The Toshiba Portégé G500 is a

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produced by

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. Its main feature is its fingerprint scanner, which allows increased security for the device.

Features

The Toshiba G500 runs

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for smartphone, on a Marvell Xscale PXA270, 416 MHz processor. Original operating system is Windows Mobile 5 for smartphone and doesn't has any official update to superior versions. However, there are some user made ROMS which include

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. Using Toshiba G900 IPM drivers, processor can run on 520 MHz frequency. Phone has Qualcomm MSM6280 processor as a radio unit. Supported 2G/3G standards: 3G(UMTS) 2100: 1920-2170 MHz GSM 900 : 880-960 MHz DCS 1800 : 1710-1880 MHz PCS 1900 : 1850-1990 MHz

References

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