New Life for Windows Mobile : Toshiba G01: First 1GHz Snapdragon phone

By Mary Branscombe , published on February 16, 2009 at 10:00 AM
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Toshiba’s new Windows Mobile handset has the largest screen you can get on a smartphone, 4.1 inches, with 800x480 resolution plus the first Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor to make it into a finalized phone.  Even though it has Windows Mobile 6.1 at launch it comes with Internet Explorer Mobile 6 for full Flash-enabled browsing (plus there’s a media player that supports DivX and YouTube). Toshiba has its own customizable UI on top of Windows Mobile. The TG01 has the same kind of controls you’d get on a Regza TV: gamma correction and a backlight control so you can adjust the brightness and color of the screen - just what you want if you're going to watch a lot of video on this superb display.

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tntom 02/17/2009 4:17 AM
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Windows Phone why not just WinPhone

Igot1forya 02/18/2009 9:06 PM
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I say call it the "Phone Operating System" or POS for short... and everyone will ask "Is your phone a POS?" and companies will put labels on thier next gen phones saying "POS-Ready"!

hellwig 02/19/2009 11:13 PM
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Hmm.. so I have to hold the TG01 phone perfectly straight to watch movies on it, what a pain.

I remember being at Microsoft and going to a presentation of their smartphone OS (can't recall which version). They had big hopes for the market, but this was 2004. I had figured that marked had all but dried up on them, but this article claims they're the number #1 smart phone OS. When did that happen? Why don't I see more Windows phone advertisements? Seems very contrary to MS's whole philosophy.

redhat 04/17/2009 6:23 AM
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I still do not know very clear what's windows mobile!

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