0.3-inch thick, weighing 558g, Android 3.2 Honeycomb – its a tab slimmer’s dream. But now Toshiba are looking to make it real, unveiling the size zero 10.1″ AT200 tablet at IFA Berlin.
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The thinnest ever 10.1″ LCD tablet (7.7mm) – slimmer than iPad 2 or Samsung Galaxy 10.1″ Tab – boasts a 25.7cm 280_800 display (LED backlight), 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 CPU, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 5 MP rear-facing camera, 2 MP (front).
As well, there’s more connectivity on the AT200 than you can shake a stick at – micro-USB, microSD (for expanded memory), and micro-HDMI ports (for multi-media, TV streaming), Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Adobe FlashPlayer 10.3 (yipee), decent sound credentials with 2 X 1.5W stereo speakers with ‘sound masking equalizer’ and a handy docking port also come as standard, and Toshiba Media Player, bien sur.
Toshiba’s follow up to AT100 (known as Thrive outside Australia) promises a very impressive 8 hour playback even when using video playback.
One reviewer at the IFA event called it “a serious competitor to Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1” and “a world away from the super chunky Thrive.”
“The new ultra-thin 25.7cm (10.1″) tablet Toshiba AT200, featuring Android 3.2, Honeycomb, is the latest in a long line of Toshiba products that are masterfully engineered”, said Marco Perino, General Manager, Toshiba DS Digital Products Division.
“With a thickness of only 7.7mm and a weight of just 558g, the elegant Toshiba AT200 is highly mobile yet extremely smart and powerful.”
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The Toshiba AT200 will be available in the fourth quarter of 2011 in Europe first off, no word yet when it will hit Oz, but its safe to say early 2012, at the earliest.
Tosh lovers can also upgrade Honeycomb 3.2 and get their teeth into Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich OS – fusing smartphones, tablets and PC software – once available.
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