Toshiba builds an iPad competitors. The Folio 100 has a 10.1 inch display, weighs 760 grams and runs on Android 2.2.
Toshiba manager Marco Perino on Thursday showed a prototype at the IFA and announced the start of the production model for the fourth quarter of 2010.
The first will bring to market a 430 € Toshiba expensive version with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 16 GB of internal memory.A UMTS version (530 €) should give it as well. Full-HD video to run smoothly, according to Toshiba and can be transmitted via a docking station to TV.
As usual in Android 2.2 devices, you can zoom in using multi-touch gestures and play Flash content. The battery should last for seven hours with a cargo operation, the webcam enables video conferencing on the front.
On Google's Android Market Folio users can not access - this aim so far only on smartphones. Toshiba wants to customize Android apps to the resolution of the Tablets (1024 x 600), and provide for its own software shop ("Marketplace"). Also an SDK for developers to give it.
Toshiba focuses on recent Folio with Tablet Primus, Apple iPad: Weight and size are similar, and making phone calls over mobile networks is also planned, unlike Samsung's Android-Tablet, the 800-euro.
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