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GSMArena team, 13-19 February 2008

MWC 2008


MWC 2008: Various brands overview

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6. Toshiba Portege series
  1. 1. Readius mobile phone
  2. 2. iriver GSM phone
  3. 3. The Garmin Nuvifone
  4. 4. Modu - the transformer
  5. 5. Android prototype
  6. 6. Toshiba Portege series
  7. 7. i-mate Ultimate 9502, 8502, 8150, 6150
  8. 8. Gigabyte MS804 and MW998
  9. 9. Eten M810 and V900
  10. 10. Alcatel and their bunch of phones
  11. 11. Sagem's new announcements
  12. 12. HP IPAQ 614 Business Navigator
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  14. Review comments (26)

Android Toshiba Portege i-mate Gigabyte Eten Alcatel Sagem HP Windows Mobile MWC 2008

Hands-on the Toshiba Portege series

The Toshiba stand at the Mobile World Congress was the next stop in our window-shopping tour. A few new devices were on display and they looked promising, at least on paper. So, we lingered at the Toshiba booth to give you a basic idea of what the devices look like.

Toshiba at MWC 2008
Toshiba's booth at the WMC

Toshiba Portege G910/G920

The Toshiba G910/G920 Portege is the most feature-loaded device showcased at the booth. It sports a full QWERTY keyboard and a whole bunch of other high-end features. You've got Wi-Fi, GPS, a powerful processor and a whole lot of RAM. Only the camera (2 megapixel unit) can be a little disappointing.

In fact, the camera is close to useless, since you need to open the device to use the internal screen as a viewfinder. In that scenario however, the camera lens ends up right under your fingers.

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Toshiba G910 Portege

Toshiba G910 Portege is quite a heavy bloke and, therefore, not the easiest to work with. However, it does make up for that with a large display of WVGA resolution that we found splendid for web browsing for example. The QWERTY keyboard is also a joy to use, with large enough keys to make typing quite pleasant.

The device is also quick enough and that makes navigation through the menus a much better experience.

Toshiba Portege G810

Toshiba G810 Portege is a touchscreen device with touch-sensitive keys below the display. It has enough processing power and features, but navigation could've been a lot better.

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Toshiba G810 Portege

We found working with the touch-sensitive keys quite a challenge, as they weren't as responsive as we would've liked. Still, this is by far not the final version of the phone, so it is likely to improve before hitting the shelves.

Toshiba Portege G710

Next comes the Toshiba G710 Portege, which is again a Windows Mobile-powered device. This time however the standard edition is used.

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Toshiba G710 Portege

Less powerful than the G910, the Toshiba G710 Portege wasn't as pleasing to work with. It felt rather bulky in the hand too, so it doesn't win many points on size either.

Toshiba Portege G450

The Toshiba Portege G450 is a 4-in-1 portable device. It's a portable HSDPA USB modem, a diminutive mobile phone, a USB data storage device and an MP3 player - all that weighing 57 g.

The Toshiba G450 connects through a USB cable to your computer providing you with a broadband connection. You can even make calls on the device while you are surfing the Web through your carrier's GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA wireless network.

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Toshiba G450 Portege

It's got an OLED display with a resolution of 96 x 39 pixels, which couldn't get us rolling. As a mobile phone, the Toshiba Portege G450 doesn't have any fancy features too - the only additional feature beside the music player is the Alarm clock.

Getting around the interface is easy once you get used to the controls. You use the two side rocker keys for that purpose. The right rocker allows you to select items and then go one level up in the menu. The left rocker is used for scrolling through the menu lists. Entering text or numbers proved harder due to the unusual keypad layout.

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Toshiba G450 Portege

With 160MB of built-in storage chances are you won't probably be throwing away your music player just yet.

The good news is that Toshiba are committed to producing another device in this form factor in Q2 2008 but this time with a built-in microSD slot for expanding the onboard memory.

Next Page » 7. i-mate Ultimate 9502, 8502, 8150, 6150
6. Toshiba Portege series
  1. 1. Readius mobile phone
  2. 2. iriver GSM phone
  3. 3. The Garmin Nuvifone
  4. 4. Modu - the transformer
  5. 5. Android prototype
  6. 6. Toshiba Portege series
  7. 7. i-mate Ultimate 9502, 8502, 8150, 6150
  8. 8. Gigabyte MS804 and MW998
  9. 9. Eten M810 and V900
  10. 10. Alcatel and their bunch of phones
  11. 11. Sagem's new announcements
  12. 12. HP IPAQ 614 Business Navigator
  13.  
  14. Review comments (26)

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