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Now it is clear that the industry is waiting for handheld computers in the future. Them, these funny, smart kids will not stay at all. And what will replace them? Instead they will be equally small, such as powerful, such as beautiful communicators. That is the same handheld computers, but with built-in wireless connectivity. Actually, such a prospect it is no secret. Hardly any since the outbreak of the first PDA developers vengeance sought some way to provide connection pocket PC to network services. But it took a long time to communicators out of the wall design offices and ceased to be the color pictures in technical journals. Not so long ago in a series of manufacturers of cellular communicators was noted by the famous "Notebook" (to be fair to add - not only the "Notebook"), the company Toshiba. After releasing a series of different handhelds, it provided the public the latest development - the communicator Toshiba 2032, running an operating system Pocket PC 2002 from Microsoft (I suppose - Phone Edition, in the release clearly does not say). Machine set up a subsidiary Toshiba - by Audiovox Communications Corporation, in collaboration with the U.S. telephone company Sprint PCS, which in itself is curious. And the name of the sponsor - Sprint - made on the front panel of the device ... I wonder will it ever have the phone under the name of "MTS" or the "Bee Line". In domestic "peydzherostroenii" something like this already. However, it is in one name it - would be a good technique. A new Toshiba 2032 technology that is necessary. This glorious company of the country of the Rising Sun gave the world many have become familiar things (eg - flash memory), produces very high quality equipment ... The truth is forced to make a reservation - if we are not talking about cheap laptops. In this area, the temptation to save at any cost has not escaped even Toshiba. Not my words, and - the owners (not all, of course) cost machines with a proud record label. But that's another story. Let us return to the new communicator.
Only a full-face
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Alas, the information on the new device is very, very little. It is unclear when the 2032 will be in a broad sell exactly where it will be sold (also my secret - in America, where else), and at what price ... No, the price has already declared, and, to the last cent. Namely - 799 dollars and 99 cents. Hence, we have it can cost around 850 (normal for a Russian supplier margin). Maybe, just unlikely. Not for nothing on the "face" machine is the name of Sprint - Communicator is intended only for the networks of CDMA standard and operates in the frequency range 800 MHz / 1900 MHz. Will appear in Russia Toshiba 2032 or not, is not so important. It is clear also that the release of a model of the famous manufacturer of portable computers do not calm down. And we'll know what to expect from him in the near future ... By the way, the new handheld machines from Toshiba hit in Russia is hardly any time with the appearance of them in Europe. So one can hardly say anything as forceful ... Among the unfortunate confusion is not entirely intelligible information about the technical details of the communicator devices. There is not even detailed photos, just the image the front panel and a summary of characteristics. Externally, the communicator is very similar to the Toshiba e310 and e740. Flat front panel, bright color display, four standard for Pocket PC buttons - call scheduling and to-do list, return and display the system menu. In the middle - a big navigation button joystick. Purely phone controls - two buttons "reply" and "hang" below basic. The right of the navigation button microphone grille. Speaker pronounced in the upper right corner. The location of a speaker and microphone a few unusual things.In other communicators, they are spaced along the diagonal (bottom left - top right). For the convenience of managing a small communicator convenient location just a microphone and speaker in the corners of the body. Although, you should try - maybe this arrangement, as in 2032, better than the traditional ... A pair of lights - orange and green - in the left corner of the case. Their purpose is still a mystery, but it most likely indication of a telephone call, the system event notification and display the power system device (charge and discharge the battery). In general, housing is as ergonomic and uhvatistym. In addition to short-solid antenna, no extra "clues" there. Hence, the device would be nice to feel in your pocket ...
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Buttons on the side faces of the body is the control button on the recorder and navigate the onscreen menu. The upper part of the typewriter in the picture is not visible, but we can assume that this face of the body has a slot for SD memory cards (according to specifications it is present). Feature of the new device are advanced voice features. What does this mean exactly can not say. But digital recorder machine is definitely (and with it - and the system is voice dialing). Due to the unknown to me, "the kettle with the experience, services Sprint PCS, machine is capable of transmitting data at speeds up to 144 kbit / c. While (read in a curious short article), the usual rate of exchange for the networks Sprint PCS - 50-70 kbps. Well, the wind in their sails ...
