Just catching up with some interesting stuff from last week’s mammoth 3GSM event. And this handset is one of many intriguing new devices. The Portege G500 provides a Windows Mobile 5.0 OS, two megapixel camera, secondary camera for video phone calls, music playback and 64MB of onboard memory. So far, sooooo familiar. But this sliding sexpot also features a fingerprint sensor for both security and easy navigation.
How paranoid do you have to be to insist on hiding your data behind a biological blockade? And won’t it get your display even more smudgy than usual? Clearly retinal scanning is the answer – especially when we finally see devices that beam images directly into your very eyes. Perhaps at 3GSM 2008, eh Toshiba?
(Via Toshiba)
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it’s been proved that you can lift someone’s fingerprints off the shiny surface of their phone using a phone-quality camera and then use it to make a false fingerprint that will fool the phone’s fingerprint sensor.
This phone uses Windows Mobile 6, not 5 as stated above.
That’s cool – when this phone was first announced, Toshiba put WM5 on it because 6 had only just come out – it must have been upgraded. Thanks for letting us know.
I wonder if this thing is going to have a touch screen. I almost bought the HTC S710 until I found out it had no touchy.
the picture looks like a g500, not g900 to me
Er… KEITH!
Thanks, D, you’re right. Here’s the actual G900:
http://www.toshiba-europe.com/mobile/Images/G900_FO_Main_EN.jpg
Well, what’s a 5 or a 9 between friends…?
Of course, the S5007V has its own compromises. It has a smaller 12.1 inch 1280 x 800 WXGA LED screen (the ThinkPad X300, Dell XPS M1300 and MacBook Air have 13.3 inch screens) and a relatively slow but low-voltage processor