Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Toshiba e310
Posted by marlof in "NEWS" @ 02:51 AM
http://www.pocketpcitalia.com/recensioni/hardware/e310.asp
Good news travels fast. Through Mobigeeks I found a full preview of the Toshiba e310 on Pocket PC Italia.com (Google Autotranslation, thanks to Todd Ogasawara for the link), with pictures and a side-by-side to a Compaq iPAQ 3600 series. Before you see the specs and complain about it only having a StrongARM 206 MHz processor, and 32 MB of RAM, I'd like to point out to you that this is an entry level product. This is not aimed at the top of the market, but at the bottom. With the very small size of this thing (look at those pictures!), and the SRP of $399 Cnet quoted, this might do very well!
UPDATE: From the Microsoft Mobility Virtual Press Centre comes an 'official' picture of the device.
Next to that according to the press release: "Other features include a standard Secure Digital™ (SD) expansion slot to increase on-board memory of 32 MB to 288 MB or allow cable-free connectivity with a SD Bluetooth™ card to other mobile devices and the Internet. " So that would mean this would be it would contain a SDIO slot, unlike for instance the iPAQ.
And it is aimed at the entry level customers market: "In addition to the expansion capability, the super thin Toshiba Pocket PC e310 is the ideal handheld for the entry-level customer. With the Microsoft Windows Media Player 8, users can enjoy their favourite MP3 files through a rich, stereo sound system. Customers can enjoy viewing video files, presentations and e-mail on the crisp, vibrant, 64K-colour display. Other multimedia features include digital voice recording, microphone and stereo headphone jack."
Good news travels fast. Through Mobigeeks I found a full preview of the Toshiba e310 on Pocket PC Italia.com (Google Autotranslation, thanks to Todd Ogasawara for the link), with pictures and a side-by-side to a Compaq iPAQ 3600 series. Before you see the specs and complain about it only having a StrongARM 206 MHz processor, and 32 MB of RAM, I'd like to point out to you that this is an entry level product. This is not aimed at the top of the market, but at the bottom. With the very small size of this thing (look at those pictures!), and the SRP of $399 Cnet quoted, this might do very well!
UPDATE: From the Microsoft Mobility Virtual Press Centre comes an 'official' picture of the device.
Next to that according to the press release: "Other features include a standard Secure Digital™ (SD) expansion slot to increase on-board memory of 32 MB to 288 MB or allow cable-free connectivity with a SD Bluetooth™ card to other mobile devices and the Internet. " So that would mean this would be it would contain a SDIO slot, unlike for instance the iPAQ.
And it is aimed at the entry level customers market: "In addition to the expansion capability, the super thin Toshiba Pocket PC e310 is the ideal handheld for the entry-level customer. With the Microsoft Windows Media Player 8, users can enjoy their favourite MP3 files through a rich, stereo sound system. Customers can enjoy viewing video files, presentations and e-mail on the crisp, vibrant, 64K-colour display. Other multimedia features include digital voice recording, microphone and stereo headphone jack."
