14 DAY TRIAL // During the 3GSM exposition in Barcelona, Toshiba has released two new smartphones, the G500 and the G900. The first one is a slider smartphone running Windows Mobile 5.0 (a device already presented here) and the second is running a Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional OS (the Pocket PC version of the new Microsoft mobile operating system).
The G900 is also known as the Portege due to the many bits and pieces this handset has loaned from the successful Portege Notebook Series from Toshiba. The design of the phone is minimalistic and makes the smartphone look like a refined collection of everything good looking in the other smartphones' designs.
Although it is a looker, this smartphone isn't all about this. It will probably be one of the fiercest adversaries to the other handsets on its market niche due to a very well balanced specifications sheet.
It features a tri-band HSPDA radio, a large 3 inch WVGA panoramic touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 400 pixels, a 2 megapixel digital camera and a secondary VGA one for video calls, a miniSD memory expansion card slot, a rear biometric scanner (that's mobile fingerprint scanning for the security maniacs), Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g connectivity, a USB host feature, 64 MN of internal memory and a full featured side-sliding QWERTY keyboard for fast text messaging.
What is even more important about this device is that it is one of the few smartphones appearing at the 3GSM expo and not being manufactured by one of the renowned mobile manufacturers that deal with these sort of devices on a more daily basis (HTC, i-mate, HP and others).
The Portege G900 doesn't have an official price or release date yet so, until something related to these subjects will surface, check back because we'll keep you posted.