Anyone with a weak stomach, look away now: Toshiba, never afraid of the bizarre, have taken insane nomenclature and frankly ridiculous purchasing schemes to their illogical conclusion with the FanFun 815T "Cosmic Shiner" on SoftBank.  Want to buy this limited edition, diamond studded clamshell?  Well, you'll have to pick up the April issue of Seven Hills magazine, snip out the unique ID codes ... continued »

If you think the two cellphones in the picture below look similar, imagine how Fujitsu feel: they developed the handset on the left, the Foma Rakuraku Phone III, for NTT DoCoMo, and then Toshiba introduced the handset on the right, the Kandan Keitai 821T, for Softbank.  Now Fujitsu and their carrier chum are suing Toshiba, seeking a temporary injunction on sales of ... continued »

Out of Toshiba's G-Series Portégé cellphones, the most unusual was the tri-circular G450; intended to only do duty as an occasional handset, its primary purpose was to provide UMTS/HSDPA cellular broadband to a laptop via its built-in USB connectivity.  Crave UK have been playing with one and, for £100 ($194), come away surprisingly impressed.  While standard phone functions are made ... continued »

Toshiba has added a new mobile to its G-series line. It’s called the Toshiba Portege G810 and it’s a WinMo smartphone that seems to be headed to Europe only, and not even then until the second quarter. continued »

The ASUS M930, not to be mistaken for Toshiba Portege G910 device was caught in the wild by the staffers at TamsWMS. Based on his feedbacks, I can almost tell you that the device is sadly unimpressive. For starters, pricing at 500 to 600 EURO, you’d expect the M930 to be nothing but a bundle of love and ... continued »

I may think so, while others I’ve spoken to about the Portege G910 really loves it, or I should say craves for it. This bad boy packs major features, but it’s fairly obsessed. I think that in this day an age, folks are slimming down. continued »

Toshiba has unveiled three new cellphones in its Portégé range, the G450 (pictured here), the G710 and the G910 (both pictured after the cut), the latter two of which are fairly sensible smartphones while the former is a stick of bizarre split-keypad madness.  In effect a USB UMTS/HSDPA modem that can also double up as an occasional cellphone, it has an OLED screen, ... continued »