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by Stephen Schenck | October 31, 2011 5:32 PMRead OnIt's been just about a year since we first saw the Toshiba TG01 Tsunagi running Windows Phone 7. Then, right at the start of this past summer, video surfaced actually showing the operating system running on Tsunagi hardware. Now, the tireless efforts of developers have led to the release of a working, unofficial copy of WP7 for the aging smartphone. The Tsunagi arrived running Windows Mobile 6.1. With a 1GHz Snapdragon and only 256MB of RAM, it's just barely up to muster as WP7 device, but worked well enough to see its adoption as a Windows Phone development platform. It's been clear that ...
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by Stephen Schenck | October 21, 2011 1:37 PMRead OnThe age of 720p smartphone displays is just beginning, with phones like the Galaxy Nexus on the way that will squeeze a high-definition picture down to a portable size. None of us expect the race for higher-and-higher resolutions and denser-and-denser pixel structures to stop now, but where exactly is it heading? Toshiba just announced a new display it's engineered for portable devices that looks like it could set the bar pretty darn high. This particular component is a smidge too large for a typical smartphone screen, measuring in at 6.1 inches, which lands it in that buffer zone between ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | August 6, 2011 2:06 AMRead OnYou might remember the Toshiba TG-01 Windows Mobile-powered phone from two years ago which was also spotted running Windows Phone 7. With its 1GHz processor and 256MB of RAM it seems to cope well with Redmond's new mobile platform. It's really not known why some TG-01s were updated to Windows Phone -- some say people used them internally for testing purposes -- but if you would like to have one for your personal collection, there's one for sale. Follow the source link to place your offer but be cautious as always when purchasing online, especially if you're going to buy a legacy Windows ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 19, 2011 7:38 AMRead OnYou must have read that the Fujitsu-Toshiba IS12T will be allegedly launched in August as the first ever handset to officially run Windows Phone 7 Mango. According to some new reports, Mango might come earlier than you thought! Microsoft, operator KDDI and Fujitsu-Toshiba are reportedly preparing for a July 27 event where the three companies will allegedly be announcing the IS12T Windows Phone. The carrier reportedly even sent out press invitations to the media and journalists for the event where everyone believes the first ever official Windows Phone running Mango will be announced. As ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 22, 2011 4:07 AMRead OnThe Toshiba TG-01, aka Tsunagi, was the world's first smartphone to come out with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. It was running Windows Mobile 6.1 and now, just like the HTC HD2, is (unofficially) running Windows Phone 7. The TG-01 has been spotted running Windows Phone 7 before and its specs definitely allow for the new Redmond platform operation. Its processor is 1GHz and RAM is 256MB which suit the minimum hardware specs Microsoft has set out for OEMs. Hardware features, just like in the case of the HTC HD2 -- which has roughly double the RAM of the TG-01 -- are the same as those on the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 16, 2011 8:21 PMRead OnToshiba is stepping up its game when it comes to mobile displays, announcing a series of Low Temperature Poly-Silicon screens that will be available in pixel densities up to a Retina-Display-trumping 367ppi, which it intends to show off at the Society for Information Display International Symposium this week. These LTPS screens will come in several configurations, but we're most interested in the high-end figures. That means a four-inch screen with a proper 720p, 1280 x 720 resolution capable of showing unscaled HD content. This series of LTPS components will range in size from 3.3 to 4.0 ...
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by Stephen Schenck | March 29, 2011 5:08 PMRead OnWhether you're hooking your HDMI-equipped smartphone up to your TV to watch a video, surf the web, or enjoy a game, the last thing you want happening is your phone's battery dying halfway through. Sure, you could plug in your charger as well as the HDMI cable, but why not simplify things? A new standard called the Mobile High-Definition Link, or MHL, proposes to draw power directly from the TV, as well as giving you some new options to control your phone. MHL uses a connector that's compatible with HDMI, so smartphones designed with MHL in mind could still connect to plain-old HDMI ...
