Comments on: Spot Review: Toshiba TX80 UMTS phone

By: tuanngoc

tuanngoc — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:54:47 +0000

How about the sound quality, music player MP3 quality?
I heard from others that Toshiba mobile got a problem with Mp3 player because it will only play DRM-free AAC and fixed bit-rate MP3 files and for a phone with serious music-playing pretentions that’s a big limitation. They tried loading some variable bit rate (VBR) encoded tunes, which give better sound quality for the file size and the phone simply refused to play them

By: some

some — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:17:48 +0000

Do you know where I can get a free 3GP converter. So far I’ve used Alive 3GP video converter (that works) but its only trial version.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:33:48 +0000

You can of course download wallpapers onto the phone (from ur PC to memory card, or from online sites), and set them as wallpaper from the options menu, just like all other phones, select your pic, click options, set-as, wallpaper. conversely go to settings>display>wallpaer and select your own file. this feature should be on 99.9999% of phones in the market.

videos: copy them (in 3GP) into the memory card, get a card reader, put them onto the same folder as where the videos taken by the camera would appear.

Yes you need steady hands to take pictures for all camera phones…. no matter how expensive/ cheap they are.

By: some

some — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:56:32 +0000

I just purchased a TX80 and I’m pretty impressed with the display. Its as good as Sharp’s Aquos and the screen is big too. However I’m wondering if you can download wallpapers onto the phone? Currently, I’m forced to use one of the four default themes.

I also saw a couple of people have uploaded videos (or movies) onto the phone. How can this be done?

Finally, the sample pictures you took above look great but my pictures turn out blurry all the time. I find one needs to have a very steady hand and because it does not have AF affects the picture quality a lot.

Thanks

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:47:12 +0000

Depends on where you're selling it, and what's gonna come out in the market in the coming months. Nobody knew that the Sharp 903 still managed to top most camera reviews 2 years after its launch, because of its large AND CCD sensor.

comparably the TX80 does not have as much flare, a 3MP Nokia s60 flip phone down the line can easily take over the interest.

By: Blah

Blah — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:16:47 +0000

is the re-sell value of this phone high?

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:50:11 +0000

There’s no official data on that, but it won’t last as long as SonyEricsson’s Walkman phones for sure. My educated guess is 15hours.

By: Blah

Blah — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:08:15 +0000

for the battery life, how many hours would you say if I only used this cell phone to play music (flight mode)?

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:20:12 +0000

There is no GPS on the TX80, so the GPS is found on the Japanese version, and is locked to Japan

the memory card is of course hot-swappable

By: Blah

Blah — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:03:04 +0000

Some Questions:
1) Is the Memory card hot swap?

2) Does the Navi GPS software work for countries like in Canada? or is it locked only for Japan Softbank?

Thanks man