Toshiba's G900 and E01 with Windows Mobile 6

Toshiba's new duo may not steal the show together, but the G900 is officially ready to help redefine high-end smartphone devices. The behemoth features, as we mentioned an utterly unreal 3-inch WVGA (800 x 480) display, rear biometric scanner, 2 megapixel rear camera, front-facing video conferencing camera, 64MB of internal memory, miniSD expansion, tri-band HSDPA (yes!), 802.11b/g, Bluetooth, USB, video calling, and USB On-The-Go. The E01 is far more lower end, but still manages HSDPA, a 65k color display, A2DP Bluetooth, and that same 2 megapixel camera. We're still missing out on pricing and launch details, but for now you can still check out the gallery below for more pics, including a couple side-by-sides.

Toshiba WM6 devices

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 12:19PM]

Unless HTC has something with hi-res up their sleeve, this will be my next phone...

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 2:16PM]

With you on that. I've been happy with my 8125 and 8525, but I could switch. This is a nice looking phone and hopefully it won't be subject to all the quarky 8525 bugs (even though some are WM5 related).

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 11:36AM]

OMG, my heart just skipped a beat. This is it. It's finally been made. The perfect phone. This is literally all I ever wanted in a mobile device. I think I'm in love....

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 12:22PM]

I guess the question for me is whether the E90 has tri-band HSDPA...and shouldn't we want quad-band (EDGE and the three HSDPA bands) plus is it quad-band GSM???

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 11:50AM]

I'm not really all that surprised... Toshiba has always managed to make top-of-the-line mobile devices. I have one of their e755 PocketPC's and back in the day it was one of the slimmest, best built, and full featured PocketPC around. This phone looks awesome.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 12:04PM]

Only 64MB? WTF?

[CowboyUGA Posted Feb 12th 2007 12:04PM]

I just got a pricing update on the phone. The numbers are subject to change, but it's currently slated as follows:

USA: First born son
Canada: First born son, and arm, and a leg

That conversion rate is a killer.

[Toddard Posted Feb 12th 2007 12:08PM]

Hmmm... A _rear_ biometric scanner. I think I prefer the _finger_ biometric scanners myself.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2007 1:02PM]

Now thats sexy!

[DugB Posted Feb 12th 2007 12:58PM]

wish it had GPS...the more I use my separate Bluetooth GPS unit with my PPC-6700 the more I wish it was built-in.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 1:35PM]

i can't decide if i'd rather have a Toshiba with WVGA or HTC with GPS! ideally, i'd like both!

[ayle Posted Feb 12th 2007 12:28PM]

Is 64mo of memory the actual amount of rom or its just the ram? Because a know that the xda flame has 128mo of ram...

[dhaupert Posted Feb 12th 2007 1:47PM]

This sounds as close to perfect a phone as I've seen. Like having an OQO Model 2 but _hopefully_ at a much cheaper price. And from what Engadget and other sites have shown about Win Mobile 6 recently it really is actually something to get excited about- native Office files support, HTML email support, looks like album covers in the new media player. I think there is a real great opportunity for this phone if they can keep the price under 600 bucks.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 2:35PM]

OK why would anyone buy a Blackberry when all these great mobile 6 devices are out?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 1:47PM]

Getting close to the perfect phone. Check off a couple more items from the list:

Current elements for my ultimate phone:
- Quad-Band GSM/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA
- 802.11a/b/g/n
- Bluetooth with A2DP
- NFC (near field communications)
- IR (preferably consumer IR)
- GPS Receiver (SiRF III chipset)
- 2 Cameras (one on front to allow video calls, one on back to take photos) w/ flash
- MP3 player
- Good voice recognition software for hands-free dialing
- SMS/MMS
- QWERTY keyboard -- flat (like treo), slider or flip
after using the 8125, I prefer the Treo for one-handed use; However, I don't think I can expect a VGA screen with a treo like keyboard so a slider seems to be the trade-off
- screen resolution preferably 640 x 480
- OS: Windows or Linux
- biometric sign-on (so I don't have to type in my password all the time)
- all-day battery with the GPS

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 2:23PM]

Tell me why I would want an iPhone again?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 2:30PM]

"Tell me why I would want an iPhone again?"

Cuz Mr. Jobs said so, and he's right! iPhone is going to be the next phone for a lot of us!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 2:36PM]

Links to the new Toshiba Beast. Its huge! They have pics side by side with TyTn.

http://www.phonedaily.com/news/?news_id=5404

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2007 6:28PM]

Huge is an understatement - it seems you'll need a backpack for this device. It looked good right up until I saw the size. Oh, and the lack of GPS on the device. The new glofish device http://msmobiles.com/news.php/6175.html looks rather nice.

[unzarjones Posted Apr 13th 2007 12:24AM]

May have to wait for this instead of the HTC Advantage. Won't look so dorky holding it up to my ear. Thank God most of my friends are machines.