007, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by ddevilx2
Is it quadband or gonna be triband so US people are out of luck?
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Tri-band, I'm afraid.
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06-25-2007, 04:25 PM
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Toshiba's own information (here) says it has: triband :roll: and 64MB RAM :evil:
Why, oh why do manufacturers persist on hobbling their products in areas where it would be easy to get them right. Apart from those two absolutely unneccesary limitations, this would have been the best product in its class. By some way.
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06-25-2007, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by martin_ayton
Toshiba's own information ( here) says it has: triband :roll: and 64MB RAM :evil:
Why, oh why do manufacturers persist on hobbling their products in areas where it would be easy to get them right. Apart from those two absolutely unneccesary limitations, this would have been the best product in its class. By some way. |
Actually - Toshiba's page only says '64MB of internal memory' which probably refers to available storage. The FCC filing, and various other sources, says 128MB RAM. A UK PDA magazine has just reviewed it and says there is 112MB available RAM.
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06-25-2007, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Duncan
Actually - Toshiba's page only says '64MB of internal memory' which probably refers to available storage. The FCC filing, and various other sources, says 128MB RAM. A UK PDA magazine has just reviewed it and says there is 112MB available RAM.
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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.
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06-25-2007, 08:18 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by Duncan
Actually - Toshiba's page only says '64MB of internal memory' which probably refers to available storage.
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Thanks - you are correct I did mis-interpret that  ops:. It makes the tri-band thing all the more mystifying. I would buy this device as a replacement for my Hermes, for the reasons Mark refers to, but I need to take it with me when I travel to the US and elsewhere and tri-band just doesn't cut it.
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