Showing posts with label Tablets Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tablets Reviews. Show all posts
Today Toshiba revealed two new products that verge on the anorexic: A superskinny Android Honeycomb tablet, and a svelte notebook companion.
In case you don’t believe me, Toshiba’s tablet, the AT200, measures in at only 7.7 mm thick. For comparison, the iPad 2 is 8.8 mm thick. The AT200 features a 10.1-inch display with 1280 x 800 resolution. Inside, it’s got a dual-core TI OMAP 4430 processor that clocks in at 1.2 GHz, with 1 GB of RAM.
Over a dozen new tablets have been unveiled so far this year, from the Motorola Xoom to the funky Fusion Garage Grid 10. Many have taken Apple’s lead by slimming down their mobile products. Toshiba unveiled its 10-inch Thrive tablet earlier this summer, but some devices experienced some bugs after the initial release.
The brushed aluminum AT200 tablet will be available in 16-, 32- and 64-GB models, and will also includes a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with an LED flash. It’s got mini-HDMI out, a micro USB port, and a micro SD card slot. It’s supposed to get 8 to 10 hours of battery life.
Toshiba’s Portege Z830 notebook takes aim at the MacBook Air market. At its thickest point, the Z830 is 0.63 inches, and it weighs only 2.45 pounds. It’s encased in a magnesium and aluminum alloy shell, and is just big enough to house all of the ports you need: two USB 2.0, one USB 3.0, VGA out, SD card reader, ethernet, and HDMI.
Toshiba’s Portege Z830 isn’t as powerful as other comparable notebooks on the market, as it features a somewhat less-powerful Core i3 processor. But what it lacks in power, it makes up in battery life and price; the juice is supposed to last for eight hours, and the entry-level Z830 costs under a grand. Higher-end configurations can include a Core i5 or i7 processor.
The Portege Z830 will be available in the India in September, but no date has been pegged for the AT200’s release.
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Sony is getting into the tablet market with the unveiling of the S1 and S2 Android-based tablets. More specifically, the tablets run Honeycomb, Android 3.0 which is optimized for tablet devices. The two tablets will be the first devices released by Sony to somewhat compete with the iPad.
The Sony S1 contains a 9.4-inch screen that has a similar design to the Macbook Air where one edge is thicker and it tapers to the other edge. The S1 also features a Tegra 2 chip, both front and rear cameras as well as a slightly off-center of gravity that is designed to provide a better grip.
The Sony S2 has a completely different form factor. It has a clamshell design that has two 5.5-inch screens, one on the top and one on the bottom, much like the Nintendo DS line. The two screens can be used in tandem or separately depending on your needs at the moment. For instance, you can view an entire webpage on both screens, or you can have a Macgasm Video podcast running on the top screen while you’re browsing the Macgasm site on the bottom. (Okay, we know you’re going to be playing Angry Birds on one and looking at your twitter feed on the other, but we can dream).
Both the S1 and S2 will come with Wi-Fi as well as a 3G/4G connection. The tablets can also be used as universal remotes through their infrared ports. The tablets are both DLNA compatible, so you can stream media content from your tablet to your TV or wireless speakers.
The biggest feature for gamers is that both the S1 and S2 will have access to the Playstation Suite. Playstation Suite is a service where you can play original Playstation titles right from your device. The first mobile device to have this functionality was the Xperia Play phone.
I think Sony is making the right move by not pumping out a tablet that will get lost in a mass of similar tablets. The addition of the Playstation Suite, and to a lesser extent DLNA, allows Sony to bring some unique value to any tablet that they will release. Many die-hard Playstation fans will be sure to give Sony’s S1 and S2 a long hard look if they are in the market for a tablet device. They may ultimately choose the iPad, but I’m sure a significant portion will choose a device by Sony, solely based on the Playstation Suite feature.
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