Toshiba announces its new 13.3-inch Android Tablet

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Cem Avcı

Very soon, Toshiba will introduce its new 13.3-inch Android tablet called the Excite to us. The new android tablet comes with a 1,600 by 900 pixels capacitive display, a tad thicker than 10mm, a full size SD card slot, a microUSB port plus a microHDMI port and a battery which can run up to 13 hours.

What’s more, it includes a quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, 1GB RAM, 32GB or 64GB onboard storage, a 1.3-megapixel front facing camera and a five megapixel one at the back, SRS Surround functionality, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich but no 3G/4G functionality.

Read Toshiba’s press release below.

TOSHIBA SET TO EXCITE THE TABLET MARKET WITH NEW 10-, 13- AND 7.7-INCH TABLETS

Toshiba Introduces Three New Android-powered Tablets, Giving Consumers More Choice

IRVINE, Calif. – Apr. 10, 2012 – Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced the expansion of its Excite™ family of Android™-powered tablets with three new display sizes – 13.3-inch, 10.1-inch and 7.7-inch. The new Excite tablets boast thin-and-light designs, brilliant displays, quad-core performance as well as a full range of essential ports and smart features.

“One size does not fit all, so we are carefully considering how and where people are using tablets and designing form factors to best suit various needs,” said Carl Pinto, vice president of product development, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Digital Products Division. “With amazingly thin and light designs, our new Excite family of tablets continues to incorporate what consumers have come to love about Toshiba tablets: essential ports for a more complete tablet computing experience plus durability that ensures they can go the distance.”

Powered to Perform, Built to Last and Designed to Excite

The three new tablets – Excite 10, Excite 13 and Excite 7.7 – feature elegant and sturdy aluminum shells and scratch-resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass displays, making them not only stylish, but also durable. Powered by Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, which builds on the things people love most about Android – the tablets offer a simplified UI, easy multitasking, customizable home screens, resizable widgets and a full suite of familiar Google™ mobile services applications – as well as powerful new ways of communicating and sharing.
From scrolling and swiping the web, to the fast action of the latest games, the Excite tablets’ all-new NVIDIA® Tegra™ 3 processors deliver amazing multitasking, web, gaming and video. This innovative mobile processor features the world’s only 4-PLUS-1™ mobile quad-core CPU, providing users outstanding performance for even the most demanding applications. Apps run faster, games are played at console-quality, HD video is smoother, plus it features a unique 5th battery-saver core to handle everyday apps – extending battery life.

Each tablet is equipped with a 5-megapixel camera on the back, along with a 2-megapixel front-facing shooter for convenient photography, video capture and chat. The tablets also include stereo speakers with exclusive sound enhancements by Toshiba and SRS® Labs, as well as Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® connectivity.

Excite 10: Smart, Speedy, Durable

An all-around tablet designed for home and away, the Excite 10 tablet delivers an exceptional visual experience, featuring a bright, high definition 10.1-inch diagonal AutoBrite™ LED Backlit display with 1280×800 resolution and 10-finger multi-touch support, making it an ideal choice for web browsing, reading, games and apps. Measuring just 0.35 inches thin and weighing just 1.32 pounds, the Excite 10 tablet is extremely portable and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life and seven days of stand-by.

Delivering more performance than previous generation tablets, the Excite 10 tablet is powered by a quad-core NVIDIA® Tegra™ 3 processor with GeForce graphics and 1GB of RAM, opening up new possibilities for everyday multi-purpose use and next generation mobile games. Built to do more than the average tablet, users can enjoy easy syncing and sharing between all of their favorite devices, with a selection of built-in ports, including Micro USB, Micro HDMI® and a full-size SD card slot.

Excite 13: More Screen for More of Everything

Delivering more screen real estate than any other tablet on the market, the Excite 13 tablet offers a big, bright, higher resolution display, while delivering more room for everything else – from sharing photos and web browsing to playing games and watching movies with a group. Ideally suited for the home, from growing families to empty nesters, the Excite 13 tablet is only 0.4 inches thin and weighs 2.2 poundsviii, so it is still easy to carry.

With a 13.3-inch diagonal AutoBrite™ LED Backlit display with 10-finger touch support, the tablet boasts a cinematic 16:9 aspect ratio and 1600×900 native resolution, perfect for watching HD movies and videos. A four-speaker sound system with exclusive sound enhancements by Toshiba and SRS Labs delivers amazing audio and an included tablet stand makes it easy to prop up on a table, kitchen countertop or coffee table to share videos with friends and family.

