Friday, August 22, 2008
Toshiba G810 Mini Product Review
Toshiba isn’t a big name for mobiles. However, its experience in producing PDA and its cooperation with Spb Software House have given me the confidence in giving it a try.
The package includes a Toshiba G810 phone, a battery, a charger, a stereo hand-free, a USB cable, a CD-ROM and a user’s guide.
G810 comes with a very elegant design. The front has a gloss black finish, but it does not collect fingerprints like other glossy-surface phones. The screen is 2.8” with QVGA resolution. It performs as good when it’s outdoors. The SPB flush screen design is very finger-friendly, which call 'thumb touch' icons, the desktop icons is big enough to push accurately with your big, fat thumbs even without the stylus. It is 14mm thin and weighs only 120g. That makes it very portable.
The blue illuminated D-pad and six function buttons (the home button, the Windows Start menu button, two softkeys and the phone send and end buttons) are all flush. They look cool but not very practical. You will easily miss-press when you finger moves a little too quickly or when you are not looking at it cause you can’t “feel” the button.
The camera at the back comes is 3.0 mega-pixel with AF and LED Flash. Picture quality is generally good except in photo conditions, which need a pair of steady hands like low-lit environment. A self-portrait mirror is placed beside the lens, which is perfect for self-shooters.
The back is covered with a rubbery plastic material, which offers a good grip but looks a little cheap. On the left side, we have a volume up/down button, on/off switch, a soft-reset hole, and a microSD slot while on the right side we have the stylus doubles as the trim.
G810 has 256 megs of flash ROM and 128 megs of ROM, with the help of microSD, you can upgrade the storage to 4G. The microSD slot is exposed, so I feels like I am forced to have an SD card there!
G810 on a Qualcomm MSM7200 CPU clocked at 400MHz, which is pretty powerful.
G810 supports HSDPA connection and similar to most of its HSDPA counterparts, it has A-GPS function.
G810 runs on the latest Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. It means that you can get a few new features like the full page zooming and the cleaner home screen in the Internet Explorer. To me, the improvements are not really that significant.
To conclude, G810 has got everything has got all the hip features that a PDA phone should have, A-GPS, HSDPA connection, Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, FM radio, but it’s not perfect. (Have we got a perfect one yet?) QVGA resolution is bit low. Battery life is short. Camera’s capture time and video quality is yet to improve. But all in all, it can still gain Toshiba a pretty good foothold in the market I think!
The pictures in the reviews are taken by Ricoh GX200 12MP Digital Camera.
The package includes a Toshiba G810 phone, a battery, a charger, a stereo hand-free, a USB cable, a CD-ROM and a user’s guide.
G810 comes with a very elegant design. The front has a gloss black finish, but it does not collect fingerprints like other glossy-surface phones. The screen is 2.8” with QVGA resolution. It performs as good when it’s outdoors. The SPB flush screen design is very finger-friendly, which call 'thumb touch' icons, the desktop icons is big enough to push accurately with your big, fat thumbs even without the stylus. It is 14mm thin and weighs only 120g. That makes it very portable.
The blue illuminated D-pad and six function buttons (the home button, the Windows Start menu button, two softkeys and the phone send and end buttons) are all flush. They look cool but not very practical. You will easily miss-press when you finger moves a little too quickly or when you are not looking at it cause you can’t “feel” the button.
The camera at the back comes is 3.0 mega-pixel with AF and LED Flash. Picture quality is generally good except in photo conditions, which need a pair of steady hands like low-lit environment. A self-portrait mirror is placed beside the lens, which is perfect for self-shooters.
The back is covered with a rubbery plastic material, which offers a good grip but looks a little cheap. On the left side, we have a volume up/down button, on/off switch, a soft-reset hole, and a microSD slot while on the right side we have the stylus doubles as the trim.
G810 has 256 megs of flash ROM and 128 megs of ROM, with the help of microSD, you can upgrade the storage to 4G. The microSD slot is exposed, so I feels like I am forced to have an SD card there!
G810 on a Qualcomm MSM7200 CPU clocked at 400MHz, which is pretty powerful.
G810 supports HSDPA connection and similar to most of its HSDPA counterparts, it has A-GPS function.
G810 runs on the latest Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. It means that you can get a few new features like the full page zooming and the cleaner home screen in the Internet Explorer. To me, the improvements are not really that significant.
To conclude, G810 has got everything has got all the hip features that a PDA phone should have, A-GPS, HSDPA connection, Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, FM radio, but it’s not perfect. (Have we got a perfect one yet?) QVGA resolution is bit low. Battery life is short. Camera’s capture time and video quality is yet to improve. But all in all, it can still gain Toshiba a pretty good foothold in the market I think!
The pictures in the reviews are taken by Ricoh GX200 12MP Digital Camera.
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