Friday, March 02, 2007

Toshiba G500 smartphone

At the 3GSM fair, Toshiba recently released the G500 smartphone, a device targeting the business area of the mobile market. This handset comes in a slider form-factor and has a design strikingly resembling with Nokia’s business class handsets.The G500 is a tri-band GSM phone working on 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz networks and also featuring UMTS 2100 MHz connectivity.

It runs a Windows Mobile 5 operating system and the spec sheet mentions a 2 megapixel digital camera with camcorder support, a second VGA camera for video calls, wireless Bluetooth connectivity, 64 MB built-in memory, a music player with support for MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA audio files, a SIP over Wi-Fi feature, a 2.3 inch 65k TFT LCD QVGA color display with a 320 x 240 pixels resolution, a miniSD memory expansion card slot and probably the one feature that will set every businessman’s pants on fire, fingerprint authentication.

Features
# Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone
# Fingerprint Reader!
# 3G + HSDPA
# WiFi
# 2.2″ screen
# 2 Megapixel Camera
# Slider design
# Toshiba VOIP (pictured below)
# Light Sensor
# 4 hours talk. 150 hours standby
# miniSD expansion

Review By Tradearabia

The Portege G500 is the world’s first Windows Mobile device which slides open and will be available in the second quarter at around 450 euros ($584.6) before local taxes and operator subsidies.

The 3G phone, which can download data at 3.7 megabits per second over the mobile network or via local Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless networks, has fingerprint recognition security built in and the software on the phone can all be controlled from a Toshiba Portege laptop computer.

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