Not only great for movies, the Excite 13 tablet can power through the latest games and multitask with ease. Powered by the quad-core NVIDIA Tegra™ 3 mobile processor with GeForce graphics and 1GB of memory, the large display tablet offers smooth, console-quality gaming plus the performance for high definition entertainment. Extremely power efficient, the Excite 13 tablet is targeted to deliver up to 13 hours of battery lifex and seven days of stand-by. The Excite 13 tablet includes Micro USB, Micro HDMI® ports and a full-size SD card slot for syncing and sharing content.

Excite 7.7: A Brilliant AMOLED Display

Toshiba’s first tablet to feature an AMOLED display, the Excite 7.7 tablet is ideal for consumers on the go and is perfect for the mobile gamer and movie lover alike. The tablet’s brilliant 7.7-inch diagonal display brings games, movies, books and photos to life like never before with rich colors, deep contrast and amazing sharpness. Extremely thin at just 0.3 inches and light at only 13.4 ounces, Excite 7.7 fits easily into a bag or jacket.

Exceptionally powerful and able to tackle the latest games and HD content, the Excite 7.7 tablet is powered by a quad-core NVIDIA® Tegra™ 3 processor with GeForce graphics and 1GB of memory. The tablet includes a Micro USB port and a Micro SD card slot for syncing and sharing content.

The Convenience of Android and Exclusive Toshiba Apps
The new Excite tablets include a full suite of familiar Google™ Mobile Service applications, including Google Play™, YouTube™, Gmail™ and Google Maps™. Additionally, the tablets come pre-loaded with a useful mix of Toshiba software and third-party applications, including TOSHIBA Book Place, which offers more than 3 million e-books, the TOSHIBA Media Player that supports content sharing, TOSHIBA File Manager, as well as Netflix™ and Zinio™, the ultimate app for magazine lovers and more.

Pricing and Availability
The Excite 10 tablet will be available for purchase on May 6, 2012 for $449.99 MSRP for the 16GB model, $529.99 MSRP for the 32GB model and $649.99 MSRP for the 64GB model.

The Excite 7.7 tablet will be available for purchase on June 10, 2012 for $499.99 MSRP for the 16GB model and $579.99 MSRP for the 32GB model.

The Excite 13 tablet will be available for purchase on June 10, 2012 for $649.99 MSRP for the 32GB model and $749.99 MSRP for the 64GB model.

These tablets will be available at major retailers, e-tailers and direct from Toshiba at ToshibaDirect.com.

Asus Transformer How To: Automatic Saving of Antipaper Notes HD to External SDCard

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Honur Dulger

Since I take notes in class and there is always uncertainty of having to completely wipe your device at any given moment and lose everything, I felt it would be in my best interest to keep my notes stored on the external hard drive.

I couldn’t find the option to do so, so I made a script that will create a folder on the SD card called Antipaper/Notebooks and then move your notebooks there and delete the original folder (/data/data/com.pancerola.and.antipaper.notes/files/) and turn it into a symbolic link pointing to /Removable/MicroSD/Antipaper/Notebooks so that all future notebooks are stored there instead.

MANUALLY BACKUP YOUR NOTEBOOKS LOCATED AT /data/data/com.pancerola.and.antipaper.notes/files/ BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT THIS. MY SCRIPT HAS TO DELETE THE FOLDER TO MAKE A SYMBOLIC LINK

Troubleshooting: Sometimes the files folder doesn’t want to be deleted, you may have to delete it manually in root explorer and then run the script again. If your notebooks are blank, that means they didn’t copy properly, copy the backups to the Antipaper/Notebooks folder on the SDCard. I’m asking you to make a backup for a reason.

Installation Instructions:

Using Script Manager:

Open the file, run as root and click run. If all goes well you shouldn’t see that the link failed to be created.

/dirty scripting

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Here is a new Amazon tablet: $ 199

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Honur Dulger

After months of conjecture, it is here: Amazon’s tablet, the $199 Kindle Fire, was unveiled Wednesday.

Smaller sized and cheaper than Apple’s major iPad, the Kindle Fire has a 7-inch screen and runs on a heavily customized version of Google’s Android operating-system. The tablet offers Wi-Fi connectivity, but no 3G or other cellular connection. It also lacks a camera and microphone, two features found in most rival tablets.

The Kindle Fire has a 7-inch IPS display with 1024-pixel by 600-pixel resolution, plus a dual-core processor, 8GB of storage and 7.5 hours of video playback. The Fire has a USB port for file transfers, but no cameras and no microphone. The tablet measures 7.5-by-4.7-by-0.45 inches, and weighs 14.6 ounces.

But this tablet is not supposed to be about tech features. It’s intended to be a dead-simple slate for consuming Amazon content. The interface has a search bar on top, which could search locally, in the cloud, and on the Web. Below that is a strip of content categories, followed by a stylized list of recent content. On the bottom of the screen, users can pin their favorite apps, books, and other media.

