Toshiba could well steal the spotlight away from some bigger smartphone names with the launch of its latest high-end handset at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Called the TG01, it's the first announced device with Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon QSD2850 chipset with dynamic speed control to ensure good battery life.

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No one ever said you had to be awesome at everything, and hardly anyone understands this better than Philips. Seriously, the only thing even remotely stellar about the company's family of Xenium handsets is the marvelous battery life, and even though the X620's 2.4-inch display is only QVGA and the USB is only 1.1, how can you possibly argue with a talk time of 12 hours? As in, half a day. Other specifications include a 3.2-megapixel camera, a video record mode, MP3 / WMA player, a microSDHC slot, Bluetooth, quad-band GSM connectivity and EDGE data. As these handsets usually do, this one isn't apt to leave the borders of Russia and China, though there's no mention of price for either of those markets.

Philips Xenium X620 is ready for those late night break-up calls originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Reviews of Philips' new X800 touchscreen phone are starting to hit the wires ahead of its release, and while it's a plenty attractive phone with a lovely 2.9-inch WQVGA display, the relic of a GPRS radio -- you know, the same kind your great grandparents used during the Crimean War -- makes it very difficult to care, unless you happen to be in an area without EDGE or 3G, nor the hope of either technology making an appearance in the forseeable future. On the plus side, that very same black mark on the X800's record should lead to a pretty aggressive pricing strategy for a form factor typically associated with the highest of the high end, and we suppose that's a good thing.

[Via GSM Arena]

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