Osawa reports, “Toshiba is among many electronics manufacturers around the world looking to ride the wave of demand that has swelled with the iPad.”
MacDailyNews Take: Bottom feeders.
Osawa reports, “Samsung Electronics Co. Thursday unveiled the Galaxy Tab, which also runs on the Android software. Sharp Corp. in July showed off prototypes of a tablet it hopes will be the “iPad made in Japan,” and plans to officially unveil the new product later this month. ‘The market for tablet devices like the iPad is attracting a lot of consumer attention,’ said the Toshiba spokeswoman.”
MacDailyNews Take: Thanks for the newsflash, genius.
Osawa reports, “The Folio 100 is equipped with a 10.1-inch multi-touch display and an embedded webcam [1.3-megapixel]… Toshiba expects the model that can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi networks to sell for 399 euros (US$500). The company has yet to decide when it will launch another model with 3G connectivity.”
MacDailyNews Note: The Folio 100 weighs 760 grams and measures 28 centimeters by 18 cm by 1.4 cm. The processor is a Nvidia Tegra 2 and the device has 16GB of built-in storage, with optional SD card expansion. Toshiba claims “Battery life: 7 hours (65% web browsing, 10% video playback, 25% standby).” Apple’s iPad has a 9.7-inch screen, weighs 680 grams (Wi-Fi) / 730 grams (Wi-Fi + 3G) and measures 24.28 cm by 18.97 cm by 1.34 cm. iPad is powered by Apple’s A4 processor and comes in 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB capacities with prices starting at $499. iPad battery life offers “up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music and up to 9 hours of surfing the web using 3G data network.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: They can’t roll out the derivative failures fast enough. So what happens if Apple’s patents are finally upheld and Android is found to contain all manner of Apple’s intellectual property? What about all of this half-assed dreck littering uninformed consumers’ bags and pockets?
You would have thought folio was fail from Palm.
Probably means fail in some other language …
iPad bitches!!!
toshiba gets dissed like this too:
It sounds like they aren’t very confident in their product when they aren’t sure if they will release it in the US.
I’m not convinced there is a tablet market, rather than an iPad market. Despite there being MP3 players, I’m not sure it makes sense to see them competing with the iPod (any more than dog food competes with cat food).
And, toshiba, it’s not the “market for tablet devices like iPad” that’s attracting consumer interest, it’s the iPad that’s doing that.
Glad MDN posted the specs. The iPad gets 10 hours of video viewing (mentioned by many reviewers). Toshiba claims 7 hours, but that is with 42 min of video, and almost 105 min in power-save mode? Talk about not comparing apples to Apples!
Funny, how they now all look like the iPad. Before no company had a clue about the form factor of a tablet that would catch people’s imagination. Now it’s all copy, copy, copy.
Next up — a One iPad Per Child program with crank-powered iPads, building minds and arms.
i really don’t understand why these companies are so stupid but yet still make so much money, if they really do or just keep getting bailed out.
I really have more respect for Palm and RIM because they at least try to build from the ground up. Even though they fail miserably a lot of times, they’re at least able to fail at their own demise, rather than relying on someone else’s shit software. Look at dell, they are going to fail twice relying on another companies OS.
Android is shit people, it was a nice thought, nice things here and there but all together it’s shit like McDonalds, very few nice things here and there, you think it’s good at first, but then down the road it was a bad idea, overall just bad.
At least M$ is being frozen out of the OS for tablet market. But to not sell the device in their home market?
Looks craptastic.
Let’s all hope that Toshiba doesn’t have the same “melting” issues as with some of their other products.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20015470-260.html?tag=topTechContentWrap;editorPicks
And surprise…who is going to be the most secure against hacking and exploitive apps?
Is that why corporate America is jumping on board so fast?
Is that why PC shipments are down?
Is that why sweat is running down Ballmer’s bald head?
OK, so the ‘tablet’ PC was a FAIL for 10 years. Now everyone and their dog are pushing out a rush job clone of the iPad “before the end of the year.”
I PREDICT an historic series of FAILed devices amidst this stampede of wannabes. It’s going to be shockingly hilarious. It’s going to be The Year Of Zune on toast, with all the wannabe makers being the toast. I also see this mess giving Android yet another black eye.
Also notice how Toshiba are not selling their wannabe in techno-savvy parts of the world. They’re counting on The Sucker Effect, customers who don’t know any better. It’s called PARASITISM. Strange how Microsoft never thought of that.
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@Derek Currie
There are tech savvi people in Europe and Toshiba plan to sell there or are you saying Europeans are stupid?
What part of the world do you hail from? If you say America, well you’re all brain boxes there. Two terms of G W Bush, need I say more on the stupidity of a nation?
@ Eeek
No one is saying Euro’s aren’t tech savvy. Just odd that Toshiba doesn’t want to take on the iPad on Apple’s home turf. Doesn’t show much confidence in their offering in my opinion.
Bringing in Bush to the equation is stupid. I think most people would gladly have him back rather than the lightweight we have now.
@ Eeek
Chill!
There’s so much to say about the really restrictive Android Marketplace who can and cant access it, bad battery live, poor performance of these contenders. Would take pages of typing.
But can sum it up simply by the Hellan Hays line at the end of the 20th Century Fox live action movie Anastasia…
Go Home… The Party is over!
The next person who hijacks this thread and makes it political deserves a punch in the face. I came here to read about iPad knockoffs, not what people think about American leadership. If I want to hear or read that drivel, there are many other sources for that…..
Why would you buy one when the iPad costs the same price and gives you much better support, apps, peripherals, ecosystem, etc?
Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada, is one of the world’s leading statesmen.
Wasn’t taking over a thread for political purposes, just replying to a comment about non tech savvy Europeans.
These cheap-ass knock-offs without the Apple chip, without the magical software are no cheaper than the iPad. So why would anyone buy one? Because they hate Apple for making them feel jealous and stupid?
You should read comments around the web about this and the samsung. People saying they had parents wanting an iPad but they are holding out till something better comes out and hoping the samsung or toshiba will be that. People falling all over themselves over the tegra chip.
People don’t know good stuff if it hit them in the head.
I just hate that all these companies try to look like the iPad but 6 months ago they didn’t know what to do. It’s like ms all they do is play copy everyone else.
Oh yea as far as bush well just because we may know tech does not mean we arecsmart enough to elect good peoplecto offices in high places. We went from bad to horrible.
But anyway We all know the iPad will outsell all of these and they will be has beens. The only thing about the 7in samsung I’d like in an iPad is the 7in screen for watching movies at the gym while I’m working out. My iPhone is a tad small for that and Ipad is bigger then I want to carry around the gym.
Journalists they ain’t!
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Tablets can “run the Android Operating System”, or “the Android Operating System can run on a tablet”, but a “tablet can’t run on the Android Operating System” any more than a cart can pull a horse. Asinine idiots… *sigh*
The FOOlio 100 should be fine for those that want an almost-like-an-iPad experience (but not really). Funny thing happened when my friend came over to show off his new Droid X. His words were, “It’s better than your iPhone…” and “Android is better than iOS,…” but his body language said that he was trying to convince himself that. Then he fumbled trying navigate through his apps. Apple gets it. Computing on a desktop or a handheld shouldn’t be difficult.