Amazon’s digital storefronts include e-books, movies, Television shows, music, and applications. Several magazine publishers are also bringing their periodicals to the tablet. Although the Kindle Fire doesn’t offer much internal storage, any content purchased from Amazon may be stored online in cloud storage for free. There’s no mention of Google services, so don’t expect Google Maps or the Android Market to be built in.

For browsing the Web, the Kindle Fire utilizes a new browser called “Amazon Silk,” which taps Amazon’s cloud computing services to render pages faster. An e-mail app is also built-in, with support for multiple mail services in a single inbox.

Amazon says the Silk browser resides both on the Fire and on its own servers. For each page request, Silk divvies up the work between the tablet and the cloud. The result, according to Amazon, is faster page loads and lower latency.

The Kindle Fire costs $199, including a free month of Amazon Prime, and ships November 15. Amazon’s taking pre-orders on its Website.

New Kindle E-Readers

Amazon isn’t abandoning its E-Ink readers with present day tablet announcement. Amazon also announced new Kindles along with the Kindle Fire tablet.

The Kindle Touch uses the same infrared touch system found in Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Sony’s touch screen e-readers. Amazon is touting what it calls the “EasyReach” system with this Kindle, which lets users tap a short horizontal strip along the top of the screen to call up the menu, a narrow vertical strip along the left side to go back one page, and the rest of the screen to go to the next page.

The Kindle Touch costs $99 with Special Offers–a service that displays ads and deals on the device’s home page–and $139 without them. A 3G model will cost $149. Amazon’s taking pre-orders now, ahead of a November 21 ship date.

In addition to the touchscreen Kindle, Amazon will launch a non-touch Kindle with Special Offers for $79. This model drops the physical keyboard of previous Kindles in favor of a small set of buttons on the bottom bezel, along with the usual left and right bezel buttons for page turns. Amazon says this model is 30 percent lighter than previous Kindles. Without Special deals, this Kindle costs $109. Both editions ship today.

: Amazon Kindle Fire photo gallery

Very Big Android tablet: Megapad

Posted on September 21, 2011 by John Pires

One amazing DIY-er pieced together their own 23-inch touchscreen display device that runs a non-Honeycomb version of Android and only price $US600 to build. Current somewhere between a tablet as well as an all-in-one PC, Martin Drashkov thinks the Megapad may go mainstream.

The technology is built on and around a standard computer monitor and behaves more or less like an Android device would, except that it’s constantly propped up and there’s no mouse or keyboard. But where would a device like this go mainstream? Using the touchscreen functionality of a PC while seated at a desk is an ergonomic headache. It could live in a kitchen, or maybe even a bedroom, but that’s hardly mainstream. Save to be used by retail and marketing professionals, to whom custom solutions already exist, this appears more like a pointless, but very neat, proof-of-concept.

Fujitsu’s Arrows Android Honeycomb Tablet MaySupply In The Bathtub

Posted on September 11, 2011 by John Pires

Fujitsu. It’s an organization that has strayed from the normal buyer space lately, however they are definitely crashing the party with a new LTE tablet. The “Arrows Tab LTE (F-01D)” is slated to land first in Japan this October, bringing LTE to a market that has do well on advanced phone system. We believe that it will not be long before it passes to other markets as well.

However the LTE inside is only half of what makes this particular slate so lustworthy. There’s a 10.1″ display, a dual-core CPU and Android 3.2, with an 8.6mm body that weighs just 565g. The 7000mAh battery is also impressive, but it’s the external padding that really wows us. The 11.3mm-thick model has an IPX5/IPX7 waterproof design enables users to enjoy video and mobile TV even while relaxing in the bathtub (seriously!), and the “hand gesture control” enables operations to be performed with simple hand gestures without touching the device – perfect for checking recipes or performing other tasks while the user’s hands are wet or messy.

In conjunction with the launch of these inaugural Xi-compatible tablets, DOCOMO will offer four new broadband applications, including the popular Hulu and Qik Video services, which are specially suited to Xi’s high-spec mobile video/TV, communications and online gaming capabilities. Prices has yet to be announced, but having a waterproof tablet is likely to demand a price premium.

HTC Flyer 4G you can buy at Videotron

Posted on September 8, 2011 by John Pires

Videotron has extended their tablet pc lineup and that we think they are the 1st carrier in Canada to offer the “HTC Flyer 4G“. The Wi-Fi only version was released last month and only sold through retail store The Source. Videotron has priced this Android 2.3 tablet that’s capable of reaching peak download speeds of 14.4 Mbps at a decreased price of $499.95, or $649.95 outright. The Flyer 4G has a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon processor, 7-inch screen, 5 megapixel camera with a 1.3 mp front-facing camera. This also appears to come with the “Scribe” pen, but they have a bit more fun with the name and say it’s a “magic pen”. The Scribe retails $79.95

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