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Toshiba TG01. Monster monster

You know when someone has something on their face? You know, like a bit of food in their beard. Or a trickle of blood from a shaving cut. Or what looks like a hunk of venison stuck between their teeth. But you don’t really know the person. They’re new, you’ve only just been introduced, and you don’t really want to talk about the thing on their face. You know.

Well the Toshiba TG01 is just like that, except it’s the whole face that is the issue. The whole 4.1-inch face is so monstrously big that you don’t know where to put your eyes. You want to talk about the other things you know this person is famous for, their other achievements. The fact that the fantastic fast and low-power-consuming Qualcomm processor is being used inside, making all the transitions and animations and other number-crunching features and apps you might want to use as smooth as can be. Or you want to maybe just tickle their ego with a nod towards their super fast 10.2mbs HSDPA speeds. You may even, if you were feeling more confrontational, more Jeremy Paxman (less Piers Morgan), ask where the Toshiba TG01‘s 3.5mm jack was, or why they’d chosen the Windows Mobile OS. But instead, all you can do is stare at the face. That gigantic face.

Then the TG01 (have a look at the Official site if you dare) might ask you to touch their face. To explore their heavily skinned (to hide the origin) Windows Mobile 6.1 interface (updateable to 6.5 as soon as it’s released). The flip between the menus seamless, look, look. Then they might show you how a movie plays on their face, making you note the dynamic gamma correction, look, look.

And pretty soon, as you might expect, you’re running – running faster than your legs will take you, screaming that no phone should ever have a face that big, that it’s just not right, it’s not fair on the phone itself which really isn’t all that, to have such a face. Such a monstrous face. Then you go home and read this Toshiba TG01 review instead, where you don’t have to see the face in person. Then even dare yourself to look at the video below, in which the face appears not as scary as you first thought. And you wonder if it was all a dream…