Toshiba TG02 lives, drops by the FCC
By Vlad Savov 
posted January 29th 2010 6:26AM
posted January 29th 2010 6:26AM
posted January 29th 2010 6:26AM
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this should be interesting!
i am listening, pls dont dissapoint me, i have had enough for the week!
Nice form factor!
Looking forward to seeing more of it!
that leaked shot is a bit fuzzy for my taste!
@wesley anthony
*vomits*
blerg...wesley anthony swallows leaked shots?
*vomits again*
and it tasted fuzzy?
*vomits thrice*
The TG01 in the UK is only £150
@thelittleguy
I did look at the TG1 before the HD2 came out. Even though the Toshiba has a smaller screen it is HUGE compaired to the HD2, far too big for a phone. Compaired to the HD2 the TG1 was dead in the water.
@Jimbob The TG01 is not a bad phone, and at £150 (+£10 for the SIM unlock) represents one of the best value smart phones available at the moment. The WVGA screen and Snapdragon processor are not to be sniffed at. As for the HD2, it is a wonderful phone, but at over 3 times the cost unlocked is arguably not over 3 times the phone.
As for the resistive vs. capactive screen debate, well the opinions here are Engadget's. The precision of resistive can't be beat, but neither can the sensitivity of capacitive. At least you have a choice between the two.
@thelittleguy Wait, where can you buy it for £150 in the UK? I know orange done it but they have recently stopped selling it (Which really pe'ed me off !!!)
I really want one!
I just want to say that you guys at Engadget are simple a bad influence. Why would you even say "even worse OS (WinMo 6.1)". Your job is to report on new gadgets and not give your obvious opinions.
Yes we get it that you hate Windows Mobile but this kind of biased commentary just scares newcomers away and just sways them to the iPhone or something similar.
That's why most people here hate Windows Mobile and my guess they haven't even used it but are just saying stuff because you guys fill their heads in with this rubbish.
Sure 6.1 was ugly but productivity wise; it could do more than the iPhone.
Seriously, just stop it.
@Psy
Grammar check
*simply a bad influence
*biased opinions
@Psy
I could not agree more. It's to the point I actually hate coming to the site for information, because it's misinformation, all the time, every time.
Enough of the bias crap, how about keeping your feelings out of the blog entries and just reporting on the devices and let us decide for a change. How frickin novel, isn't it.
@Psy
You forgot the obvious bias against resistive screen technology, even after all the hate they got from pissed off readers because of it.
I remember seeing an Engadget Editor get downranked to oblivion several times because of it, back when you could actually vote on their comments.
The fact that both resistive and capacitive technologies have advantages and disadvantages, and thus should not be classified as better or worse than the other, has been mentioned more than enough times.
"The smart man learns from his mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others."
What do you call someone who learns from neither?
And before someone replies saying it was implied the TG01 sucked not because of a resistive screen, but because of a BAD resistive screen:
"...that phone was hamstrung by a resistive touchscreen..."
No mention of whether the screen was of acceptable quality or not.
It simply says the phone sucked because it had a resistive screen.
Seriously Engadget, you need to do away with all your biased opinions, or at least try to hide them. From what I can see, you're doing a lousy job at both.
@Psy
It would make sense to compare some of these devices with Blackberries or other enterprise products. WM6 is fine in that place.
Consumer side, there needs to be some work,but when you're still in 3rd place and have hired some 1000 + just to work on phone, you know MS is about to jump into the consumer space.
Engadget does have fruit love no doubt. They'll mark down a breadmaker because it wasn't made by Apple. But some of their 'reporting' is funny and decent which is why I check in on a regular basis. It's funny, just like cnet, they couldn't do a proper review of the Zune at any stage. Fair sometimes, but really unbalanced in other areas. oh well.
@Psy Blogs are opinions, and one of hte reasons for engadgets success is surely that htey have opinions, and generate debate. What I do feel is that htey should be clearer between facts and opinions.
I don't happen to agree with all of their opinions, but I still read it. I LIKE resistive. I think WM6 is better than WM2003Se that I have come from. I cannot imagine any life in which I would prefer capacitive, and am really sorry that I bought an HD2. I hate WVGA - widescreen is just daft on a small form factor. I'd go back to my old 3" hx4700 with its wider (albeit shorter) screen if it had a faster processor, GPS and was a camera phone. That was a lovely screen, resistive but sensitive, and was usable with no backlight on a bright day. Internet browsing was easier.
From the first chart HSPA 850/1900 are present and accounted for, so what missing North American 3G frequencies are you looking for? HSPA 850/1900 gets you the whole North American continent and lots of carriers to choose from.
The TG02 will be nice plus XDA already hacked, and cooked up roms for the TG01 Toshiba needs to get rid of the resistive screen though and make a better UI from the start. They were ahead of the curve as far as tech, now when they make the US version for CDMA (which there is no way Qualcomm won't push them to do) they should through in the new dual core Snapdragon and, whola we have a beast.
If this has a capacitive screen and runs Android then I'd consider it my next phone.
Almost bought a Tg01 for the £160 last month.
isnt this phone water proof?
No arrow to the CE mark on that drawing (the the CE mark means it's approved for european sale for those that don't know)
But since it's already sold in the EU I guess that's obvious?
Anybody know what the circled exclamation mark indicates? When I search on google I get a lot of 'device manager error' stories and that on some cars it means the handbrake is on, so no help there.