This Toshiba MP3 player phone comes with a light show - Odd Phone Mondays

It's also a flashy MP3 player

Speaking of MP3 files, you could fit up to 40 whole songs in this bad boy's 160 megabytes of storage, maybe, if their bitrate is 128 kbps or lower. This is actually a reasonable amount of storage for a cell phone in 2008.

Of course, Apple's iPod Touch, which came out a year earlier started at 8 gigabytes, and even the first-generation iPhone started at 4 gigabytes of storage, but hey. Those didn't have light-up dual circular button pads.

What else can it do?

Besides looking cool, playing songs and making phone calls, not much else – as it's a fairly traditional dumb phone for its time. Of course you can write SMS messages with those dual sets of T9 buttons, save your contacts, use it as a clock…

Yep, it's basically an MP3 player from January of 2008, but with lights and phone capabilities.

Whatever happened to Toshiba phones?

We mentioned earlier that Toshiba obviously used to make phones, and over 10 years ago, we even reviewed some, like the Toshiba TG01. Toshiba also used to make Android tablets back then, but it's long out of that market also.

Around the time when the first iPhone started making waves, the Japanese company gave Windows Phone a shot with the Toshiba Windows Phone IS12T, but we all know how that turned out. And it seems that now Toshiba is most focused on laptops and other, larger consumer electronics, instead of the highly competitive smartphone market.

But back to the Toshiba G450 – this pill-shaped MP3 player-slash-phone of early 2008. How do you feel about it after seeing it?