Toshiba is preparing to launch a new Android tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and Google Android 3.x operating system. But the company actually launched a Tegra-powered Android 2.2 tablet last year. The Toshiba Folio 100 never made it to the states, but a small number were shipped in Europe. Unfortunately if you’re one of the few people who…
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Update: Good news everyone. It looks like NVIDIA is not dropping support for older Android tablets that were based on earlier Tegra 2 designs. The company will continue to make its code and drivers available for the ViewSonic G-Tablet, Notion Ink Adam, and other older Tegra 2-based devices. All that’s changed is that NVIDIA planned to phase out support…
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As they prepare to launch an expanded range of tablet devices in 2011, Toshiba has released a firmware update to their first Android tablet — the Folio 100. According to The Tech Blog, the new firmware improves the Folio 100′s responsiveness, eliminates UX lag, adds pinch-to-zoom, improves display clarity, and enhances audio and video playback. There’s still no official access…
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Toshiba is already selling its first Android tablet, the 10 inch Toshiba Folio 100 in some parts of the globe. Now DigiTimes reports that Toshiba plans to expand its tablet line in the first quarter of 2011. There will reportedly be three different models, including two 10.1 inch tablets and one 11.6 inch tablet. One will reportedly run Windows 7,…
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The Toshiba Folio 100 is a 10 inch tablet with Google Android 2.2 and a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor with support for HD video playback and 3D graphics acceleration. In terms of hardware, it’s pretty much state of the art stuff, but unfortunately it’s a bit limited on the software side since it comes without access to the…
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If you were hoping to pick up a Toshiba Folio 100 Android tablet this holiday season, you’d best be in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa, because The Wall Street Journal reports that Toshiba won’t begin offering new tablets in the US, Japan, and other countries until early 2011. The Folio 100, on the other will hit the aforementioned countries…
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Toshiba has launched a series of promotional videos for the upcoming Toshiba Folio 100 Android tablet. The Folio 100 features a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel capacitive touchscreen display, a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, Bluetooth, WiFi, and Google Android 2.2. The videos show off some of those features as well as a number of apps designed to…
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Toshiba still dhasn’t announced any launch plans for a US version of the Toshiba Folio Android tablet unveiled in Berlin earlier this month, but the folks at Wireless Goodness noticed that the tablet has made an appearance on the FCC web site. Actually, the Folio 100 shows up in a filing by Atheros, makers of the wireless chip inside the…
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What do you get if you take a Toshiba AC100 Android powered netbook, add a touchscreen display and remove the keyboard? Apparently what you get is the Toshiba Folio 100, an Android Tablet that’s seeing the first light of day at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin this week. Although we’ve been hearing rumors about the tablet for a…
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Toshiba hasn’t had much to say about its upcoming Android tablet so far, other than the fact that it is working on one. But this week the first purported images of the tablet hit the web, and now Notebook Italia says it’s obtained has detailed specs. So here’s the skinny. If the site’s information is correct, the tablet will be…
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