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by Evan Blass | January 17, 2011 11:53 AMRead OnRemember the Toshiba TG03? This rumored third handset in the high-end Windows Mobile 6.5-powered TG-series was first tipped in April 2009 by way of a leaked roadmap and very early render; it was said to be a three-channel surround sound version of the TG02, which itself was a waterproof variant of the original TG01 that never seems to have come to market. Well thanks to the wonderful camera finder feature on Picasa, we learned that the TG03 snapped a mere six pictures which were uploaded to the photo sharing site, spanning the period September 27th (the exact same day it appeared on the ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | December 2, 2010 5:25 AMRead OnThe California Institute of Technology decided to enter the lawsuit game as it brought companies like LG, Pantech, Nokia, Toshiba and STMicro to the Los Angeles court on November 24, claiming the aforementioned companies infringed nine camera related patents with their mobile phones and components. Six years ago, the Pasadena university sued Canon and Nikon among other camera manufacturers for infringing six patents for pixel sensors but the recent lawsuit is referring to sensor technology being used in mobile phones. Caltech is seeking unspecified damages for willful infringement and, ...
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by Evan Blass | November 26, 2010 12:24 PMRead OnToshiba's Windows Mobile-powered TG01, one of the first devices to sport Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon processor, has been gifted with its first working builds of Android. As is usually the case with these early ports, most of the handset's functionality is untapped, because drivers have yet to be written/modified for the phone's particular hardware. Still, users are reporting that several kernels are now bootable thanks to the work of coder Markinus, who managed to get basics like the touchscreen, USB port, and SD slot working; however, with no wireless connectivity yet, the project is still ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | October 19, 2010 5:16 AMRead OnKDDI Corporation and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company have announced yesterday their plans for three Android powered devices to hit the Japanese market after late December 2010, the Regza IS04, IS05 and the SIRIUSα IS06. The Toshiba made Regza IS04 is not only water proof but will feature a 12-megapixel camera to capture images that will be displayed on its 4-inch FWVGA (Full Wide Video Graphics Array, 854x 480) display, with the aid of a 1GHz Snapdragon processor running Android 2.1 Eclair. Such a high megapixel count is not uncommon as we've seen the Altek Leo, shown off at ...
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by Evan Blass | October 14, 2010 8:32 PMRead OnWell here's something you don't see everyday: a Toshiba TG01 -- codenamed Tsunagi, and first announced at Mobile World Congress 2009 -- running Windows Phone 7. The photo was captured on Microsoft's Redmond campus by a TechRadar team taking a tour of the mobile development and testing facilities. The article notes that a number of unreleased devices were spotted from the likes of Acer and Toshiba, meaning that the TG02 or even possibly the TG03 may become a Windows Phone 7 too. Although this model was one of the first to pack Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon processor, it originally shipped with ...
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by Evan Blass | October 5, 2010 7:45 AMRead OnToshiba is showing off an Android-powered smartphone at one of its booths at this year's CEATEC trade show in Japan, although other than the words "Smart 5" written on a piece of tape stuck to the handset, absolutely no information about this mysterious device is available. We say "mysterious," because Toshiba -- and now the combined mobile entity of Fujitsu-Toshiba -- has generally been known as a Windows Phone shop, although its presence in North America has been almost non-existent save for a few imported TG01's. What we do know is that Tosh is dabbling in Android a bit, having shown ...
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by Evan Blass | September 27, 2010 11:50 AMRead OnToshiba's mysterious TG03 smartphone has passed through the Global Certification Forum sporting quad-band GSM and tri-band UMTS (800MHz/850MHz/2100MHz) radios, but since we haven't heard anything about this model in over a year, we really have no idea what form it will take now. First spotted in early 2009, the 03 was supposed to be the third Windows Mobile 6.x handset in the TG line, following the TG01 and TG02. The TG01 has gone on to see some success due to its being early out of the gate with a Snapdragon processor, and although the TG02 has shown up at the FCC and MWC, we're not aware ...
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by Chuong Nguyen | August 30, 2010 12:47 AMRead OnOnce rumored to be called the SmartPad, the Toshiba Android tablet is now speculated to be sporting a new name by the name of Folio, which is reminiscent to the Palm Foleo--a "smart book" that precedes its time as a netbook alternative. The Toshiba Folio will be running Android and is expected to be an iPad competitor with a Tegra 2 processor that's based on a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 chipset running 1 GHz. The display on the Folio is expected to have a resolution of 1024 X 600, and there will be multiple radios, including Bluetooth, 3G, and WiFi b/g/n support. Unlike the current ...
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