It’s been a week of mobile device reviews, along with the Bluetooth accessories that go with them, here at SlashGear, with Samsung’s Tocco Ultra S8300 and Instinct S30 showing up for playtime. We also gave our opinion on the big news in Bluetooth headsets, in the shape of the Plantronics Voyager Pro and the Aliph Jawbone PRIME. Finally, HTC’s Touch Diamond2 flaunted itself in a video unboxing, while the Mophie Juice Pack Air for the iPhone 3G got its review.
Toshiba UK have announced the Mini NB200, the European version of the Toshiba Dynabook UX 10.1-inch netbook revealed in Japan earlier this week. As with the UX, the Toshiba Mini NB200 has a choice of 1.6GHz N270 or 1.66GHz N280 Intel Atom processors, paired with 945GSE graphics and up to nine hours runtime from the optional 9-cell battery.
Images of some of the handsets included in Toshiba’s leaked product roadmap have emerged, illustrating the successor devices to the Toshiba TG01 smartphone. Pictured here is the Toshiba TG02, which is believed to add IPX4 water-resistance and Windows Mobile 6.5; after the cut is the Toshiba TG03.
Despite the warm reception to Toshiba’s TG01 smartphone, other devices pledging to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset are still thin on the ground. That’s all set to change in the second half of 2009, though, according to the latest leaks from Taiwan, which suggest HTC is among manufacturers intending to use the Snapdragon platform.
Toshiba announced a brand new netbook today called the Dynabook UX. This 10.1-inch model features an LED-backlit screen with a 1,024 x 600 resolution, which interestingly enough is the exact same rez as the previous 8.9-inch model.
If this is authentic, Toshiba has some interesting products lined up through 2010. Techblog.gr leaked a powerpoint slide of Toshiba’s product roadmap featuring a few handheld computers featuring the Qualcomm SnapDragon platform. There were prototypes first demoed at CES earlier this year, and from the looks of it, those prototypes are ending up as real products.
Toshiba added to their S300 line today with their Satellite Pro S300-EZ2521. It’s a perfectly decent laptop, but doesn’t fall squarely in that much-talked about “high-end” category or much-revered “low cost but decent specs” category. Rather, it’s just somewhere in the middle.
Pet lovers are always on the lookout for something new and exciting to entertain their furry friends with. And it seems like Toshiba is really stepping up to the plate here with their PetBook K9, which purports to be the first laptop for dogs.
It seems Toshiba no longer wants to be in business with Panasonic. At least, that’s what the company’s latest effort to buy Panasonic’s stake in a LCD joint venture appears to allude to.
Toshiba followed the Windows Mobile crowd with their TG01, giving the super-skinny smartphone a custom GUI that sits on top of the Microsoft OS. The Stripes GUI hasn’t met with quite the degree of welcome that Toshiba maybe expected, however; we’d much rather have this 3D UI that Qualcomm commissioned and was demonstrating back in February.
Video demo after the cut
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