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According to the Nikkei Daily, Toshiba is scrapping its plans to mass produce OLED displays. Toshiba and Panasonic joined forces in 2008 to form Toshiba Mobile Display and began laying down plans to add OLED manufacturing to a Toshiba-run production plant in northern Japan. After investing almost 16 billion yen ($191.6 million), those plans were…
Toshiba jumped head first into the mobile phone marketplace when it launched its Windows Mobile-powered TG01 smartphone, one of the first handsets to feature Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor. The TG01 had a short lifespan and was superseded by another Windows Mobile offering, the TG02, early this year. Now in September, we have yet another Toshiba offering, the TG03, spotted…
The Toshiba Folio 100 was recently announced at IFA 2010 in Berlin, and we got some hands-on time with the Europe-only (for now) Android tablet that Toshiba is positioning to take on the Apple iPad. The 10.1-inch tablet boast all kinds of connectivity options (including a USB port capable of charging devices), a full-size SD…
Toshiba officially introduced its Folio 100 tablet at the IFA show in Berlin and the Android tablet is going straight after the Apple iPad and the flood of Android tablets that should soon hit the market. The Toshiba Folio 100 will have a 10.1-inch capacitive multitouch display with a 1024 x 600 resolution. It will…
Toshiba is jumping into the Android tablet market and is looking to wow the world with its froyo-powered offering. According to leaked information obtained by Notebook Italia, the Toshiba tablet is dropping the SmartPad name and is now rumored to be named the Folio 100, a moniker that is not to be confused with the…
Toshiba doesn’t want to be left out of the Android tablet tsunami that should be approaching any time now, and they’re prepping the SmartPad to help buoy the computer maker’s tablet-game. As it stands, we’re just wading in the water with the Streak and that other, unmentionable Android tablet. But, with an Android tablet either…
I have a confession to make. I’m waiting for the Toshiba K01 to be released to buy one. Yap, I want a Windows Mobile phone. There are few reasons for that: I like connecting my Bluetooth keyboard to the phone. HID profile which is required for connecting such input devices is not supported in Android.…
Toshiba unveiled its first Android-powered laptop computer – AC100, which will be available from August 2010. The device looks beautiful and it’s easy to carry around, weighing just 870 grams and measuring 262 x 190 x 14/21 mm. Android 2.1 is running the show, whereas the rest of the specs include 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 250…
The rumors were true – Toshiba and Fujitsu are merging their mobile phone businesses in a move that will create Japan’s second largest handset maker, after Sharp — the new company will hold 18.7% of the market, whereas Sharp has a 26.2% share. In addition to straightening their position on the domestic market, the two…
More consolidation may be happening among the Japanese handset makers. Last year, NEC, Hitachi and Casio agreed to combine their mobile phone businesses, and now the same could happen with Fujitsu and Toshiba. If that happens, the new company would be Japan’s second largest phone maker after Sharp. It is said that Fujitsu and Toshiba…