Toshiba TG01 Mobile Phone Launched, Specs Better Than iPhone?

As you might be aware by now, the Mobile World Congress is happening in a couple of weeks, so all of the major manufacturers are releasing all manner of tidbits to get the journos excited.

Today is the turn of Toshiba, who have announced a new handset, the TG01, from out of nowhere!

Promising ‘a mobile revolution,’ the TG01 is a Windows Mobile powered-handset offering a jazzed-up user interface on top in the vein of the Samsung Omnia or the HTC Touch HD‘s TouchFLO 3D.

Actually, the TG01 has a lot in common with HTC’s latest, offering a slender 4.1″ wide handset that is a mere 9.9″ thick.

The VGA screen takes up most of that real estate on the front of the screen, whilst the new Qualcomm Snapdragon chip inside offers the kind of processing grunt to make the TG01 more than a match for the iPhone…on paper at least!

Med Jeewoth, Toshiba’s country manager for UK and Ireland, did the honours, claiming the company have taken their expertise in TV and applied it to mobiles, and they also “listened to what users want – great speed, and the interaction of a touchscreen, but more importantly you want it to look really slick, very slim and very sexy.”

3G connectivity and built-in GPS are all standard, as as support for both Flash and DivX for all your multimedia needs!

A very nice handset in both white and black (the standard post-iPhone smartphone colours), Toshiba’s TG01 is an unexpected but welcome surprise! Hands-on impressions as and when we can get them, promise to make it up with plenty of content when we go to the MWC!

Update: Now with moving pictograms, courtesy of Pocket Lint / Megawhat.tv!

Source: Electric Pig

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