Toshiba Portege G810 Review

Toshiba Portege G810 Review

Toshiba Portege G810 is a Pocket PC that can be a serious competitor to the newly launch HTC Touch Cruise.

The G810 phone has a TFT 65k touch screen that is powered by Qualcomm MSM7200 (400MHz) processor, utilizing 256MB of ROM and 128MB RAM.

This phone is also equipped with built-in GPS and A-GPS, making it a full-fledged navigation device.

This phone has a 3 megapixel camera with autofocus, FM Radio with RDS and Windows Media Player.

Display and Touch

The phone has a 64 thousand color 2.83" touch screen that's one of the best among Windows Mobile Pro phones. It's extremely bright (retina-burning at max brightness indoors), very sharp and colorful. It comes closer to the iPhone's lovely display than any other WinMo phone to date, including the Sony Ericsson Xperia.

That brightness comes in handy for outdoor viewing; unlike many WinMo Pocket PC phones, the G810's display is viewable outdoors. It does lose color saturation and some contrast but it remains readable. The screen is also pleasingly sensitive and responsive.

It's more iPhone-like in terms of responsiveness and requiring a light touch than the HTC Touch products which require a great deal of pressure and a concerted finger-drag to scroll.

Be Always connected

With the Portégé G810 you have multiple connectivity options including Quad band GSM, 3G, HSDPA, HSUPA, EDGE, Bluetooth and WiFi. And there are plenty of ways to communicate including voice, SMS, MMS, Email, video calls and instant messaging.

Bundled Software:

Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition operating system with customized versions of Spb Mobile Shell, Pocket Plus and Full Screen Keyboard. JBlend Java runtime. Microsoft Mobile Office suite including Mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint (PowerPoint is view only), Internet Explorer, and Messaging (Outlook mobile). Also, SIM Toolkit, Certificate Enroller, Internet Sharing, Terminal Services, MSN Instant Messenger for Pocket PC, Windows Media Player 10, Solitaire, Bubble Breaker (game), Voice Recorder as well as handwriting recognition. Additional applications: Camera, Wireless Manager, Picsel Viewer, Streaming media player, Image Editor, Image to Text (OCR application that works with the camera), Task Manager, customized phone dialer, BlackList (call blacklisting), FM radio and A-GPS (downloads data that speeds GPS fix time). ActiveSync 4.5 and Outlook trial for PCs included.