Toshiba announces G500 WM5 device with extended PC connectivity

by Brian White, posted Feb 26th 2007 at 3:30PM

Toshiba's higher-end G500 was announced and fondled quite a bit at the 3GSM show in Barcelona, Spain a few weeks ago. The G500's Bluetooth, WiFi, tri-band HSDPA, USB on-the-go and WM5 support (why no WM6 yet, Toshy?) seems fairly standard and par for the course. As such, there is little to set this unit off from all the other WM5 devices on the market now -- except for that Toshiba nameplate we're starting to see more and more these days as it steps up to the plate against the likes of HTC and others. One thing that's mentioned includes "extended" PC connectivity for the G500 as it acts as a the keyboard for a PC. While that sounds a little odd, we'll use that ergonomically-enhanced split soft-touch PC keyboard, thank you very much.

Filed under: Handsets, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, Toshiba

Tags: HSDPA, HTC, Toshiba, Toshiba G500, Toshiba G900, ToshibaG500, ToshibaG900, Windows Mobile Smartphone, WindowsMobileSmartphone, WM5, WM6

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Steven Roussey @ Feb 26th 2007 4:14PM

The phone working as keyboard is so you can use it as a remote for things like PowerPoint presentations. I also heard, it can work in reverse, but I can no longer find the link.

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Xavier @ Feb 27th 2007 1:23AM

Yea, but it's not an iPhone!

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db @ Feb 27th 2007 4:23PM

Ok, enough about the freakin' iPhone already Xavier! You've been posting the same freakin' thing in various posts! We already know you probably want one and obviously people can see for themselves that this post has nothing to do with the iPhone, so save it for a post that does, ok fanboy?

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