Toshiba Portege G500 - Business Smartphone

[MattyBoy]

Introduction

With the G500 Toshiba Portege offers for quite some time almost unnoticed Smartphone to virtually unrival market prices from about 180th - € (without contract). Under the unspectacular shell stuck innovative safety features: The slider has a Fiinger detection by incorporating a scanner. The powerful business and multimedia mobile phone based on Windows Mobile 5 - here you realise that is no longer the youngest unit. Mbit quad band and HSDPA 3.6 Mbit is the G500 but already, and still so topical. It is visually by the somewhat thicker design. Its features are a 2 MP camera with extensive options, an internal memory of 50 MB and the possibility of the extension with Micro SD cards up to 2 GB. Whether the Toshiba can deliver what it promises to answer our review.

Processing

The Portege G500 acts a bit fat


The back side is like the front of the G500 from plastic


Flap over the USB port


The Micro SD card sits with the battery compartment cover


The memory card slot


Very good workmanship, all elements have only minimal impact


Volume Buttons loud / quiet


Solid slider mechanism

Processing feature

1. The first impression of optical / special features to support the design: simply kept looking at back slider with some depth - not quite timely.

2. Housing material / surface quality: smooth plastic combined with plastic elements
3. Housing dimensions: There is much thinner and more compact slider. The width and length are still in order, but the G500 is by today's standards slider visible fat; Dimensions: 96 x 49 x 22.9 mm, weighing 110 g.

4. Quality of the keys: Plastic keyboard with equally soft and good walking pressure point.

5. Quality (sharpness / resolution) of the display: QVGA TFT display with 65,000 colors and 2.3 inch; pleasantly neutral color display.

6. Implementation of the folding or sliding: Slider with stable-acting mechanism, even after frequent-and no game gets in touch.

7. Quality of the battery cover: Plastic battery cover with very good fit.

8. The quality and extent of the accessories supplied: Headphone, charger, software, operating instructions.

9. Conclusion processing: With its compact design is quite the G500 in any case cathces to the eye - unfortunately, because the device is too thick. The surface of the keys can be easily arranged angeraut and thus prevent a slide. Plus collect the points with its sharp slider display, the battery compartment well-fitting lid and the enclosed accessories.

[MattyBoy]

Business Feature

1. Supported networks: GSM / EDGE, 900, 1800, 1900; EDGE, HSDPA 3.6 Mbit.

2. Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, USB 1.0, WiFi 802.11 b / g.

3. Reception and voice quality: The sound quality is pleasant and the background is relatively refreshing. The reception strength is okay, but not above average.

4. Voice quality of the speaker: About average you can speak less. The voice is overridden and hall end play. Even with medium volume, the G500 has no points here.

5. Battery life (with normal use): Max. 2.5 days at low to normal use, which is a mobile phone equipped with this completely normal. Especially if you frequently use HSDPA and we are still in an area with only average HSDPA reception qualities, so that the G 500 more, HSDPA mode in a slower type of data transmission and back changes will reduce the battery life rapidly. Similarly, a decline of the battery operating time to determine if the wireless option uses. In the worst case, the G500 will be loaded daily.

6. Storage facilities contacts: First name, surname, telephone office, cell phone, home phone, adjust tone, picture, email, IM, telephone office 2 Phone home 2, telephone company, categories: Holidays, Work, personal, seasonal, pager, car phone, office fax, fax privately, Secretariat telephone, radio telephone, e-mail 2 Email 3, IN 2, IN 3, website, Save As, position, department, company, office, office address: Street, City, State / Province, zip code, country / region, private address: Street, City, State / Province, zip code, country / region, and further address: Street, City, State / Province, zip code, country / region, notes, nickname, birthday, anniversary, government ID, account name, Customer number, a partner (in), children, Secretariat; extensive contacts.

7. Profiles: Normal, Silent, Meeting, Outside, automatically, headset, car-free calling.

8. Calendar options: new date, by week, month view, today, go to date; options: 1 Day of the week by week: 5 days, 6 days or days - week; month view / show calendar week; memories: 1, 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, none; agenda.

9. E-mail functionality: Outlook e-mail - like the stationary, known by the PC Outlook has the overview of his e-mail accounts. Windows experienced users will therefore immediately cope. Thanks to HSDPA 3.6 e-mails quickly downloaded. When non-mobile is used all necessary adjustments, however, be configured manually.

10. Internet functionality: After manual configuration of Internet access the G500 acts quickly and skilfully. The display of pages is good, the display is but as with most of today's mobile phones are too small for a really useful presentation.

11. PC synchronization: Using ActiveSync problems. Contacts, appointments, tasks and e-mails can be easily synchronize. For example, it is also possible to e-mails that are still not in the Outlook account on the PC, to mobile phones and hand as the train in Rune to read. However, there are 5.0 for Windows Mobile still some difficulties with some virus scanner or firewall.

