14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like makers of Android tablets aren't all able or willing to deliver their respective models as soon as possible, although the reason why Toshiba has suddenly decided to hold off on its Android 3.0 models is unknown.
With the Apple iPad selling left and right, it would make sense for smartphone and notebooks makers to produce their respective media slates as soon as possible.
Toshiba is one company that announced it would bring out such a model, running the newest version of the Android OS, 3.0 (Honeycomb), during the second quarter of the ongoing year (2011).
In other words, the Android 3.0 Toshiba tablet, a 10.1-inch, Tegra 2-powered electronic, was supposed to become available for order before the end of June.
Unfortunately, at least according to a report, this will not happen, as Toshiba took the decision of postponing launch until the third quarter.
"It'll be here at the very end of summer," said Ken Chan, the leader of Toshiba's UK division, according to the folks over at RegHardware.
The company official proved quite tight-lipped when it came to giving some actual reasons as to why this has happened.
One possible motive could be, as the report says, that Toshiba just figured it may as well hold off on the launch until NVIDIA delivered a certain, quad-core Tegra 2 successor known as Kal El.
Still, what is at least as likely is that ASUS is not the only outfit out there suffering from component supply shortages.
Granted, ASUS did say that the Ee Pad Transformer was unavailable because demand was too high, but the fact remains that only the month of June and beyond will really allow for strong shipments, provided no new problems arise by then that is.
Chan did, at least, say that the estimated time of arrival was late summer, so the wait, at least, won't be excruciatingly long.