The Toshiba TG01 smartphone, notable for its use of a high-powered 1GHz Snapdragon CPU from Qualcomm, has appeared on the FCC website. Unlike the usual FCC listings, the TG01 tested in this case is a production-ready device with support for CDMA networks and not a prototype, indicating it will very soon launch at either Sprint [...]

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One of the hottest pieces of gear this year just made its way to retail in Japan. Less than a centimeter thick, the NTT DoCoMo T-01A is the same TG01 device revealed by Toshiba back in February running Qualcomm’s ultra-fast 1GHz Snapdragon chipset. As such, our far east brethren can lay claim to that 4.1-inch [...]

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At the CEATEC technology conference in Japan, Toshiba is demonstrating a methanol-based fuel cell for mobile phones. This direct methanol fuel cell uses an interaction between the methanol, water and air to generate enough electrical charge to power 6 hours of talk time in a cell phone. A 50 mL cartridge would be able to [...]

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Toshiba will officially release its latest Smartphone in 8 days (June 20th), the G810. Like the G710 and G910, this new Smartphone runs on Windows Mobile 6.1, and boasts HSDPA and HSUPA support.
Otherwise, it features a large 2.83″ QVGA (320 x 240) touch screen, 3Mpix camera, Bluetooth v2.0, USB v2.0, WiFi 802.11 b/g, FM radio [...]

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oshiba has made an official announcement of the G450 cellphone designed for one-touch access to the Internet via mobile networks. This tiny device is a good solution for the users who need a phone to be used as a portable modem for PC. The G450 mobile device can be connected to the standard USB-port and [...]

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Toshiba has unveiled its Portege G810 communicator at Mobile World Congress 2008. This is a compact Windows Mobile-powered candy bar with a touchscreen and no hardware keyboard. It boasts of the support for 2G/3G networks, HSDPA and HSUPA standards. The company expects to ship the Portege G810 to Europe in 2Q 08, but it hasn’t [...]

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It has become a tradition with many Japan’s handset makers to give names of big TV brands to mobile displays and phone image processing systems. For example, Toshiba has equipped its new 921T handset (announced yesterday by SoftBank operator) with a widescreen OLED display called “REGZA”.
This clamshell phone has a waterproof shell, which complies with [...]

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Toshiba announced several phones recently for overseas markets, but the quad-band GSM/EDGE Portege G710 will work with U.S. networks. This Windows Mobile 6 Standard smartphone has a full QWERTY keyboard, stereo Bluetooth, a 2 Megapixel camera and on-board GPS. It also has a microSD slot for added storage, but lacks 3G and Wi-Fi. It will [...]

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Toshiba is not that a big player in the cellphone/smartphone business. Still their G900 & G500 Windows mobile handsets are good smartphone sliders with lots of interesting features. And soon they will have one more cool handset to offer.

It’s Toshiba Portege G910 & Portege G920 flip smartphones, that turned up on FCC site late Friday.
There’s [...]

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Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology has developed a circular LCD with a 65 mm diagonal (the screen area). The Toshiba’s technology allows making different shapes of LCD panels with the complexity production level of rectangular displays. Toshiba believes that the new displays will be widely applied in future mobile phones and other compact devices of circular [...]

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