PHILIPPINES, 10 February 2010 - Toshiba Singapore Pte Ltd’s Computer Systems Division, in partnership with their mobile computing partner, Tricom Dynamics Inc,  announced the grand opening of its first Concept Store at SM City in North Reclamation Area, Cebu City. This shopToshiba Concept Store will strengthen their presence in the Visayas region and increase market in the retail of Toshiba premium laptops.

Ms. Krislyn Chia, Toshiba Singapore’s Assistant Manager, Toshiba Computer Systems Division, said that with its strategic location at the 3rd level of SM City Cebu’s Cyberzone, the shopToshiba Concept Store will showcase Toshiba’s innovative, high quality and stylishly-designed notebook computers with several enhancements to its line of Qosmio, Satellite, Satellite Pro, Tecra, PORTEGE notebook computers and not forgetting netbooks. This is in line with Toshiba being the first notebook computer maker to celebrate 25 years of notebook innovations and quality. During this celebration, Toshiba would like to engage with consumers more through rich experiences enabled by new and emergent technology.

Convenience for Costumers

“The new shopToshiba Concept Store brings together the complete notebook PC line into one shop in downtown Cebu,” said Ms. Juno Limjap-Sison, Tricom Marketing and Communications Officer. “The convenient location makes it easy for our costumers to come and view our products.”

“We now have a shop floor to showcase what Toshiba’s world-class leading products are capable of.” TRICOM Dynamics President, Mr. Edgardo B. Isleta.

iServ – Toshiba’s Authorized Service Center in SM City Cebu

Finally, a service center that is easily accessible. Customers may now have their notebooks checked while they stroll around the mall, or relax while they wait in the cool lounge area of iServ located within the shopToshiba Concept Store. This Service Center is a service location fully endorsed by Toshiba Singapore Pte Ltd., where service personnel are fully certified by Toshiba and service parts used are originals supplied by Toshiba.

Toshiba broadens its Satellite and Portege lineup featuring NEW 2010 Intel Core Processors and Multi Touch Screen Technology.

Satellite M500 (Premier Series): Empower your fingers with Multi Touch Screen Technology

Toshiba strives to make the notebook PC a natural tool for improving everyday life and let you discover easy and exciting new ways to have fun and get things done with your PC. With the latest Intel’s Core i5-520M Processor coupled with Windows 7 operating system, the touch-screen technology on the Satellite M500 Premier Series offers users a natural way to navigate through their digital world, enhancing the mobile computing experience.

Browse through newspapers and Web pages with ease, of flick through photo albums fast. Users can also easily sift through long lists and files with a natural swirling motion. With multitouch technology, zoom in and out by placing two fingers on the screen and moving them apart. To rotate images, press on the image with one finger and use another one to turn it in the direction you want.

The Satellite M500’s touch-screen technology also works wonderfully with Toshiba Bulletin Board and Toshiba ReelTime.

About Toshiba

Established in 1875, Toshiba Corporation is a global high technology product leader with 315 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Toshiba Singapore Pte. Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation. Its Singapore-based Computer Systems Division (CSD) is the regional headquarters for South and Southeast Asia. In addition to notebooks under the Qosmio, Satellite, Satellite Pro, TECRA, PORTEGE and libretto product brand names, the company also offers portable and wireless accessories for customers under the Toshiba brand name. Fore more information, visit the company’s website at www.pc.toshiba-asia.com.

At shopToshiba Concept Store you can find these beauties:

Samsung Corby

My Color, My Life.

• Designed to Catch the Color Wave

Don’t be surprised if virtual strangers want to hold your phone – it’s that touchable and appealing. Delicious to the eye, its unique bi-color design and contoured body is a joy to hold and own. Fitting comfortably in hand, clutch it all day if you want – at least to make sure nobody else grabs it! If you feel like a change from vibrant color to cool graphics, just switch up the back cover to the extra patterned one included. It is matched hue to hue, that express your maverick style and individuality. The available colors are Jamaican Yellow, Festival Orange, Cupid Pink, and the Minimal White.

• Activate Your Social Networks

With online social communities now a given, face it, you can’t live without social network sites – and having access to it all the time. The Samsung Corby is a super communicator with Pop-up SNS that gives you widget-friendly single icon access, both a pre-installed selection and even more downloadables. You can receive updates on an idle screen – ideal when you’re following SNS site updates and itching to see fresh posts on your favorite SNS sites.

• Intuitive Full Touch Experience

Experience the sensory pleasure of full touch screen, even better with a smartly intuitive and simple to use TouchWiz UI that further enhances your user experience. Take advantage of an icon-perfect menu of widgets pre-stored and also downloadable from an extensive online assortment — makes your phone more fun and convenient to use, not to mention making your life easier. Have a blast with useful tools an keep yourself up-to-date with the latest in news and entertainment, along with your favorite SNS sites.

• Touch Convenience Personified

Experience the true convenience and usability of touch screen technology with two exceptional features: Smart Unlock and One Finger Zoom. Just by tracing an alphabet letter on the screen, you can unlock security access on your handset and also go straight to your favorite applications – like a customized menu unleashed by your finger! Another finger-smart feature is One Finger Zoom, letting you enlarge sections of interest while you want to see certain pictures in sizes two times larger for maximized viewing comfort.

• Specification

Network

-Quad Band (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900)

-GPRS, EDGE

Dimension

-103 x 56.5 x 12.4mm / 93.2g

Display

-2.8″ Color QVGA TFT Screen

Connectivity

-Bluetooth v2.0

-USB v2.0 High Speed

Music Player

- MP3, AAC, AAc+, e-AAC+, WMA9

-Find Music

FM Radio with RDS

Video

- Mpeg 4 + AMR NB/H .263 + AMR NB

Camera

- 2 Mega Pixel

- Panorama shot / smile shot

Cartoon UI

Smart Unlock

One-finger zoom

Additional battery covers

- Fashion Jacket (patterned design cover)

- Black Jacket (black color battery cover)

Memory

- Internal memory: 61MB

- External memory: up to 8GB

Pop-up SNS

Samsung Communities

• Accessories

Package Contents

1. Standard cover

2. Fashion Jacket

3. Black Jacket

4. Battery 960mAh

5. 3.5mm Stereo Headset

6. Mic. cable

7. Travel Adapter

So Happy to have Corby! Weeeeeeeeee! Buy one now!

iPod Shuffle in polished stainless steel.

VoiceOver

With the press of a button, this amazing feature tells you what song is playing and who’s performing it. It also announces playlists. So while you’re listening, you can keep running, walking, lifting, or biking. Learn more…

Small is huge

Clip on a 2GB or 4GB iPod shuffle, and up to 1,000 songs—with loads of color—go wherever you go. Learn more…

• Available in selected languages.
• 1GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less. Song capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding; in 256-Kbps AAC format, song capacity is up to 250 songs (2GB) or 500 songs (4GB); actual capacity varies by encoding method and bit rate.
• New products may not be available in all stores immediately.

See http://www.apple.com/asia/ipodshuffle/specs.html for more information.