January 12, 2009 12:15 PM PST

Toshiba shows alternatives to iPhone, Netbook

by Brooke Crothers
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At the Consumer Electronics Show, Toshiba was showing prototypes that offer different takes on iPhone- and Netbook-like devices.

Toshiba is not offering a Netbook for the U.S. market but that doesn't mean it's not offering interesting alternatives--though, for now, only prototypes. The Japanese company was also showing a number of iPhone-like (both large and small) prototypes at CES.

Toshiba's Internet Viewer uses a display that is about 10 inches diagonally (same as a large Netbook) and can be detached from the keyboard

Toshiba's "Internet Viewer" uses a display that is about 10 inches diagonally (same as a large Netbook) and can be detached from the keyboard

(Credit: Brooke Crothers)
Some iPhone-like Toshiba prototypes--and some not at all like the iPhone: one (lower, middle) appears to have two screens

Some iPhone-like Toshiba prototypes--and some not at all like the iPhone: one (lower, middle) appears to have two screens

(Credit: Brooke Crothers)
Brooke Crothers has served as an editor at large at CNET News, an editor at Dow Jones' Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, and a senior editor at InfoWorld. His CNET blog covers chip technology and computer systems, and how they define the computing experience. He also contributes to The New York Times' Bits and Technology sections. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. Follow Brooke on Twitter @mbrookec.
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by Hep Cat January 12, 2009 2:07 PM PST
I think you've confused the term "prototype" with "design study". They are very different things, and these are not exactly early examples of products Toshiba is building.
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by kswartz26 January 12, 2009 2:08 PM PST
Gee, sure hope that first picture is a prototype. I wouldn't expect a keyboard with no numbers to be especially useful.
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by dolusa January 12, 2009 2:57 PM PST
If you look more closely it has an number pad intergrated into the keyboard as function keys.
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by xman95 January 12, 2009 3:04 PM PST
The keyboard does have numbers........ look closer and you will see they will require a shift or function key to access.
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by AWJJensen January 12, 2009 6:16 PM PST
The 'illusive' Toshiba Netbook is being sold in Canada...
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by D3vildog699 January 13, 2009 6:21 PM PST
... 0.o

Looks kinda cool actually....
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Brooke Crothers has served as an editor at large at CNET News, an editor at Dow Jones' Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, and a senior editor at InfoWorld. His CNET blog covers chip technology and computer systems, and how they define the computing experience. He also contributes to The New York Times' Bits and Technology sections. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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