January 6th, 2010

Toshiba works on instant voice translation software for cell phones

It makes a lot of sense, but it seems to be hard to realize: Using the cell phone for instant voice translation of basic sentences whenever you’re in a foreign country. But Toshiba is one of the companies working on this, and apparently they’re almost ready to offer a decent solution.

Their translation software, in its current iteration, enables cell phones to interpret between English, Chinese… → Read More

July 15th, 2009

Uh Oh: The Toshiba TG01 is diseased

If you’re part of the very, very, very small segment of Crunch readers who happens to live in Germany, and you’re an O2 customer, and you bought a TG01 – look out! Your new toy might make your computer feel a bit woozy inside. → Read More

June 23rd, 2009

Bad start: Toshiba fails to properly launch the TG01 in Japan

I haven’t had the chance yet to try it out but those who did say the Toshiba TG01 seems to be a pretty good cell phone. Needless to say, the TG01 (1 Ghz CPU, 9.9mm body and a 4.1-inch touchscreen) was due out in Japan first. But most customers over here are still waiting for the “iPhone killer”. → Read More

May 26th, 2009

Top 10: The best new cell phones Japan gets this summer

Japan’s telecommunications giants NTT Docomo, KDDI au and SoftBank present new cell phones four times a year: spring, summer, fall and winter. All companies showcased their summer 2009 wares in the last few days, including some simply incredible devices.

The top 10 models across all carriers (chosen by yours truly) after the jump. → Read More

April 14th, 2009

Fixing a hole: Toshiba's 2009-2010 product roadmap leaked

Mario and Luigi must be working some incredible overtime these days, what with all the leaks that keep springing up across the Interpipes. Lucky for us, until they get around to fixing all these holes, we all get to enjoy some exciting unknown product rumors. According to the leaked info, Toshiba has 5 new 1 GHz Snapdragon + WinMo 6.5-based devices (2 smartphones/3 MIDs) planned for release over… → Read More

February 19th, 2009

Sneak peek of Toshiba's TG01 prototype

We recently discovered that Toshiba makes cell phones. Now you can check out a video of the TG01 prototype, where an enthusiastic Qualcomm representative demonstrates a 3D virtual world to show us the capabilities of the phone. The combination of the sleek design and the pretty touchscreen may appear irresistible, but the Windows Mobile OS will probably prevent it from being the highly anticipated… → Read More