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Toshiba will ready its tablets late in 2010

Published on: 14th March, 2010

Jeff Barney, Toshiba’s US notebook lead, has said the company would develop its own tablets. He said a line of devices is scheduled for late this year or early in 2011. Details of how the devices would look like were not revealed. Jeff Barney said that Toshiba would have to move very fast to get [...]

Portégé M780 and Satellite Pro U500 brought to the United States by Toshiba

Published on: 25th February, 2010

The Portégé M780 tablet notebook presented earlier this year by Toshiba is now selling in the United States. Interesting details previously unknown are revealed by the product page, such as the fact that even if being dropped from up to three feet its hard drive does not suffer permanent damage. The 12.1-inch PC is equipped [...]

Two new phones from Toshiba, at MWC

Published on: 18th February, 2010

On February 15, 2010, at MWC, Toshiba has launched two new phones. This time, the company has been focusing on software, not on hardware. The TG02, a direct sequel to the TG01, is one of the company’s first handsets to use capacitive touch. The device runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 and may get the 6.5.3 [...]

Sattellite E205 notebooks with Wireless Display technology from Toshiba

Published on: 25th January, 2010

Toshiba’s Satellite E205 notebooks using Wireless Display technology from Intel have begun to ship. The system, first presented at CES, uses Intel’s latest chipset and allows viewing the notebook display on an HDTV with HDMI or Composite inputs. There is a small box connecting directly to the TV set, but no external adapter is needed [...]

Netbook with 11-hour battery life – the NB305 from Toshiba

Published on: 10th January, 2010

The third generation netbook was confirmed by Toshiba with an official event. Both the NB300 and the NB305 sport the Pine Trail-based 1.66GHz Atom from Intel and provide an extension of their battery life from nine hours to eleven hours. Although they have a longer life, the six-cell batteries did not increase either the size [...]

Pine Trail and 3G in the new Toshiba NB305

Published on: 26th December, 2009

According to FCC, Toshiba will launch their third generation of notebooks with HSPA and dual-mode 3G for EVDO. The NB300 and NB30 will incorporate a Gobi 3G chip that will give users access on mobile phone networks like Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. We expected that in the future at least one of the carriers will [...]

The 64GB NAND flash memory from Toshiba

Published on: 16th December, 2009

Toshiba has recently presented a new 64GB NAND flash memory module that is believed to be the highest capacity in the industry. It combines sixteen 32Gbit chips and a dedicated controller while using Toshiba’s 32nm technology for their manufacturing. The chip thickness is just 30 micrometers thanks to chip thinning and layering methods.
These new modules [...]

ASUS on top, Hewlett Packard the worst according to notebook reliability study

Published on: 27th November, 2009

SquareTrade published a new study revealing that smaller notebook manufacturers are often more reliable than their larger competitors. For example, ASUS, ranked in the top nine, has the lowest breakdown rate with under 10 percent of notebooks failing over the past two years. At the same time, Toshiba, Sony and Apple as well have above-average [...]

ASUS supposed to acquire Toshiba’s notebook business

Published on: 27th November, 2009

ASUS is expected to reach the top of the netbook market share after acquiring the business of one of its main competitors, Toshiba, according to the company’s chairman, Jonney Shih. ASUS could reach the top three notebook manufacturers by 2011 after completing this transaction. As nothing has been finalized by now, questions remain on how [...]

Toshiba TG01 to reach Verizon’s network

Published on: 20th November, 2009

An image showing a Cellebrite device screen displaying a handset called TG01CV is an indication that the 1GHz Qualcomm-powered Toshiba TG01 smartphone could come soon into Verizon’s network. The Cellebrite device is used to perform transfers of database content between handsets and implies that Verizon gets ready with its system to be able to accept [...]

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