Toshiba Set To Contest Tablet Market With New 10-, 13- and 7.7-Inch Slates

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD) has announced expansion of its Excite family of Android-powered tablets with three new display sizes 13.3-inch, 10.1-inch and 7.7-inch. The new Excite tablets boast thin-and-light designs, brilliant displays, and quad-core performance as well as a full range of essential ports and smart features.

“One size does not fit all, so we are carefully considering how and where people are using tablets and designing form factors to best suit various needs,” says Carl Pinto, vice president of product development, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Digital Products Division. “With amazingly thin and light designs, our new Excite family of tablets continues to incorporate what consumers have come to love about Toshiba tablets: essential ports for a more complete tablet computing experience plus durability that ensures they can go the distance.”

Powered to Perform, Built to Last

The three new tablets Excite 10, Excite 13 and Excite 7.7 feature sturdy aluminum shells and scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass displays, making them not only stylish, but durable. Powered by Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, which builds on things people love most about Android the tablets offer a simplified UI, easy multitasking, customizable home screens, resizable widgets and a full suite of familiar Google mobile services applications – as well as powerful new ways of communicating and sharing.

The Excite tablets’ NVIDIA Tegra 3 processors deliver power to support multitasking, Web, gaming and video performance, featuring what Toshiba claims is the world’s only 4-PLUS-1 mobile quad-core CPU making apps run faster, gameplay at console-quality, and smoother HD video, plus it features a unique 5th battery-saver core to handle everyday apps extending battery life.

Each tablet is equipped with a 5-megapixel camera on the back, along with a 2-megapixel front-facing shooter for photography, video capture and chat. The tablets also include stereo speakers with sound enhancements by Toshiba and SRS Labs, as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.

Excite 10

An all-around tablet designed for home and away, the Excite 10 tablet features a 10.1-inch diagonal AutoBrite LED Backlit display with 1280×800 resolution (compared with the iPad 1 and 2’s 1024 x 768) and 10-finger multi-touch support. Measuring 0.35 inches in thickness and weighing 1.32 pounds, the Excite 10 tablet delivers up to a claimed 10 hours of battery life and seven days of stand-by, and is powered by a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor with Nvidia GeForce graphics and 1GB of RAM, plus a selection of built-in ports, including Micro USB, Micro HDMI and a full-size SD card slot.

Excite 13: More Screen

Delivering more screen real estate than any other tablet on the market, the Excite 13 tablet offers a big, bright, higher resolution display, while measuring 0.4 inches thick and weighing 2.2 pounds.

With a 13.3-inch diagonal AutoBrite LED Backlit display with 10-finger touch support, the tablet features a cinematic 16:9 aspect ratio and 1600×900 native resolution, plus a four-speaker sound system with sound enhancements by Toshiba and SRS Labs and an included tablet stand that makes it easy to prop up on a table, kitchen countertop or coffee table.

The Excite 13 tablet is powered by the quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 mobile processor with GeForce graphics and 1GB of memory, and is targeted to deliver up to 13 hours of battery life and seven days of stand-by. I/O connectivity includes Micro USB, Micro HDMI ports and a full-size SD card slot for syncing and sharing content.

Excite 7.7 With AMOLED Display

Toshiba’s first tablet to feature an AMOLED display, the Excite 7.7 tablet isxtremely thin at just 0.3 inches and light at only 13.4 ounces, fitting easily into a bag or jacket. Powered by a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor with GeForce graphics and 1GB of memory, the smallest Exite tablet still includes a Micro USB port and a Micro SD card slot.

Both Android and Proprietary Toshiba Apps

The new Excite tablets include a full suite of familiar Google Mobile Service applications, including Google Play, YouTube, Gmail and Google Maps. Additionally, the tablets come pre-loaded with a useful mix of Toshiba software and third-party applications, including Toshiba Book Place, which offers more than 3 million e-books, the Toshiba Media Player that supports content sharing, Toshiba File Manager, as well as Netflix and Zinio, the ultimate app for magazine lovers and more.

The Excite 10 tablet will be available for purchase at the beginning of May 2012 for $449.99 MSRP9 for the 16GB model, $529.99 MSRP for the 32GB model and $649.99 MSRP for the 64GB model.

The Excite 7.7 tablet will be available for purchase at the beginning of June 2012 for $499.99 MSRP for the 16GB model and $579.99 MSRP for the 32GB model.

The Excite 13 tablet will be available for purchase at the beginning of June 2012 for $649.99 MSRP for the 32GB model and $749.99 MSRP for the 64GB model.

These tablets will be available at major resellers, e-tailers and direct from Toshiba at:
http://ToshibaDirect.com