Toshiba TG02

A leaked roadmap we told you about a few months ago, claimed the TG02 was to be splash resistant. Unfortunately, there is still nothing official on that.

When it comes to the other new Toshiba device, there are lots of questions waiting for an answer. What we can tell you about the Toshiba K01 at this point is it packs a side-slide QWERTY keyboard and a 4.1″ AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of WVGA resolution. Its design has been redone since we last saw it but – what’s more important – size is now different as well. The K01 was said to be 15mm thin but it actually is even slimmer – only 12.9mm. How about that?

Toshiba K01

Sadly, there is still no word on the pricing and availability of either handset.

Everyone knows that the Intel Atom dominates the netbook market, but what about smartphones? As it turns out they have some pretty major plans there too. Their Moorestown system on a chip and Moblin OS will be available in early 2010 and will give them a good starting point for their march towards market domination.

Since our web site is primarily about mobile phones, we should clarify some of those things. First off, “system on a chip” or SoC means that all the chips with various functions normally found on a computer motherboard have been packed into a single chip, saving both space and power – both critical for mobile devices.

The Moorestown platform is a SoC with 45nm Atom CPU, graphics and video encoder/decoder. It will support all the major mobile phone technologies such as 3G, WiMAX, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and even mobile TV.

Intel also announced today that they will license HSPA/3G technology from Nokia and they jointly develop oFono – an open source telephony software solution. While oFono probably won’t develop into a full-blown OS, but will instead be integrated in Moblin and Maemo.

Moblin and Maemo are both Linux variants, the former developed by Intel and tailored specifically for Atom CPUs, the latter developed by Nokia for ARM processors.

It’s not just Nokia – Intel is also working with another big name in the mobile phone world, namely LG. Together LG and Intel are working on a MID that is powered by Moorestown and runs Moblin, plus LG is working with Ericsson to bring 3G capabilities to said MID. The MID will feature voice functionality, so it seems to be a likely candidate to be the mythical “Intel phone”.

Anyway, Intel did a short demo of the new Moblin UI, which Intel says is designed for multitasking. It organizes things into “zones”, which group a program’s windows but also allow you to drag a window from one zone to another.

If this new paradigm proves successful, it will rival the “cards” of WebOS and it can also run GNOME applications (GNOME is one of the two most popular Linux desktop environments), giving it immediate access to plenty of apps get go (think Firefox, etc), not to mention a huge developer base.

Here also are two videos demonstrating the new OS for you to enjoy:

Source: GSMArena.com

pany but the Palm Pre is not the kind to walk around a with “Will work for food” sign on its neck. No sir. It’s looking to elbow its way through a crowd of apples, androids and PocketPCs.

Palm Pre official photos

Are we talking the mother of all comebacks here? We honestly don’t know. But it looks like a debut of the same magnitude as the iPhone OS, Android and Maemo. The Palm Pre seems to have all the things that made the iPhone so special: multi-touch display, an Application Store, fluid and creative UI and a good web browser. But Palm didn’t stop there – the webOS is all about multitasking – to an extent that gives quite a point to those who wouldn’t call the iPhone a proper smartphone.

The webOS and all the touchscreen gadgetry will sure keep us busy enough. It’s the interface and the handling that will earn the Palm Pre its deserved share of admirers. But before we power up this multitasking monster and start navigating its new and unique system, let’s look at the package itself.

Key features:

• 3.1″ 16M-color TFT display of 320 x 480 pixel resolution and excellent sunlight legibility
• 3 megapixel fixed focus camera, LED flash
• Quad-band GSM support
• Tri-band UMTS support with HSDPA
• ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics chip
• 256 MB RAM
• Sliding-out full QWERTY keyboard
• Palm webOS is an innovative multi-touch user interface, heavy on multitasking
• Touch-enabled Gesture Area
• Built-in GPS receiver
• Wi-Fi
• 8 GB of onboard storage
• Accelerometer, proximity sensor
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• Bluetooth with A2DP support
• Application Store for direct apps download and installation
• Office document viewer

Main disadvantages:

• No video calls over the 3G network
• No memory card slot
• Glossy plastics look cheap, love fingerprints
• Camera has no auto focus… nor any settings at all, disappointing image quality
• No video recording unless hacked
• Web browser lacks Flash support, but it’s on its way
• No DivX/XviD video playback support
• No Bluetooth file transfers
• App Catalog available in a limited number of countries
• Small and fiddly QWERTY keyboard keys
• No onscreen keyboard, portrait typing only
• No smart dialing

The specs ring the iPhone bell and you may think the Pre is just another copycat – you’ll be wrong. The Palm Pre is pushing a brand new OS and doesn’t keep a stiff upper lip like some other smartphones – that goes to you Symbian and WinMo.

Palm Pre in our hands

But so much for the resemblance to iPhone. It’s a completely different form factor, there are some novel navigation solutions and there’s a QWERTY keyboard and multi-tasking. The Palm Pre is a fresh and exciting addition to the world of smartphones.

The webOS may have learned a lot from the iPhone OS, but it certainly is trying to do things its own way. The Pre is obviously limited much like the first iPhone and earliest Android handsets.

It’s not the list of do’s and don’ts that makes this phone though. It’s not the capacitive, multi-touch-enabled touchscreen, it’s not the QWERTY keyboard. The Pre hopes to be a symbol of a company’s rebirth and promises an exciting time for touchscreen. And it’s got a darn good reason to be hopeful: the webOS.

We’ll get there but let’s take this one step at a time. The Palm Pre gets unboxed, handled and described right after the jump.

At first, you might think that the Sony Ericsson C901 is just another 5-megapixel cameraphone. Well, that’s not terribly exciting in the current market bustling with 8-megapixel snappers, and probing the boundaries at 12. But you’d be wrong. Be it for the simple reason that the C901 is one of the few handsets out there sporting a Xenon flash. And the one on the C901 is special enough to help it stand above the crowd of cameraphones.

Another thing to note is the eco-friendly GreenHeart version which is interestingly enough, is the only flair or C901 that can currently be found on the Sony Ericsson website.

The C901 GreenHeart is trendy for being partially made of recycled materials (though, technically both devices are identical). You can find out more about it here.

Sony Ericsson C901 official photos

Even after reading those lines many would say there is nothing so special about the C901, particularly as it’s not even selling worldwide! Well, we‘ve been inundated with requests that we review it and there’s nothing we like doing more than pleasing our loyal readers.

Key features

• Xenon and LED flash equipped 5-megapixel cameraphone, videocalling
• Lots of dedicated camera controls
• Active camera cover
• Quad-band GSM support
• 3G with HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
• 2.2″ 256K-color display of QVGA resolution
• Accelerometer for screen auto-rotation
• 110 MB of internal memory, M2 expansion (up to 8GB)
• Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Motion-based games
• Multi-tasking and task manager
• Smart dialing

Main disadvantages

• Video recording maxes out at QVGA@30fps
• No document viewer
• Memory card slot under the battery cover
• Disappointing retail package contents

Sony Ericsson C901 live shots

The Sony Ericsson C901 is a great value in terms of image quality. Looking at the pictures we took with it makes us nostalgic for the time when Sony Ericsson camerphones set the pace and the others just followed.

Aside from the remarkable imaging though, the C901 is just an ordinary feature phone. And that isn’t a bad thing, since it does its job just fine. Very little to complain about, but at the same time not a huge list of features to get excited about either.

Anyhow, it’s about time we opened the box and started the review, don’t you think? Head for the next page to see what we found in the box and what we thought of the Sony Ericsson C901 design and construction.

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