Toshiba's Excite 13 tablet (Image: Toshiba/Supplied)
The iPad may be facing some more competition with Android with today’s announcement by Toshiba to launch three brand new tablets in 13.3-inch, 10.1-inch and 7.7-inch display sizes, all running with a quad-core processor and on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Maybe it was the wrong time to announce another 7-inch tablet, given the Amazon announcement, but Toshiba persevered. The company has announced that they will be releasing a 7-inch tablet, known as the Toshiba Tablet (AT1S0) and will run on the latest update to Honeycomb, Android 3.2.
Toshiba has announced its brand new laptop today with the Qosmio X770, targeting the gamers who demand high performance to play on the go – with a 3D-capable screen, a very fast processor and enough storage that you would not expect for a laptop.
We’re back with a new episode, and while the tech industry is at a standstill, the Internet gets a red-light district, and the Zune bids adieu. Meanwhile, the week has been dominated by security flaw after security flaw, and Rebecca Black infects our Chris’ mind with the weekend.
And we’re back officially. CES was in full swing, and we saw a lot of tablets, 4G phones and 3D from Sony. We also had crazy Harvey Norman trying to put GST on our purchases online, Facebook being valued at $50 billion and the Mac App Store launch – and hack.
Toshiba Satellite C655 Series Laptop (Image: Toshiba)
Toshiba is to bring out the Satellite C650 Series Laptop, that will target those who wish to get a cheap laptop but with reasonable features without sacrificing in quality.
Toshiba is soon to join the ever-growing tablet market with its latest addition to its product line, its yet-unnamed tablet computer for the US market (as we know). The 10-1.inch display will feature Android version Honeycomb (the exact number is not known) and will also ship with a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip with integrated NVIDIA graphics.
Of course, I think this has to be a yearly tradition. We go back through our analytics information to find out what were the top 10 posts you have read through this entire year. We’re going to do things a bit differently than last year, however, as we post the overall list – but we will also post separate lists for the top articles over at Pwnage, Gadgetlyst and Cupertino Loop.
Images and specs for a new Android-powered tablet have been leaked on an Italian website NotebookItalia (translation via Google Translate). The tablet appears to be called the Folio 100 and looks like having the same dock connector as Apple on a cradle, but will also be running two app markets – The Android Market and Toshiba’s own marketplace.
Well, not a surprise that Toshiba will try and enter the touch-screen devices market. However, having two on a laptop? Called the “libretto W100″, the laptop has two 7-inch wide touchscreens that equate to, apparently, a 1o-inch widescreen display. The device comes out during Toshiba’s 25th Anniversary.
Dell has accused five Asian LCD manufacturers — Hitachi, Sharp, Toshiba, HannStar, and Seiko Epson – for price fixing in a lawsuit filed in the US District Court of San Francisco, according to a report on Reuters.
Toshiba has announced a 64GB embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity yet, and will start mass production in the first quarter of 2010. If you don’t know what NAND flash memory is, it’s just like a hard drive but in a super small size and are used in many digital consumer products – including phones and netbooks.
Toshiba has announced that it will partner up with Nokia, Samsung, Sony and Silicon Image to form a new working group for a new standard. Called the Mobile High-Definition Interface Working Group, it is supposed to be a new connector that will connect mobile phones or portable media devices to a high-definition television or display. The new technology will be based on Silicon Image’s Mobile High-Definition Link (or MHL).
Toshiba has announced that it will showcase its brand new NAND-flash based solid state drives (SSD) at the Consumer Electronics Show 2009 in Las Vegas. The new drives are set to start mass production in the second quarter of 2009 (or between April and June).
After losing the format war against Sony (remember, the HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray thing), Toshiba has released its new XD-E500. The good things is that it uses Toshiba’s new eXtended Detail Enhancement technology (EDE) – which basically upconverts to fill the void between those upconverting players and Blu-Ray; and it costs US$150.