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Toshiba Portégé G900 unboxed and compared

July 5th, 2007

Last week Toshiba finally launched the Toshiba Portégé G900, which is the bigger brother of the Portégé G500. This is a device we have been looking forward to since we first saw the specs back in February. Of particular interest is that hi-res 800 x 480 3" display and the fast 520MHz CPU!

Just today we managed to get our hands on a review unit and will writing that up over the next week. So as has now become standard, we'll leave you with an unboxing video. Please feel free to ask us questions about the device and we'll either answer them here or work them in to the final review!

EDIT: You can also see some screen grabs HERE. Plus the second video is now LIVE.

Toshiba G900 Specification:

Windows Mobile 6 Professional

520MHz 32bit Intel XScale CPU

128Mb RAM / 128Mb ROM

3" 800 x 480 LCD touchscreen

GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS2100

CSD, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA

Slide-out QWERTY-type keyboard, 45 keys

MiniSD memory slot

Bluetooth 2.0

USB 1.1 host/client

WiFi: 802.11b, 802.11e

1.9 megapixel camera

Biometric security

61 x 119 x 21.5mm

198 grams

The Toshiba Portégé G900 is available now and in stock at Clove Technology and at £339 (£398.32 inc VAT) we're pretty sure this is one of the cheapest on the web!

Posted by: Matt

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Comment from: Clayton [Visitor]

Hey there!

I'm really curious about how fast this device can be with its speedy CPU. What about the video performance (e.g. YouTube browsing)? Is there a way to compare its size with another devices, like some of the HTC slide models and;or Nokia N800. I would love to see some pics with these devices side-by-side!

Thanks for any info about it and best regards!!!

Clayton

Permalink 06/07/07 @ 19:01

Comment from: Matt [Member]

· www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs

Keep your eyes on the site for more on this device over the next few days!

Matt

Permalink 06/07/07 @ 19:18

Comment from: hansw [Visitor]

A question about the screen:
Is it Transreflective or can you see the screen in DIRECT sunshine ?

Permalink 26/07/07 @ 12:03

Comment from: SPP [Visitor]

Don't buy this phone. I've used three of them and can say with confidence that the phone is severely flawed. The phone crashes frequently if you ask it to do anything remotely challenging. The software running the phone isn't up to the task, everything runs slowly, it turns itself off constantly and is extreamly non-intuitive to find your way around. The only thing this phone has going for it is the quality of the screen. The rest of the phone feels heavy, cheap and plasticy. Did I mention it can't play videos smoothly regardless of file size? The three phones I've tried have all been sent directly from Toshiba for me to load a video on, but no matter the file size, it won't play anything sloothly, even videos that it's little brother the G500 can play.

Permalink 22/08/07 @ 14:21

Comment from: Firas Kassem [Visitor] · http://firask.net

Don't buy this phone, I can't believe It's coming from Toshiba !!,
The battery is too bad, the phone sometimes never come from standby mode (40%), too slow , the front camera doesn't correctly ,and and ..

I'm so sad with it :(

Permalink 31/10/07 @ 18:12

Comment from: Ashley [Visitor] · http://www.ashleygriffin.co.uk

The screen fix patch isnt on the link you have sent.... have Toshiba withdrawn the phone? it says its "new" and being 6 months old isnt really "new" is it????

Many Thanks
Ashley

Permalink 02/01/08 @ 01:45

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