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Toshiba TG01 touchscreen phone video, review give a first peek

The multimedia phone has a 4.1-inch, high-resolution touchscreen and an innovative user interface. Take a look.

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Mobile | by Samuel Axon | Tue Feb 3, 2009 7:52PM | 0 comments

Earlier today Toshiba announced its impressive TG01 cell phone. With a 1 GHz processor, it's almost as fast as a netbook, so your web browsing and other applications (it runs Windows Mobile 6.1, so anything available for that phone platform will work) should operate very quickly on it. It's also got a 3.2-megapixel camera and a 4.1-inch, DVD-quality touchscreen.

It sounds like someone set out to cover every base the iPhone fails to — for example, the TG01 supports Adobe Flash for graphics-intensive websites, a feature iPhone owners are wishing for daily — but it has weaknesses of its own. Its touchscreen is not multi-touch, so the experience might be a bit less zippy than that of the iPhone.

The interface is interesting even without that feature, though, as a video over at SlashGear demonstrates. Watch it below to see the phone's unusual "three column" interface concept in action. There's also an early review at Pocket-lint.

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external link Toshiba TG01 Video Demos: GUI, gaming &… [SlashGear]
external link YouTube - Toshiba TG01 - 3D GUI demo [youtube.com]
external link Toshiba TG01 GUI, video playback demoed on… [Engadget]
external link REVIEW: Toshiba TG01 mobile phone - First… [Pocket-lint.co.uk]

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