2012/02/20

Thinner tablet device in the world of Toshiba by Android 4.0




Excite X10 Tablet device from Toshiba a thickness of 7.62 mm so far only a slimmest tablet device in the world in the category, Qatar, 10.1 inches screen.

The device will depend Tablet revealed by Toshiba during the 2012 CES show in Las Vegas, TI OMAP 4420 processor dual-core 1.2 GHz speed and RAM (RAM) 1 GB.

Device equipped with a front-quality 2 mega pixel camera and background quality 5 mega pixel camera and the device will copy the current time
Android 3.2 "Honeycomb", but if the user wants to copy the system Android 4.0 "ice cream sandwich," he wait for some time.

Price of the device with a capacity of 16 GB and connection WiFi will be $ 530 U.S. while the price of memory capacity of 32 GB stillness $ 599 was not available so far no information on other models and on schedule to launch the device in the market, but only the company said it will begin marketing the device in the first quarter of the year ongoing.

Also revealed a manufacturer Computer Hardware Toshiba unveiled its new family of AC100 smartbook, which will running Google's open source mobile Android version 2.1. And This device has a screen measuring 10.1-inch to a full QWERTY keyboard and an Internet camera.


As Toshiba said, this device can withstand for a period of seven days without having to recharge the battery to use the medium for a period of 8 hours of continuous use to surf the Internet and watch the video.
Under the lid there is a CPU speed of 1GHz type NVIDIA Tegra 250 Mobile Processor and RAM area 512 MP platoon and DDR2 Hard Disk (SSD) an area of ​​35 GB,
Connection and a wireless 802.11 (B / G / N) and Bluetooth built-in. While from the outside there are two USB 2.0 ports and one full size and one small addition to the card reader SD / MMC and the usual audio ports and port HDMI.
It is expected the availability of this device in Europe, Africa and the Middle East in the rent-third of this year (between month 8 to month 10). Toshiba has not yet determine its price.



It will come with a non-touchscreen 10.1-inch display with 1024 x 600 resolution display. Other features include a 1.3MP webcam, Wi-Fi (b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, an optional 3G module, an integrated SD memory card slot, a USB port, a mini-USB port and HDMI-out. The Toshiba AC100 will be available from August 2010 although pricing remains a mystery for now.


Slashgear, Crave and PC Pro managed some hands-on time with a prototype device and found that whilst the AC100 was indeed lightweight there was an element of flex in the chassis and keyboard. The software seemed to freeze and there is no Flash support right now, although an update to Android 2.2 (complete with Flash 10.1 support) is pencilled in over the next few months.

Of more concern, however, was the limited peripheral support given the Android OS. Printers and cameras are the main offenders whilst mice and external keyboards should be okay. Also, the fact that the display was not touchscreen meant that the Android UI was a bit unintuitive over a mouse. Check out some videos below. 



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