Toshiba Portégé G500 Review

Let’s get aquainted with the smartphone from Toshiba – Toshiba Portégé G500.

Ideal for business and pleasure, the Portégé G500 from Toshiba gives you the best of both worlds. This quality and compact slider phone uses fingerprint technology to protect the data stored on the handset. Combining phone, email, web and an MP3 player on a Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, the G500 helps you to stay in touch whilst on the go.

You’ll find a 2mp camera and secondary camera for video telephony in Toshiba. 64MB of internal memory and support for miniSD card also available.
The Portégé G500 will be available in retail very soon, by the end of April or beginning or May for around £300 / €500.

Features:

• Dimensions (mm): 96 x 49 x 22.9
• Weight: 135g
• Band: 2100 for HSDPA category 6 900/1800/1900 for GSM/EDGE
• GPRS: Class 10
• Main Display: 65K (WM5.0) colours, TFT, 2.3” QVGA
• Camera: 2 mega pixel, digital zoom, VGA sub camera for video telephony
• Video: H.263/MPEG4, WMV
• Sound: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMRNB
• Speakers: 1 earpiece for voice, 1 speaker for ringer, speakerphone and music
• Browser: WAP 2.0, XHTML, HTML 4.01 ECMAScript/Opera 8.6
• Memory: 64MB internal
• Support up to 2GB miniSD card
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, E-mail (Outlook) MSN messenger
• Connectivity: Bluetooth™ V2.0 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
USB 1.1 Client (mini-USB connector)
WiFi (802.11b/g)
• Java: MIDP2.0, JTWI, JSR 135/75
• PIM/DRM: Mobile Outlook (Addressbook, Calendar)
ActiveSync (Addressbook, Calendar, mail)
OMA DRM 1.0/2.0
• Battery: Standby time - up to 290 hours (3G), 250 hours (GSM)
Talk time - up to 140 mins (3G), 280 mins (GSM)

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You can compare the G500 from Toshiba with the G900 one.

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