No Toshiba TG01 for USA

Home » News

Reading time icon 1 min. read

Calendar icon Published on

by Surur Davids 

published on

Share this article

Readers help support MSpoweruser. We may get a commission if you buy through our links. Tooltip Icon

Read our disclosure page to find out how can you help MSPoweruser sustain the editorial team Read more

nousa

Bad news for the many people in USA dazzled by the Toshiba TG01.  Like the HTC Touch HD and even the Xperia X1, which at $800 may as well not have come to USA, the TG01 will not feature US 3G.  This sad fact is confirmed by its Global Certification Forum entry, which only confirms HSDPA on the European and Asian 2100 Mhz (UTRA FFD I) spectrum, vs the 850 Mhz AT&T band (UTRA FFD IV).

tg01gfc

While this does not exclude a separate model being made for the US market, and while a CDMA model has been rumoured, in this case it seems again the pernicious influence of the iPhone on the availability of great smartphones to the American public on GSM.

Via theunwired.net.

More about the topics: toshiba, Toshiba TG01, usa

Surur Davids

Surur Davids Shield

Smartphone Expert

Surur Davids is the founder of WMPoweruser which later became MSPoweruser.com. He's a smartphone expert with over a decade of experience.