Computer minced
Computer component of the new device is not as impressive as it could be. This is the most common Pocket PC 2002, built on a processor Intel StrongARM SA-1100 clock speed of 209 MHz. Standing and working memory machines - 32 and 32 megabytes respectively. By the standards of modern models of PDAs are not heavily. However, memory can be extended using the cards Secure Digital (standard, which is rapidly gaining popularity, thanks to new computers, Palm and manufacturers of digital cameras).
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Color screen built on the technology of active matrix liquid crystal, has a standard for the Pocket PC solution. It is not clear what kind of technology used in the construction of the backlight. Judging by the pictures, the screen is clearly reflective (the colors on it a little muted, relaxed - as happens on matrices with a reflective light). It would be strange to assume otherwise - nondisconnectable screen backlight. Unlike the Pocket PC device is used everywhere - including in bright daylight. The computer can include, specifically finding shade. Are not going to seek this same shadow, to answer an incoming call or when an urgent need someone to call?
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In a summary of Toshiba in 2032, with particular fervor lists a set of software, which is attached to the machine. Like, all that is necessary for effective professional work ... In the meantime, this list does not shine with originality - Pocket Word. Pocket Excel, and all the other "pocket", that put a PDA class. Any special software releases sweets I have not considered ... However, one curious contraption is. The standard delivery includes 2032 MS Pocket Streets - Topographic program that facilitates the orientation of the owner of the CPC in an unfamiliar (or familiar) city. This programm is indeed funny, and probably useful. But not us, since maps of Russian cities to her no. And communicator, in general, purely American.
Run, rabbit
Why is the rabbit? Because of the name Sprint (a sort of smart slider) and a nice, recognizable, truly, "toshibovskoy" appearance. Take a look for yourself - just round shape, a fundamental lack of design pomp (think trimmed to the nines, like an old Cadillac, typewriter iPaq) - a rabbit and eat. A device turns out very nice - at the latest models of Toshiba. It remains to wait for the European GSM variant sold on a "full program" GPRS. And - collect money, Adrenaline computer adventure ... It looks like the image of a modern handheld device looms brighter. Unlike a smartphone, PDA is not as convenient as a phone, but it is more versatile as a PDA. In fact, the call quickly with besklaviaturnogo communicator - the whole process. Need to call the on-screen keyboard, enter the on-screen buttons with your finger or stylus, or call the address database, and again the pen to select the desired subscriber. Yes, during a conversation we must try to do without intimate contact, touch-sensitive screen with its own identity. A smartphone - the same phone. Ran on the buttons called - and all the cases.
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But try to read on a tiny smartphone screen book, write something in a text editor to calculate in a spreadsheet. Games aside - this is fun young (who are unlikely to elicit the parents instead of a powerful communicator desktop), but they are on the Pocket PC has, and even some ...
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The handset (computerized telephones) and communicators (telephone service computers) different tasks. Some are primarily phone and second of all - the means of access to unnatural telephone network services. The latter provide access to network resources and simultaneously serve as a phone. Division it will be long enough as long as in communications do not have any fundamentally new ideas. Meanwhile, considering the Handspring Treo (any of them) or about the new Toshiba 2032, come to think that along with the communicator in his pocket would be nice to have a simple and elementary phone. And so to write off the traditional PDA is too early - next to a cell phone, he himself turns into a good communicator ... And yet quietly trot along a quiet side of the rabbit will not give. Catch up, scared to death and forced to burn up the road ... bloodthirsty wolves? No, not wolves - the competitors. You know, that are capable of frightened rabbits? Afraid to say ... The authors, translation:
Nikolai Yakovlev