Toshiba to Intro Super Thin Honeycomb Tablet
Toshiba will supposedly reveal a super-thin Android tablet during IFA 2011 next month.
NotebookItalia has reportedly uncovered an upcoming tablet from Toshiba that will sport a thinner, brushed-metal chrome frame instead of the current Thrive tablet's thick and heavy rubberized design. Based on appearance alone, the new tablet is seemingly half as thick, and sports a micro-USB jack, a micro-HDMI jack and a microSD card slot.
Outside those details, little else is known about the Thrive successor save for that it may use Google's Android 3.2 "Honeycomb" OS. There's also speculation that it will still use Nvidia's Tegra 2 SoC given that the company's 40-nm quad-core Kal-El (Tegra 3) SoC won't take flight until Q1 2012 (the Asus Transformer 2 will reportedly be the first device to use the third-generation Tegra chip).
As always, there's no word on pricing or availability, and unfortunately, there's no real list of specs either. But an additional report provided by Android and Me states that the Thrive successor (Thrive 2?) will feature TI's dual-core 1.5 GHz OMAP4460 SoC, a 10-inch screen and possibly the same removable battery feature seen with the original Thrive.
Still, for now, everything is speculation until Toshiba supposedly reveals the device during IFA 2011 in September.
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Cool. Apple just got their next target.
Awesome, I love it, because there is nothing apple can do about this, it looks nothing like an IPAD, woonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How dare Toshiba!!! It’s thin and rectangular surely only Apply can make objects thin and rectangular. I can see Apples lawyers rubbing their hands in excitement.
How dare Toshiba!!! It’s thin and rectangular surely only Apply can make objects thin and rectangular. I can see Apples lawyers rubbing their hands in excitement.
Sue the makers of paper too. Its thin and rectangular
Somebody please release nice and thin 11" and 12" tablets, of 16:9 and 16:10 variety!!!
Awesome, I love it, because there is nothing apple can do about this, it looks nothing like an IPAD, woonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Neither does the Galaxy, didn't stop Apple using Photoshop to win an injunction
Price?
.i cant believe this!! me and my sister just got two i-pads for $ 42.77 each and a $ 50 amazon card for $ 9. the stores want to keep this a secret and they dont tell you. go here http://to.ly/b3OR
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Sue the makers of paper too. Its thin and rectangular We will go back to scribbling on rocks, or make paper round.
lol..
epic..
I wish there was a tablet with a pressure sensitive stylus (think Wacom) for us artist in the world.
Be nice if they had an IR port on them as well for using as a custom entertainment center remote.
The Thrive is an awesome tablet, I really applaud Toshiba for putting in everything that some companies (*COUGH* Apple *COUGH*) choose to leave out, I would be getting one if I hadn't scored the HP Touchpad in the fire sale.
lol ill say this:
Can it play crysis?
@tsnorquist
it's called the EEE Slate, more expensive then your typical tablet but it has an i5 and runs full win 7, had they plonked anything but the crappy intel IGP in it i would have scored one long time ago, right now im just waiting for the fusion variant......
Exciting to see Toshiba really take the tablet race seriously. Not that I'd buy it, but at least its an alternative.
Tegra 2 is a fail. Tegra 3 tablets are comin out at that time.