14 DAY TRIAL // Toshiba did not let itself stay too far behind the other companies with tablets up for sale, though its own product had some issues to contend whith, some which, fortunately, have supposedly been fixed at last.
The media tablet market is one that most definitely took the IT industry by storm, at least as far as the laptop market goes.
Being large enough to qualify more as mobile computers than portable consumer electronics, tablets have been none too kind to those devices that have been around for longer.
Just a short time ago, for instance, it was discovered that ASUS had decided to make fewer Eee PC netbooks that it used to. This is just one symptom of how overall sales of netbooks, and even laptops overall, have been slowing down.
No doubt the reason for this is how slates have reached a sort of standard price point, one that the Toshiba Thrive actually goes slightly below. Back in July, the product started to ship, its price tag being $480.
Still, as it sometimes occurs to mobile devices, there were some issues that plagued the electronic once it finally started to ship.
One of the problems was that the Thrive had some trouble returning from sleep mode, something that can become understandably irksome in a short time, especially knowing that slates are supposed to be always-on gadgets, more or less.
Finally, it seems that a fix can be downloaded from the company's official website, one that might just do more than cover this shortcoming that should not have been there in the first place.
According to the report, one can expect the Thrive to also gain some enhancements to the multimedia playback capabilities, though it is unclear just what this means.
Opening the Toshiba Service Station app on the tablet is all that customers need do in order for the download to be carried out.