Toshiba is the result of a merger between two pre-World War I companies that has survived to this day and is the third largest semiconductor manufacturer after Samsung and Intel. Toshiba is a very diverse company and although it has interests in various sectors, it mainly earns its revenue from digital products, electronic devices, home appliances and social infrastructure. Toshiba also develops various portable devices such as music players, cell phones and PDAs. The Gigabeat is Toshiba's line of portable music players with initial offerings only supporting music playback and newer models supporting video playback, WiFi connectivity, etc. Toshiba's PDAs are somewhat of an unknown entity in that they are unknown. Indeed, the level of consumer consciousness for Toshiba PDAs is surprisingly low and hence while they may be excellent PDAs, they are not quite popular. They do however have their fan following and amongst the more popular Toshiba PDAs are the Toshiba E310, Toshiba E330, Toshiba E335, Toshiba E350, Toshiba E355, Toshiba E740 and the Toshiba E750. Accessories for the following brands are available at PDA Accessories: Apple / Ipod, Audiovox, AT&T Tilt, Casio, Dell, Handspring, i-mate, MDA, Kyocera, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, Nintendo, Nokia, O2, Orange SPV, Palm, Pantech, Qtek, Blackberry, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, Siemens, Sony, T-Mobile and Toshiba.
Pantech is a little known company that produces mobile phones, smart-phones and PDAs and is based in South Korea. It is the third largest mobile phone maker in South Korea behind Samsung and LG Mobile respectively. Pantech has been an innovator and has received many awards for its daring designs. Pantech claims to be the world's first mobile phone manufacturer to have made a sliding phone, a CDMA 1X phone, fingerprint ID phone, ZIGBEE equipped phone, motion sensing phone, Windows Mobile smart phone and Bluetooth DMB phone. Pantech also claims to have been first in introducing many new mobile phone technologies in Korea. Pantech has also made the Pantech Duo PDA which is a Windows Mobile PDA that has 3G (UMTS and HSDPA) support and with expandable memory (SD cards) is not only the perfect business device, but also an exceptional portable music player. This because you can purchase and download new music using Windows Media Player and the digital music stores embedded in it. The most exceptional feature of the Pantech Duo however is that it is both a slide phone (slide to show numeric keypad) and a flip phone (flip to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard). Also features a respectable 1.3 Megapixel camera. Accessories for the following laptop manufacturers are available at PDA Accessories: Acer, Averatec, BenQ, Canon, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hitachi, HP, MacBooks by Apple, JVC, Mitsubishi, NEC, Nikon, Sony, Toshiba, Trigem, Viewsonic, WinBook, etc.
LG (formerly Goldstar) is a South Korean conglomerate that produces petrochemical and electronic products as well as mobile phones and PDAs. With regards to their marketing campaigns for their mobile phones and PDAs, I can personally vouch for their success as not only was I incredibly tempted to immediately purchase the LG Chocolate phone but experienced similar desires for the more recent LG Viewty. An interesting fact about the LG Viewty is that it was widely reported by many magazines and tech sites that it outsold the Apple iPhone in terms of units sold in Europe but cannot be confirmed as Apple has not released sales figures for the iPhone. LG has many notable phones and PDAs in their lineup including: LG VX5400 CDMA, LG VX8350, LG VX8550 Blue Mint Chocolate, LG VENUS VX8800 in Pink, LG VX9400, LG ENv VX9900, LG Voyager VX10000, LG Shine, LG CU515 and the LG CE110. LG also owns Cyon, their Korean mobile phone brand. Accessories for the following laptop manufacturers are available at PDA Accessories: Acer, Averatec, BenQ, Canon, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hitachi, HP, MacBooks by Apple, JVC, Mitsubishi, NEC, Nikon, Sony, Toshiba, Trigem, Viewsonic, WinBook, etc.