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Filed under: Handsets, Softbank Mobile, Toshiba

We kind of wish this was fake — and we’re tentatively overjoyed that it’s not — but we can’t help but feeling a little freaked at the Toshiba 815T PB on Softbank, developed to coincide with a new show featuring (you guessed it) robo-phones called Ketai Sousakan 7. Yeah yeah, QVGA, 3G, 3.2 megapixel camera, that’s all well and good, but our latent fear of cellphone brain cancer kind of just went out the window.

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, GSM, HSDPA, Toshiba

Up until today, Japan’s EMOBILE was up and running, sure, but there was a catch: it didn’t offer any phones. It had been offering Sharp’s lovely EM-ONE, yes, but the device wasn’t voice capable. The low-cost GSM carrier is movin’ on up in the world at this time, though, with the introduction of the Toshiba-sourced H11T clamshell and the Windows Mobile 6-powered S11HT “EMONSTER” from HTC, which should look very familiar to anyone with a TyTN II or Tilt. EMOBILE’s got a fairly small footprint that’s restricted primarily to densely populated areas, so anyone looking to jet set across Japan is probably plan to want the H11T, which is capable of roaming on DoCoMo’s airwaves and features a 3.2 megapixel camera, one-seg tuner, and a QVGA display. The company’s plan to start taking preorders on March 1, with the official voice launch going down on March 28.

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Filed under: Handsets, Windows Mobile, Toshiba

Toshiba already got official with its G710 and G910 handsets last month, but it’s just at this time filled in that rather glaring numerical gap, with it taking the wraps off its new Portege G810 smartphone at MWC (not to be confused with Samsung’s also-just-declare G810). Like those other two, this one’s a Windows Mobile 6 device, and it boasts support for HSDPA and HSUPA, along with built-in GPS and A-GPS, and the continuously-welcome integrated WiFi and Bluetooth. Otherwise, you can expect a 2.8-inch QVGA touch screen, a 3 megapixel camera, a microSD card slot for expansion and even an FM radio in case all the usual PMP features aren’t enough for you. No word on a price, but you can look for this one to hit europ. sometime in the second quarter of this year.

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