12. Further facilities: Integrated fingerprint scanner on the back of the phone. With the program installed fingerprint launcher "can be a finger of the hand various programs and assign them by fingerprint open. Installs is also the Picsel viewer to view Microsoft Office documents. Another Internet browser is next to the mobile version of Internet Explorer, Opera also installed. Built for video conferencing is a VGA camera for video telephony.

13. Conclusion: A Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone with stable operational safety and a 312 MHz processor, is not enormous, but a sufficient speed guaranteed. However, the processor so many resources available that the benefits of convincing HSDPA can be implemented. Sometimes, however, be desired program starts with only a short delay. Innovative features such as a fingerprint scanner sound great, but the joy by the somewhat cumbersome handling tarnished. Very extensive and easy to use, the PC sync capabilities.

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Multimedia functions

Good-sounding but unfavourable placed speakers


Headphones with good sound


Controller of the headset


2 MP camera


Fingerprint scanner

Multimedia features

1. Camera equipment: 2 megapixels; digital zoom; recording mode: photo / video; Image & Video: here you get to those already drawn pictures; Zoom: 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x; landscape format; Front camera; environment: automatic, sunny, cloudy,, Night, extended effect: none, gray, sepia, cold, warm, settings: General: Save As: memory card or device; light: on / off after recording; recording mode: Individually, timers, Burst, video; quality: low, medium, high, Resolution: 160x120, 320x240, 640x480, 1280x960, 1600x1200, self-timer: 5 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec; burst number: 2, 4, 6; post-processing options: Zoom: enlarge original size; screen presentation, as a home page, picture transfer (send by Bluetooth); edit: rotate, crop, AutoCorrect, cancel, save under; save in contact save, save as: name, file type, dimensions, file size, created on protected; properties such as Save As; options: General, screen presentation.

2. Camera quality: In bright light and normal lighting conditions, you get quite good results. Colors and shapes are properly displayed. Despite the photo light can Portege G500 no useful results in the darkness. Even with well perceptible light cuts here unfortunately bad.

3. Video camera equipment: H.263, MPEG, WMV; recording mode: Format: 3gp or mp4; quality: low, medium, high, Resolution: 144x176, 240x320; recording time limit: 15 sec, 30 sec indefinitely; automatic inclusion: on / off; effects , Environment, front and cross-camera format, such as setting camera.

4. Video quality: The shape and colour display are very good, but unfortunately by fast movements with pixel clouds may be used. (There is a steady hand to preserve) the audio is also a big minus point. Voices have no substance, sound rather dull and are heavily distorted, sometimes even hardly recognizable. This is because G500 not keep pace with other competitors and therefore cuts worse.

5. Facilities of the built-in music player: Windows Media Player: MP3, AAC, AAC +, eAAC +, WMA, AMRNB; Library, Play / Pause, Stop, randomly repeat: repeat, repeat randomly; options: playback, video, network, library, designs, keys; properties: Artist, Album, album artist, title, genre, protected, length, evaluation, playing the number, location, bit rate; Info, no equalizer for fine-tuning and modification of songs available.

6. Sound quality of the music player: Good-sounding midrange. The high and low you can not complain, except for songs with a strong emphasis on bass (hip-hop or R & B tracks) Here is a not inevitable noise in the background and clearly audible. An optimal sound image is obtained by the mobile phone sets in the front and medium-sized volume chooses, as the internal speaker is not very favourable position (on the reverse side) and a lot of sound swallows.

7. Radio yes / no, sound quality radio: No radio - should be included in this price class and Mobile Phone - category to include equipment.

8. Storage capacity: 50 MB internally expandable via Micro SD cards with adapter, max. 2 GB.

9. Conclusion: With an extensive camera / video equipment, the Toshiba Portege G500 in points during the day and achieves good results, regrettable but not wise with the results in the dark. The equipment in the media player includes the (lowest) standard equipment. Its songs fine-tuning to miss, it must be here, since no equalizer or similar installed. A radio is not on board, which at this price class course should be. The dynamic with 50 MB of memory is our opinion for a device this category too low. Thanks to Micro SD cards but up to 2 GB expandable.

[MattyBoy]

Total Conclusion

The Toshiba Portege G500 thrilled the fast downloading of large emails thanks to HSDPA, the proper display and the perfect camera equipment. The housing processing works quite solid. The entire equipment is very large extent, the market price is very cheap. With Windows Mobile is the communication with Outlook on your home computer or office PC particularly effective. These advantages are several disadvantages. The only average battery life, especially in the intensive use of rapidly declining, is for such a Business-/Multimedia-Telefon not optimal. The built-in speaker to free speech has no convincing quality. With many menu items and a somewhat sluggish handling is the letter of MMS or SMS also not as simple as the normal user talented. Who is incorporated in Windows Mobile, on the other hand, have hardly any problems. Below average is the equipment of the music player.