The MWC 2008 - Live Report

Toshiba, not a huge name in the mobile phone business, is defiantly making is definitely trying to make a point with the recent introduction of four new devices. Looking at their product like, a definite trend upwards in the number of devices launched is noticed – just one device in our database in 2006, two devices in 2007 and now four. Three of those were already introducing a month ago in Milan, Italy, so the only really new product here is the G810. As we have not yet fully covered their 2008 line, we’ll do it here.

Moving down the line, G710 entry level is Windows Mobile Standard with EDGE data only. By its design very much resembles Motorola Q9h with the trackball from HTC 3300 Artemis. Being an entry level, everything else is about standard – 2 mega pixel camera and 2.4 inch QVGA display.

The G810 is again the only true new product here at the show. Nothing exciting here as well – Windows Mobile Professional device, running on MSM7200 chipset. Because of this, support for tri-band UMTS is present, in addition the GPS functionality. We guess Toshiba has not heard that everyone is now in the interface customization business!



The G910 is something feature side-opening clamshell design, with overall not very pocktable size. The front features a small OLED display with just the very basic information.  Opening it reveals the full QWERTY keyboard. Overall, nothing spectacular is you do not count the VGA display. The rest of the specs sheet and features are trivial and even outdates – only single band 3G, 2.0 mega pixel camera and GPS. ETEN managed to squeeze a lot better specs in a lot slimmer body!



To be honest, the only device that caught our attention was the G450. It actually is a mixture of phone, music player and model in unusual design. Its phone functionality is very limited with extremely hard to use navigation. This is quite understandable as its primary role is just basic voice communication. Its usage as music player is again limited, as the on-board memory is only 160 MB and it lacks any type of memory expansion slots.