Posts Tagged ‘Toshiba’

Does HP’s TouchPad Firesale Show We’ve Got The Pricing All Wrong?

August 22nd, 2011
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As we all know, over the course of the end of last week the HP Touchpad saw some very troubling news. First, Best Buy reportedly wanted a refund on over 200,000 Touchpads that they had ordered to fill their shelves.  Then HP announced it was moving away from webOS.  We now believe that Best Buy ...

Toshiba Thrive Android Tablet On Sale Today At Best Buy

July 10th, 2011
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If you read our tablet recommendations you'd see we gave the Toshiba Thrive very high marks.  It's just made for the mobile warrior.  In addition to the greatness that comes with all of the Honeycomb laiden tablets, the Toshiba Thrive is designed around the business user. The Toshiba Thrive features a full sized USB port with ...

Toshiba Thrive Now On Sale At New Egg For $479

July 7th, 2011
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So far the Toshiba Thrive has been one of the hottest tablets we've seen. Out of the box the Toshiba Thrive is the most functional for the mobile warrior.  It includes a full sized SD card slot which supports up to 128gb.  It also features a full size and mini usb connection with host support ...

Video Guide To The Toshiba Thrive Honeycomb Tablet At CE Week NY

June 23rd, 2011
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While at CE Week NY we spent a lot of time with a great tablet, the Toshiba Thrive.  After the Folio fiasco which we saw unfold personally last year at IFA, Toshiba has taken their time and expertise in other consumer electronic areas and given us the Toshiba Thrive Wi-Fi tablet.  This tablet is amazing. The ...

Toshiba’s Newest Android 3.0 Tablet Available For Pre-Order With ‘Thrive’ Name

May 23rd, 2011
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With all these tablets showing up its not surprising to hear that Toshiba has one up their sleeve. According to Tablets Planet Toshiba has announced their newest upcoming tablet featuring Android 3.0 that is available for pre-order on New York based retailer J&R’s online store. This newest tablet features a 10 inch display with resolution or 1280X600, two-megapixel ...

MHL Consortium And The Droid Guy Are Giving Away A Samsung Infuse 4G And A Samsung Galaxy S II (Before You Can Buy It)

May 16th, 2011
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From now until June 6th the MHL Consortium has teamed up with Thedroidguy for a really fun, and educational contest to teach Android fans across the world about MHL technology. What is the MHL Consortium? The MHL Consortium consists of Nokia, Samsung, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba and established a standard for a wired ...

Toshiba Returns To Black Thanks To Smartphones

January 31st, 2011
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Wait! The first thing you're going to say after reading a tweet or the headline is that Toshiba doesn't make any US smartphones, and they don't currenty. However Toshiba has finally returned to the black after their wholesale chip business skyrocketed. Just how much of a sky rocket? Same time last year Toshiba reported a loss ...

Toshiba Targets Apple With Android Tablet Teaser Site

January 22nd, 2011
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Fresh off one of the most epic fails in Android tablet history, the Toshiba Folio, Tohsiba is coming out guns a blazing with their new 10" tablet.  We saw a production sample of the tablet at CES earlier this month which was running Froyo, although the Toshiba rep insisted it would release with Honeycomb. It hasn't ...

Toshiba Shows Off The Follow Up To Failio At CES

January 6th, 2011
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The Toshiba rep we spent sometime with yesterday at "Digital Experience" didn't want us to reference the Toshiba F0lio, Toshiba's failed attempt at an iPad killing 10" tablet, taken off the market after a month. When we asked if it was the Folio 2 or Follow up, the Toshiba rep said "No it's a totally new ...

Toshiba, LG and Sharp Pull Back On Google TV Plans For CES

December 20th, 2010

The New York Times is reporting this morning that Google TV manufacturing partners, Toshiba, LG and Sharp have pulled back on their plans to produce Google TV's and their plans to announce them at CES.  With less than 3 weeks to go until the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, these decisions are being ...

Are Viewsonic and Toshiba’s Tablet Woes Stemming From Nvidia?

December 19th, 2010

Staples pulled Viewsonic's tablet off the shelves today citing a "manufacturers defect" and with no further explanation to that. Inquiries to Viewsonic and Toshiba have not been returned as of yet.  Toshiba pulled their 10" Folio tablet off the shelves in the UK about a month ago. Both tablets are running Nvidia's Tegra 2 chipset ...

Samsung, Toshiba and Vizio joining the Google TV fun?

November 25th, 2010
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If Businessweek is correct then despite the problems Google TV is having with the networks, three consumer electronics giants will join team Google. TFTS is reporting that Samsung, Toshiba and Vizio will be showing new Google TV's at CES 2011, in Las Vegas.  We are already expecting a huge showing for Android in the form of ...