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Toshiba knows that there are different kinds of users when it comes to the world of consumer electronics, which is why where the TV market is concerned, they have decided to position their most recent addition to the Regza family as an entry level device. Known as the Toshiba Regza Dynamic 40S5, it will clearly target the entry level market by offering adequate bang for your hard earned buck in the form of a 40” LED backlit TV. If your wallet is on a diet, fret not – after all, this particular bad boy is going for a mere 85,000 yen, which translates to roughly $1,090.

As for the features found in the Regza Dynamic 40S5, you can expect to enjoy the aforementioned 40” LED backlit panel in addition to a 5,100,000 dynamic contrast, Toshiba’s very own Regza Engine, USB hard drive recording capability, a 10W x 2ch speaker setting, and a Digital TV Tuner. Since it walks on the budget side of things, you can forget about add-ons such as DLNA support and 3D capability.

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Confusingly announced by Fujitsu, the Toshiba Regza T-02D will settle into a wall of similarly bright-colored, good-looking smartphones in NTT DoCoMo stores starting this week. The (Japan-only) phone’s 4.3-inch OLED screen holds onto a middling qHD resolution, but Fujitsu says its “new AMOLED Plus technology” will apparently render in higher clarity than any of its preceding smartphone displays — we’ll wait to see it in action before coming to any conclusions. There’s no word on who’s behind the dual-core 1.5GHz processor, but Xi connectivity (how Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo brands its LTE provision) makes a Qualcomm chipset likely. Fujitsu is also pushing the phone’s ‘human-centric’ Android skin, like what we saw on its own quad-core slab). This involves a collection of UI tweaks to the base Android 4.0 OS, including Intellicolor, where the phone will sense the color of ambient light and tweak the display accordingly. The phone’s 13.1-megapixel camera reaches an impressively high ISO level of 25600, running on Sony’s back-illuminated Exmor R sensor, while Fujitsu’s also channeled the ghost of the original Motorola Atrix, resurrecting a fingerprint unlock sensor. Other features worth mentioning include high-definition NOTTV compatibility, plus certified water and dust resistance. As is expected from the world of Japanese smartphones, there’s a selection of colors too — the T-02D will be available in Pink, Black and Blue from launch. Japan residents wondering exactly which company made the phone can try to get their head around the full release below.

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Toshiba is one of the few Japanese tech giants to be riding high from a cash standpoint, but the company is still looking for ways to trim the fat — not to mention get some fresh design in the process. The firm is merging the design team for its Regza TVs into the same western Tokyo facility that houses its PC and tablet groups. While there’s a certain amount of cost-cutting involved, the shift will help “fusion products,” Toshiba says, where TV influences PCs and tablets (or vice versa) like so much chocolate getting into peanut butter. The only amount of discord left might be in Toshiba’s TV production, where quality and production controls are being outsourced and more of the production itself is leaving Japan. As much as we’d argue that the Excite 13 is almost too much like a TV to begin with, we’ll only find out whether or not there’s merit to Toshiba’s design nirvana after the groups get cozy with each other later this year.

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Toshiba unites PC, tablet and TV design groups, aims for hub of digital harmony originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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