Toshiba TS921 3G Phone Review

Toshiba TS9213G.co.uk has a look at the TS921 from Toshiba, a 3G phone with an interesting flip and spin clamshell design.

While it’s just shy of two megapixels, the resultant snaps rank alongside the Sharp 902 and Sony Ericsson K750 two-megapixel camera phones. The pictures below are brimming with colour and detail – good enough to print without any loss of quality. While impressive on paper, if pushed to the max, its 20x digital zoom can give pixelated images, so seems a bit worthless. However, there is a macro setting to help focus on those detailed close-ups.

Admittedly, the TS921’s uncompromising physique might dissuade some people, and it doesn’t help the 3G cause. However, we can’t deny its 3G performance won us over, and Toshiba should be more than pleased with its debut UK mobile handset.

It should be interesting to see where Toshiba goes from here as this review makes it sound like they have the phone to have, except for the size.

November 23rd, 2005 Posted by David in Reviews, Toshiba at 5:54 pm Comment Now! »

Fuel Cell Mobile Phones

Being able to talk almost all day on your cell phone and not using a normal battery, both sound pretty cool to me. Well, with the fuel cells that Toshiba and Hitachi are working on, it seems that is going to quickly become a reality.

Fuel Cell Cell Phones

Engadget with the details:

It looks like things are coming along nicely, as KDDI has announced prototypes of the fuel cell versions of the “A5509T” and “W32H” handsets. It’s also nice to see that the companies took two different approaches: Toshiba went for lifetime through a hybrid system, bringing the A5509T’s talk time to nearly 8 hours or idle time to, oh, only 28 freaking days.

October 4th, 2005 Posted by David in News, Toshiba at 9:18 am Comment Now! »

Toshiba 803

Toshiba 803The Toshiba 803 features an external music player, allowing users easy access to music on the move. The external 1.3inch screen displays artist names, song length and other details so users can find and play music at a glance, as well as scrolling through tracks and saving files in playlists.

The handset is capable of playing music while users surf the net or perform other functions which means they can enjoy the complete functionality of the phone, without compromise.

“The Toshiba 803 gives users their music player and mobile phone in one device,” said Nick Tanigawa, General Manager of Toshiba’s Mobile Communications Division. “Our aim has been to create a product that works as well as a music device as it does as a mobile phone.”

The slick, clamshell handset also features a 2.2 megapixel camera, stereo twin speakers and BluetoothTM. It has a standby time of up to 270 hours and talk time of up to 320 minutes*.

The Toshiba 803 builds on the recent launch of Toshiba’s TS 921, its first ever 3G mobile phone for Europe, and the TS 10 2.5G fashion phone.

The Toshiba 803 is exclusively available on the Vodafone network.

September 30th, 2005 Posted by David in Toshiba at 8:36 am 1 Comment »

Toshiba TS 921

Toshiba TS 921Trusted Reviews puts the Toshiba TS 921 through its paces, churning out a four page overview of the phone.

Toshiba certainly isn’t the first name that springs to mind when it comes to mobile phones. But as one of those Japanese companies that seems to make almost everything it’s no surprise to find that it has turned its hand to 3G with the release of the TS 921, available exclusively on Vodafone.

The buttons on the keypad make good use of the large area by being well spaced and have a good feel to them. The screen is large at 2.5in and has an impressive resolution of 240 x 320. The phones party trick though is that the whole screen can be swivelled round and laid flat against the keyboard. The main beneficiary of this is that it’s possible to hold the phone as you would a camera to take snaps and video with the 1.92Megapixel CCD.

Battery life is not that great. Considering the size I was hoping for a decent staying power but I found myself disappointed. After a full charge the phone remained with full bars for a long time up until the point that I started actually using it. After a few video downloads and calls the bars would plummet quickly. This means I didn’t feel I could rely on the phone to even get me though the day.

Read the full review at Trusted Reviews

September 22nd, 2005 Posted by David in Toshiba at 12:44 pm Comment Now! »

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