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Let the Tegra 2-powered, Android Honeycomb tablet announcements begin!
Apparently (and understandably) staying away from a Folio 2 moniker,
Toshiba is kicking off CES with its new unnamed 10.1-inch Android
tablet, and we have to say from our brief look at a non-working unit a
few weeks ago, it may just have what it takes to stick out from the
rest.. at least on the spec and manufacturing quality front. The
tablet has a capacitive, high 1280 x 800-resolution display along with
an accelerometer and ambient light sensor (or what Toshiba has dubbed
as Adaptive Display technology). It also has a 5 megapixel rear camera
as well as a 2 megapixel front-facing one. Yep, this one is well
stocked and just a quick look at the pictures below will show that the
slab has got full sized USB and HDMI jacks, a single mini-USB socket,
and an SD card slot.
While we couldn't turn on the dual-core Tegra 2-powered tablet, which
will eventually run "the next version of Android designed for tablets"
aka Honeycomb, we have to say the EasyGrip, spill-resistant,
rubberized back felt really solid in hand and the 1.7-pound, .6-inch
thick tablet felt comparable to the iPad in terms of portability. Oh,
and did we mention that the aforementioned rear cover is swappable, so
not only can you change its color but you can replace the battery? We
told you it had some of the ingredients to make it go far, but we're
obviously lacking quite a bit of information here to make any further
decisions. Toshiba's maintaining that the tablet will be released in
the first half of 2011 (it obviously has to wait until Honeycomb has
been made official) and the pricing will be competitive, but we'll be
digging for more when we get to Vegas and hopefully reporting back
with some impressions of a working unit.
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