Tuesday 4 January 2011

Toshiba announces 10.1" tablet, awaits Honeycomb

Ahead of CES, Toshiba has announced an Android-powered tablet. The device heads up what is expected to be a wave of Android tablets at CES, including the Motorola Xoom and the Vizio Via Tab.

Toshiba's 10.1-inch Android tablet, exceeding the 10-inch requirement set down by Steve Jobs, so it cannot be called DOA (strangely, as we've pointed out, the iPad actually has a 9.7-inch display), is still unnamed. It will weight 1.7-pound and be 0.6-inches thick.

It will be powered by NVIDIA's dual-core Tegra 2, sport a 1280 x 800 capacitive display, and carry an accelerometer and ambient light sensor to use with Toshiba's Adaptive Display technology.

The device will also ship with a 5MP rear-facing camera and a 2MP front-facing camera. It will also have the requisite SD and mini-USB slots, but in addition, HDMI and full-sized USB, as well.

The hold-up to the tablet is that it awaits Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). Toshiba states that the tablet will be released in the first half of 2011, and that is probably doable with Motorola also chomping at the bit for the breakfast cereal-named Android release.

Engadget has a gallery of shots, in addition to the one above, at their site.

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