TG01 across the UK starting tomorrow, July 10

Orange announced that it will offer the TG01 across the UK starting tomorrow, July 10, for free on select plans. Already on sale with Orange France, the UK version of the handset will be priced from free with a £39.15 ($63) 24-month contract with unlimited on-device browsing.
Orange’s Toshiba TG01 is the first phone using Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and it pairs it with a huge 4.1-inch QVGA touchscreen running an Orange-customized version of Toshiba’s own UI. Underneath there’s Windows Mobile 6.1 together with WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and GPS.Part of Orange’s Signature Series, Toshiba TG01 features quick links and shortcuts to Orange TV & Video, Orange Maps and Orange World.

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TG01 across the UK starting tomorrow, July 10

Orange announced that it will offer the TG01 across the UK starting tomorrow, July 10, for free on select plans. Already on sale with Orange France, the UK version of the handset will be priced from free with a £39.15 ($63) 24-month contract with unlimited on-device browsing.
Orange’s Toshiba TG01 is the first phone using Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and it pairs it with a huge 4.1-inch QVGA touchscreen running an Orange-customized version of Toshiba’s own UI. Underneath there’s Windows Mobile 6.1 together with WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and GPS.Part of Orange’s Signature Series, Toshiba TG01 features quick links and shortcuts to Orange TV & Video, Orange Maps and Orange World.

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Japanese 3G Kindle Hands-on

Toshiba’s Biblio is touted as an e-book reader. Instead of an electronic paper display like ones found in established e-book readers, such as Amazon’s Kindle, the biblio makes do with a traditional 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen with an extra-long 480×960 resolution. The advantage here is that the Biblio can render crisp color images rather than grayscale, but the e-ink display is more battery friendly and is said to cause less eye strain.

It features 7GB of user-accessible storage on board for books, and also has a slide-out dynamic keyboard that can display a numeric pad in the portrait orientation or full QWERTY in landscape. Books and other content can be downloaded thanks to a Wi-Fi connection. Opera Mobile 9.5 browser is preloaded onto the handset, which includes YouTube and Flash support, as well as AJAX scripting. Moreover it has a 5.1Mpix camera module, and an electronic dictionary module.

Sadly, there’s no word on pricing or availability for the device.

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Toshiba TG01 coming to NTT DoCoMo, Telefonica

Two giant carriers Spain’s Telefónica and Japan’s NTT DoCoMo will debut Toshiba TG01 Windows Mobile Phone in Japanese and Spanish market starting June 2009, respectively. The Japanese version, called PRO T-01A, will arrive sometime in June, while Spain will get the TG01 in July. This high-end smartphone offers a huge 4.1-inch WVGA touchscreen display, a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, Windows Mobile 6.1 OS (upgradeable to 6.5), 3.15MP camera with autofocus,a 3D user interface, Wi-Fi, GPS and a microSD card slot. Pricing info is still unknown at the moment. In addition, both companies are also planning to collaborate for developing “possible services and applications for open OS handsets.”

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