If there's an organization phone manufacturers probably shouldn't be pulling shenanigans on, the FCC ranks at or near the top of the list -- but Toshiba's latest filing has an awful lot of holes in it that need some 'splaining. At first glance, you'd figure this thing is a
TG01, no big deal, and the product code of TM5-E01 seems to match up with the "E01" sticker at the bottom of the pictured test unit. A quick glance through the user's manual, though, reveals mentions of a 96 x 39 OLED secondary display, a primary display that's a full 1.1 inches smaller than the TG01's, and a device outline that's narrower, shorter, and way thicker. What does that sound like, exactly? A flip phone -- a form factor rarer than unicorns
in the WinMo community -- but the pictures in the user's manual are of a TG01, not a flip. If we had to guess, this is an ultra-early draft of the manual with contents partially and haphazardly ripped out of another model's, but wouldn't it be crazy if Tosh dropped a
Snapdragon-powered clamshell this year?
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posted Mar 4th 2009 11:17AM
Maybe, it is a (shall I say) CDMA Version.?
Or the term 'flip' refers to the WM interface, not the actual form factor? Kind of an oxymoron I guess - but its an attention grabber!
He was saying that the specs of the physical size of the device would be inline with a 'flip' version of it. Not that it said flip on the spec sheet.
So the Moto i920 & i930 are unicorns? I wouldn't consider a WinMo flip that rare. There just isn't a market for a fat flip anymore, and that's exactly what any WinMo flip would be - fat.
My HTC StrTrk (Cingualr 8525) wasn't fat. It was really nice.