Slim Tablets From Japan

TOSHIBA EXCITE 10 LE 

Competition in the tablet computer market heats up again. Just a day before Apple introduced the New IPAD, on March 6 and Toshiba launch Excite 10 LE.

Digital and electronics vendors from Japan's claim dare to compete with New iPad.

With a sleek and slim body, Excite 10 LE has a feature that is quite complete.

Excite 10 LE has 10.1-inch wide-screen with the density reaches 1,280 x 800 pixels. To wrap the screen is the choice fell on Gorilla Glass.

Like most other tablet computers, Excite 10 LE runs on the platform of Android 3.2 aka Honeycomb. In its official statement, Toshiba promised Excite 10 LE owners will be able to update it to the Android 4.0 operating system aka Ice Cream Sandwich at the end of this year.

In terms of dimensions, the thickness of Excite 10 LE Only 7.7 millimeters with a weight of 553 grams. Compared with iPad 2, Excite 10 LE a little thinner and lighter. It makes this Toshiba tablet which is currently the thinnest tablet.

The camera on the back of tablet has a resolution of 5 megapixels. While the front of the camera has 2 megapixel camera with more functions intended for video calling.

Toshiba put a dual-core 1.2GHz processor Texas Instruments OMAP 4430, which is quite resilient and responsive to be used to surf in cyberspace. For connectivity, the Toshiba complement Excite 10 LE with GPS chip, gyroscope, Bluetooth 2.1 and Wi-Fi b/g/n. 

Excellent features that do not exist in the iPad is the existence of the port. Toshiba put up three ports at the same time, the port of micro-USB, micro-HDMI, and micro-SD. The three ports are more like a standard functions of personal computer instead post-PC devices. Toshiba also installed three such ports on the tablet Thrive, which gets pretty good reception.

Will Excite 10 LE will follow in the footsteps of its predecessor, Thrive? Not impossible. Moreover, 25-watt battery mounted on the Excite 10 LE can last for 8 hours, pretty good, but still less than the iPad battery, which can last for 10 hours.

Because of the emergence of Toshiba Excite 10 LE just a day before the New iPad was introduced, no wonder that people call Excite 10 LE as a serious challenger to New iPad. 

While Toshiba Excite 10 LE performance is quite alluring. Supported with complete features, Excite 10 LE is available in two memory options, which is 16 GB, which sold for U.S. $ 529, and 32 GB, for U.S. $ 599. *** [TECH JOURNAL | TECHRADAR | FIRMAN]

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