shopToshiba Store opens @ SM City Cebu

shopToshiba Store opens @ SM City Cebu. 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™.

Toshiba Bulletin Board™—Gives users fast access to day-to-day activities, tasks and projects in a simple and visual way. Bulletin Board makes organizing disparately stored files easier with the ability to drag and drop links, documents, photos, videos and applications into one place. Customize and organize the board by moving, rotating and resizing using gestures to fit personalized style. Bulletin Board also includes several built-in gadgets such as labels, calendars, a clock and a to-do list.

Toshiba ReelTime™—Helps users easily and quickly find files based on when they were opened with a simple visual history. With the flick of a finger, quickly scroll through automatically generated previews of documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more, filter by file type or use the calendar to go back weeks or months.

Sustainable and environment friendly

As a responsible global corporate citizen, Toshiba ensures that all laptops are RoHS-compliant, effectively reducing the environmental impact by restricting the use of lead, mercury and certain other hazardous substances. Additionally, the Toshiba Power Saving Eco Utility, accessible via a dedicated button, helps to reduce power consumption. It displays current power consumption and the power savings achieved by activating Eco Mode in Watts or translated into CO2 emissions.

Toshiba remains committed to providing users around the world with innovative notebook PCs that bring new capabilities and heightened convenience, Toshiba also seeks to contribute to lower CO2 from the home by developing notebook PCs that use less energy than desktop PCs. Use of Toshiba notebook PCs will contribute to lower CO2 emission from the home by approximately 80g per day1, or almost 30kg per year2. This is half the level of CO2 emissions from desktop PCs.

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.

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