14 DAY TRIAL // With just a day to go until the IFA 2011 fair opens its gates for the public, Toshiba held a press conference to announce its newest and most exciting tablet device yet, the 7.7mm thin AT200.
Shortly after the announcement we had the chance to get our eager hands on the device and we were more than impressed with what we have seen.
Just as you would expect, the first thing that one notices when picking the AT200 in your hands is just how slim the tablet actually is, the 7.7mm depth making it 1.1mm thinner than Apple iPad 2 and more than 5mm thinner than the original iPad.
More importantly, the thin and light design is accompanied by strong performance, since at the heart of the slate stands an TI OMAP 4430 Cortex A9 dual-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz and Android Honeycomb 3.2.
The tablet that we got our hands on at IFA paired the TI SoC with 64GB of storage space, but the final version can also feature smaller solid state drives.
As far as the 10.1-inch display installed in the tablet is concerned, this sports a 1280x800 resolution and is flanked by an average sized bezel.
The rest of the Toshiba AT200 specifications list includes a 5MP rear facing camera, a 2MP font facing snapper, Micro HDMI, Micro USB, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, while the built-in battery can provide power for an estimated 8 hours.
Right now, Toshiba wasn’t able to provide us with an exact launch date for the AT200, but the tablet is expected to become available in the fourth quarter of 2011.
All in all, I would say that Toshiba has one impressive device on its hands, which is definitely a world away from its previous tablet effort, the bulky Thrive.
