Toshiba unveils its latest Pocket PC

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By Laura Rohde

LONDON, England (IDG) -- Toshiba unveiled its Pocket PC e310, a personal digital assistant (PDA) using Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 software, at the Microsoft Mobility Developer Conference here on Wednesday.

This is a worldwide release with the handheld being available beginning today (Wednesday), depending on language availability in the software," says Toshiba spokesperson Manuel Linnig.

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He says it is available in localized versions, including English, French and Spanish.

The street price of the PDA is $441, Linnig says.

On the Inside

The Pocket PC e310 contains a 206-MHz Intel StrongArm processor and has a Secure Digital expansion slot that can be used to increase memory from 32MB to 288MB, or to add cable-free connectivity with an SD Bluetooth card, Linnig says.

The Pocket PC e310 is aimed at the consumer market, a change of pace for the Tokyo company, which released the more enterprise-oriented Pocket PC e570 earlier in the year.

That product has 64MB of built-in memory, two expansion slots and a list price of $569.