Hasta La Gadget!

Man, talk about a lightning quick turnaround. Just over two months ago, Toshiba was caught showing off 32 nanometer NAND flash chips, and now the firm’s gloating about being the world’s first to hit the “ship” button. Er, it will be should everything continue as planned. As the story goes, Tosh will start mass production of 32Gb NAND flash memories in July 2009, while 16Gb products will begin to ship in Q3 of this year. The point to this madness? To get more memory into smaller devices, which ought to make future smartphone / MID / UMPC buyers quite jovial.

[Image courtesy of Tech-On]

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Toshiba to ship 32nm process NAND flash memory originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff or companies stop sending things. Today we’ve got an 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable hard drive, complete with a swank black / white motif and a nearly unlimited amount of room for, um, whatever the heck you want. Read the rules below (no skimming — we’re omniscient and can tell when you’ve skimmed) and get commenting! Hooray for free stuff!

Huge thanks to Toshiba for providing the gear!

The rules:

• Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for “fixing” the world economy, that’d be sweet too.
• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
• If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
  
• Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
• Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one (1) 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable HDD, model number HDDR500E03X. Approximate retail value is $139.99.
• If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
• Entries can be submitted until Friday, April 24th, at 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

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Engadget’s recession antidote: win a 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable HDD! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We like where this is headed. Toshiba seems poised to capitalize on its incredibly aggressive TG01 form factor, with the TG02 slated for Q4, and the TG03 for some time after that. We already got the skinny on the new handsets, along with the QWERTY-equipped K01 and K02 counter parts, and now we’ve got a few new shots of the TG series to keep things interesting. It’s all a little low-fi at the moment, but while the TG03 looks like the most basic of renders, the TG02 shot (above) seems somewhat photographic in nature — just think if Mr. Blurrycam had some sort of fixation for dotted lines.

Read – TG02 leaked shots
Read – TG03 leaked shots

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Toshiba TG02 and TG03 shots surface originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How much would you pay for an Intel Atom N280-based netbook? $300? $400? How about $600. That’s the tax-inclusive starting price for Toshiba’s 10.1-inch Dynabook UX followup to its dowdy NB100. While ditching the wooly-eyebrowed chub infecting most 1.6GHz N280 netbooks, the UX remains saddled with 945GSE graphics (not GN40), a 10.1-inch, LED backlit 1024 x 600 pixel resolution and 160GB disk. A bit steep considering CULV thin-and-lights are about to flood the market. Get up tight with the Tosh chicklets after the break.

Continue reading Toshiba Dynabook UX’s got talent

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Toshiba Dynabook UX’s got talent originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The last time we heard of lithium titanate battery technology was when learning about the £120,000 Lightning GT, and while we’ve no way to confirm, we’re definitely hoping that the latest development from Toshiba ensures that we’re talking about it far more frequently than once per year. According to a report over at Nikkei’s Tech-On, said outfit has crafted a cell of a Li-ion secondary battery (aimed at electric vehicles, mainly) that sports an energy density as high as 100Wh/kg. Needless to say, the invention relies on lithium titanate for its negative electrode, and considering that Tosh is currently producing a 4.2Ah cell with an energy density of around 67Wh/kg for electric bicycles, it’s easy to see what kind of improvement we’re staring at. Now, if only this stuff could be applied to AA cells, our power-gulping camera flash would be forever grateful…

Filed under: Peripherals

Toshiba dramatically increases energy density of Li-ion battery originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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