Sep082011

What do you think about the Toshiba Thrive Tablet?

RAINMAKER asks:

What do you guys/gals think about the Toshiba Thrive? I have been searching for a Tablet for a while now and I have heard great things about it.

This Tablet has: 1 x Hi-Speed USB – 4 pin USB Type A 1 x audio / video – HDMI 1 x Hi-Speed USB – 4 pin mini-USB Type B 1 x docking / port replicator 1 x headphones – output – mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm.

Also it has Android 3.1 (Honeycomb and it is preloaded with:
Clock, Calculator, Quickoffice, Virtual Keyboard, Google Talk, Gmail, YouTube, Adobe Flash Player, Swype, Google eBooks, Android Browser, Android Market, Android Music Player, Gallery, Google Music, Google Places, Google Latitude, Google Search, Google Calendar, Google Calendar Sync, Google Contacts, Google Contacts Sync, Google Voice Search, LogMeIn Ignition, Hardwood Backgammon, Hardwood Euchre, Hardwood Solitaire, Hardwood Hearts, Hardwood Spades, MOG Music, Printer Share, Need for Speed Shift, Toshiba App Place, Toshiba Book Place, Toshiba Start Place, Toshiba Media Player, Toshiba Service Station, Toshiba File Manager.

You could also expand the memory, for 50 bucks you could buy a 32 GB SD card and the battery is replaceable.

I currently have an iMac 27 inch computer and a HP laptop. My work computer is a Lenovo Intel I5.
Thanks for your info.



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Susendeep Dutta

September 10, 2011

The above question was previously asked recently.Well here’s the info about it –

For user reviews click on the link below-

http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/toshiba-thrive-8gb/4505-3126_7-34776757.html?tag=rnav

Although all Toshiba products are good but they are suffering in tablet
market.Recently,this tablet had issues that it it used to wake up automatically
from sleep mode without user’s consent.But Toshiba had fixed this issue.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/03/toshiba-rolls-out-fix-for-thrive-tablets-sleep-problems/

For an exhaustive review click on the link below.It has ample videos and photos
attached with the review-

http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/22/toshiba-thrive-review/

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Aibek

September 13, 2011

Also check out following two videos.

Toshiba Thrive tablet hands-on video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LTWBK3X9Wo

Hands-on: Toshiba Thrive Android tablet – Is it better than the iPad 2?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxkuZzVwRv0