Toshiba TG01 hands-on

February 10, 2009 | By Surur

The Stuff team was offered an exclusive hands-on with the Toshiba TG01. They will be posting a video of their exprience a bit later, but has left us with their impressions so far:

Well, it’s incredibly thin, looking a little like an iPhone that’s been given the rolling pin treatment (see comparison shots below). As you can see above, there’ll also be two colours available come June, and Toshiba has given the TG01 its own colourful skin to smooth over Windows Mobile’s rough edges.

This works quite nicely in practice – slide your finger across the three panels and they spin round to reveal more options. Each ‘strip’ also reveals your last ten actions in that area giving you quick access to, for example, your last ten phone calls.

That Snapdragon processor ensured a quick boot-up time (significantly faster than the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1), and the pre-loaded Fast and the Furious video looked crisp and ran smoothly. With CorePlayer on board, it supports plenty of formats including DivX too.

They also note the device will be bundled with an 8GB microSD card and possibly with CoPilot GPS navigation software.

See more of Stuff’s hands-on pictures here.

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

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nuke1

FIRST!!!1!1

Kidding, kidding. Should be interesting to see the Snapdragon processor in practicality. Operating at what seems to be less than 1Ghz, seems to give less than optimal performance on the homescreen ‘strips’. Video playing seemed OK-ish. It’s difficult to tell if there is a GPU in there at all! The game (I think it was Asphalt) didn’t seem awfully smooth. Hmmm.

Why couldn’t NV make Tegra an all-in-chip? Dammit.

Wishmaster

I hope that we’ll see something similar from HTC at MWC but with HDMI, slideout keyboard and full support of GPU and QTv and of course WM 6.5
That would be a dream device

pissed off

Like the Touch HD, I’m boycotting news of this too when I hear confirmation that it’s not destined for the U.S.

grrr.
grrr.
aleis

too wide.
i was there at first.
but…i think of hand cramps.
msm

I just cannot understand the logic of going ever faster, draining the battery life, and yet the exisitng Qualcomm 528MHz is not even fully exploited yet. The graphics is still not fully enabled to allow for smooth 3D. It’s like buying and ever faster car but continue driving it witha speed limit of 50mph. What a sad joke!
http://www.pkrgame.com Justin Abraham

I know i have an HTC Diamond and not satisfied with the speed. It has a 528 Mhz proccessor and its slower than my old htc touch on certain applications. Touchflo 3d is nice though. This toshiba looks sweet.
benji

Wish the OS would hurry and catch up with the hardware
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SnapTheDragonsNeck

HTC ffs spend some damn money on drivers!
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