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Toshiba is revamping its Excite tablet line, with the introduction yesterday of three new tablets running on Android 4.2 and utilizing NVIDIA’s Tegra chips. The three tablets, named Excite Write, Excite Pro and Excite Pure, have similar features at varying price points. The Excite Pure comes in on the lower level of the spectrum, offering…
Toshiba is apparently working on a new tablet with Nvidia’s Tegra 4 processor. As you can see from the image above (and few other images below), the upcoming device — marked as AT10LE-A — will be one of the first products to use the super-fast CPU. Though it may not be the only such tablet…
Toshiba will be releasing the thinnest 13 MP camera sensor ever manufactured. At just 4.7mm thick, the unit is designed to fit snugly into future smartphones and tablets. Toshiba is expected to start shipping samples of the module to manufacturers in early May, and we could see the camera module make its way into tablets and smartphones in the…
Toshiba unveiled a new entry level 10.1-inch Android tablet in the Regza Tablet series, AT501. The device will be available in Japan later this month for approximately 45,000 yen, which translates into some $481. Aside from the LED-backlit display, Toshiba’s baby also packs NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 quad-core chip, a number of ports (usual for all…
Toshiba has started rolling out Jelly Bean update for its Excite 7.7 tablet. The new software comes with the so called “hybrid UI” that makes the tablet look like it’s a Nexus device, delivering improved user experience along the way. The 348MB heavy download will also bring all the usual Jelly Bean goodies, including improved…
Not sure whether you’ve heard about Lytro or not; they make an interesting camera that allows users to first take a shot and re-focus later. I don’t understand their technology but you can learn more about it from Lytro’s website. Toshiba is apparently working on something similar. Their 1cm-thick camera module will house an array…
Toshiba announced yet another Android tablet, Excite 10 SE, which comes with a 10.1-inch 1280×800 pixels touchscreen and which will be available later today for $349.99. Specs wise, this device packs Nvidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 3-megapixel camera on the back, HD front-facing camera, 16GB of built-in memory, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microSD memory card slot, while…
Toshiba announced a new 13-megapixel, 1.12 micrometer CMOS image sensor that promises to deliver high-image quality equivalent to a 1.4 micrometer sensor. The company did this by implementing back side illumination (BSI) technology and integrated color noise reduction (CNR) to make a sensor that fits into an 8.5×8.5 mm size camera module. As a result,…
Toshiba unveiled a new 10.1-inch Android tablet in the UK – AT300SE. According to the Japanese company, the device is “ideal for everyday tablet users,” packing such specs as NVidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 1280×800 pixels display, Wi-Fi, GPS, dual cameras (3MP on the back, 1.2MP front-facing one), Bluetooth, 16GB of built-in…
Surprise, surprise. Toshiba has started rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) updates to lucky Thrive owners. This was totally unexpected as many of us believed the upgrade wasn’t expected until the fall. We guess the Tokyo based manufacturer figured out whatever issue it was having with the update, which caused them to originally delay…