Toshiba TG01 Touchscreen Mobile Phone is currently making headlines in most of the mobile phone news sites and magazines. Toshiba recently announced this mobile phone in London and will also flaunt it in the forthcoming Mobile World Congress to be held in Barcelona. This mobile phone is Toshiba's first step into the smartphone world.
This super-slim phone has a 4.1” QVGA touchscreen, which has been equipped with the same technologies that have been working magic for Toshiba's TV screens. The entire handset is 9.9mm thick. This mobile phone also features the new Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, which has a clock speed of 1GHz, and is claimed to be the fastest in the market today. Input to the phone can be given via the virtual track-pad displayed on the screen. The “G-sensor” of this phone, performs the functionality of an accelerometer. AGPS or GPS, Wi-Fi and HSDPA 3G are expected to be supported by this cell phone. The internal memory of 512MB can be extended up to 32GB with a microSD card. DivX is also supposed to be supported. This smartphone is Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 compatible. Full flash support is provided too for enabling watching of all kinds of videos from the Internet. This phone is also expected to feature the 'shake the phone' to answer a call and hang up as well. Thus, the ultra-slick, attractive, Toshiba TG01 Windows Smartphone seems to be all ready to set the market stage on fire, giving some sleepless nights to the other smartphone manufacturers in the community.
Update:- The Toshiba TG01 Mobile Phone is available for sale for a £39.15 a month, 2 year contract, from Orange from 10 July 2009. An upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 OS is also expected when the OS gets released by Microsoft.
