Tosh’s Dinky Dongle
Posted by Jason on
February 25, 2008
Actually it’s a mobile phone with some clever extras. The G450 is officially known as a Four-In-One Mobile Device, the four elements being the aforesaid mobile phone, a high-speed mobile modem, MP3 player, and USB Pen Drive, which it most closely resembles in terms of size and shape.
Just pop in a SIM card and you have a small but still quite useable mobile phone. The tiny OLED display is limited to just phone numbers and a line of text but what more do you need? Plug it into the USB socket on your laptop and you have a mobile modem connecting through 3G/HSDPA networks giving broadband like connection speeds. You can also use the built-in memory (a rather paltry 160Mb) for storing files, or MP3 tracks, which you can listen to through a set of earphones. Playback pauses automatically when you get an incoming call. Suffice it to say it is really small (36 x 98 x 16mm) and light (just 57g), available in black, red or white and you want one, though like me you’ll have to wait a few weeks for Tosh to sort out a price and a deal with a mobile phone company.
