{"id":709,"date":"2011-06-27T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T15:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2011-06-27T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:26:35","slug":"toshiba-hopes-thrive-tablets-name-is-prophetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/toshiba-hopes-thrive-tablets-name-is-prophetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba Hopes Thrive Tablet’s Name Is Prophetic"},"content":{"rendered":"
I was honestly surprised to see Toshiba’s upcoming tablet, the Thrive, at Pepcom’s Digital Experience. To be honest, I’d forgotten it was announced. Now that I’ve handled it, I can’t get it out of my head.<\/p>\n
The Thrive (release date unknown) looks like a typical 10.1″ tablet. Running a mostly virgin copy of Android Honeycomb 3.1 with a Tegra 2 under the hood, it has\u00a0 the usual accelerometer, multi-touch, and front and rear cameras along with having Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Little flourishes include bundling Music beta by Google<\/em> and including Flash support. Then there are the unique bits, and they’re quite nice.<\/p>\n For one thing, the Thrive has a built-in GPS, as well as a compass. I’m unsure of any other tablet without a cell radio that does GPS, so that makes a real added value. With Google Navigation free, you essentially get a 10.1″ free GPS for your car and without marrying yourself to a cell provider. Not a bad deal at all.<\/p>\n Another feature I absolutely love are the ports. While the Thrive has a proprietary docking connector, and a bunch of planned connections to use it, that’s not the end of it. The Thrive also has an HDMI port built right in, an SD card slot (not MicroSD \u2013 the larger sort), and here’s the kicker \u2013 a USB Mini and a full USB 2.0 port, the latter with USB hosting. That’s right, the Thrive supports external storage.<\/p>\n To accommodate this, Toshiba added a great file browser that manages content and media. We have it demo’ed in the video below and it’s great.<\/p>\n