Toshiba has upped its tablet gambit with its announcement of the super-thin AT200 at IFA 2011. The new tablet, which is just 7.7mm thick, is even thinner than the size-zero Samsung Galaxy 10.1, and weighs just 558g.
Until someone announces something fractionally slimmer, this gets the crown as the world's thinnest and lightest 10.1-inch tablet.
brightcove : 1149474821001The waif like build is immediately noticeable as soon as you lift up the Toshiba AT200, and it's ideal for slipping into a bag making it a great portable device. There's little curvature in the chassis, and the flat body is reminiscent of the iPhone 4, giving it the same compact feel.
Interestingly, this does make it feel slightly chunkier than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and iPad 2, both of which are thinner at the edges where you hold the device, but are thicker in the centre.
The tablet ships with Android 3.2, and is fully upgradable to Ice Cream Sandwich when it hits. There's a dual core 1.2GHz processor, with the ever popular nVidiaTegra 2 chip shunned in favour of a dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 and there's also a healthy 1GB of RAM, and 64GB of internal memory included.
The AT200 performed well in our brief hands-on test, with the tablet chained to a promotional stand. However, opening multiple web pages, and scrolling quickly through information did reveal some lag in page rendering, which we hope will be ironed out by Toshiba AT200 UK release date - late 2011.
The screen is a par-for-the-course 1280x800 panel, which delivers great detail, but with Samsung announcing new lines of their Galaxy Tab 7.7" with AMOLED displays, those who love to watch movies and media will have their eyes drawn elsewhere.
While Toshiba offers little above and beyond the majority of the competition when it comes to watching and enjoying movies, it does have a trick up its sleeve which could make loading them onto your tablet.
The AT200 boasts a myriad of connectivity optionsincluding micro-USB, micro-HDMI and micro-SD. This will be a huge plus point for anyone who's frustrated by many tablets' inability to deal with your files, and this makes it an interesting choice for home users as well as the business buyer.
Those who love to watch online video will also be pleased to know that the AT200 comes pre-installed with Flash 10.3, and Toshiba is adding sound enhancement technology, to boost the internal speaker quality. It's no Dolby Surround Sound, of course, but it does help when people gather round to watch a YouTube video.
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