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Toshiba shows alternatives to iPhone, Netbook

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

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Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an editor at large at CNET News and a contributing reporter to The New York Times' Bits and Technology sections. His interest in things small began when living in Tokyo in a very small apartment for a very long time.
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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 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 Brooke Crothers