Toshiba's TG01 running Snapdragon launched as T-01A in Japan

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One of the hottest pieces of gear
this year just made its way to retail in Japan. Less than a
centimeter thick, the NTT DoCoMo T-01A is the same
TG01 device revealed by Toshiba
back in February running Qualcomm's ultra-fast 1GHz Snapdragon
chipset. As such, our far east brethren can lay claim to that
4.1-inch WVGA (800 x 480 pixel) resistive touchscreen display;
HSDPA, GPS, and WiFi radios; and Toshiba's custom-built UI meant to
mask its Windows Mobile 6.1 core with a bit of Rothko misdirection.
And now that Toshiba's home country of Japan is all set, we hope to
see the TG01 make its launch debute in Europe and beyond.







[ Source: Engadgetmobile ]

Japan signs off on carriers' LTE plans

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not often that we have an opportunity to point and laugh at the
crushing antiquity of anything in Japan. Look, don't get your hopes
up, we can't really do it here either -- but with LTE, it
seems like the rest of the world has finally reached technological
parity. Japan has just gotten around to approving its 4G carriers'
game plans, with NTT DoCoMo likely first out of the gate thanks to
deployments in 2010 (
around the same time that Verizon expects to have some markets
in action). eMobile, Softbank, and current CDMA carrier KDDI will
follow on through 2011, with a grand total of over a trillion yen
(about $10.4B) being spent in the next half decade. Don't get us
wrong -- we're sure the handsets will still be cooler than anything
we can get, and they'll likely have the entire country blanketed in
4G before most others have just a handful of cities live, but at
least they're not on 5G. Yet.






[ Source: IntoMobile ]