Toshiba Thrive 10.1-Inch 32 GB Android Tablet AT105-T1032 Black on sale

JAG Say: Toshiba Thrive 10.1-Inch 32 GB Android Tablet AT105-T1032 Black
Super Innovative, Best tablet yet!, 2011-07-08
This review is for: Toshiba Thrive 10.1-Inch 32 GB Android Tablet AT105-T1032 Black
I've had the 16gb Thrive for 3 days now. The Thrive is in my opinion the best tablet available. The things that set it apart from other tablets are: Removable battery, Full size HDMI port, Full size USB 2.0 port as well as a mini USB port. All on board with no dock or adapters necessary. You can take your SD card right out of your camera and plug it in to the Thrive ( Handles up to 128 GB SDXC, what?!!) . Toshiba was smart enough to include a file manager that makes it super easy to move data or media between the tablet and SD card or external hard drive, etc. Running Honeycomb 3.1 right out of the box as well. The wifi is the best I have seen, better than any device in my house and I have a lot. Tethers to my Android phone with no problem. The audio is the best I have heard on a tablet.Toshiba worked with SRS and it shows. (One note, the default volume levels are low. Go into settings and adjust right away) The screen is better than the Xoom but not quite as good as the Samsung (in my opinion) and it seems to do better with higher quality and higher resolution content. Looks phenomenal when viewing pictures from my Canon Digital with an L lens. Color accuracy is excellent,not just oversaturated like some other tablets. The screen response is great. Ran a multitouch test and it recognizes 4 separate touch points simultaneously. 2mp front camera and 5 MP back camera are both very good with good lighting. All in all this tablet offers more interoperabilty than anything on the market. It charges really fast, 90% in 90 minutes. Very, very happy with my decision to go with the Thrive. I had considered the Asus but with the horrific build quality issues and lightbleed I decided against it. I am so glad I waited because Toshiba got it right, right out of the box! This thing is solid! No creaking or flex. No loose bezel. Zero lightbleed. A tablet is the sum of all its parts and in the words of Charlie Sheen, #Winning!Update: 14 hrs today on the battery with fairly heavy surfing and some music and video. The battery gave me 6-7 hrs the first few charges. Wow, I didn't think it would improve this much! Really happy with the Thrive!

Q Say: Toshiba Thrive 10.1-Inch 32 GB Android Tablet AT105-T1032 Black
What's an iPad?, 2011-07-10
This review is for: Toshiba Thrive 10.1-Inch 32 GB Android Tablet AT105-T1032 Black
I won't bore everyone with the specs because, if you're like me, you know all of the features that differentiate it from every other tablet on the market. But I will say this: it puts most other tablets to shame in performance. This is my first Android device (I have had iPhones for almost four years now) because in the last few years, I just haven't been all that impressed with Android. The touch screen seemed to lag and was just generally less responsive than my iPhone. But recently, Apple has been brought to their knees and forced to beg for mercy and the Thrive is an excellent example of that. In fact, I have to say that I've become less impressed with boring old Apple and more impressed with fun and exciting Google. The touch screen is fantastic. It is just as responsive and quick as my iPhone (which means it's just as good as the poor-excuse-for-a-tablet iPad) and the screen looks great. Though, that might not mean much coming from me because I thought the Xoom's display was fine other than the back light being a little too dim for my taste.As for the look and feel of the Thrive, I will admit the Galaxy 10.1 has a classier appearance but it also feels ten times cheaper. I was going to buy a Galaxy until I actually had some hands on time with it and felt the cheap plastic backing and the cheap metallic silver trim. Plus, the thinness made me feel as if I could snap it in two if I wanted. I also noticed it had no ports (which, let's face it, defines the Android OS). I love the rubbery backing on the Thrive. Yes, it's plastic but it has a sturdy feel to it. It's just like Toshiba's laptops. I'm not too fond of the chrome piece that surrounds the camera but honestly, it's not even close to a deal breaker.There are a few things I don't particularly care for with this tablet:1. It was originally designed to run on Android 2.2 (Froyo) so it's a portrait oriented tablet meaning if you use it in landscape orientation, your hands cover up the cameras and finger prints get all over them. Also, the black bezel at the bottom is a little thicker so it could accommodate the physical buttons Froyo devices have. It pretty much seems like Toshiba didn't want to go back to the drawing board for a Honeycomb tablet, so they modified a Froyo tablet instead. It works, but the finger prints on the camera lens is a little annoying.2. The stereo speakers are located at the bottom of the tablet when its in landscape orientation. That means if you have the tablet resting on your lap, you're probably covering up the speakers. You can just flip the tablet upside down and have the speakers pointing away from you. But then they're pointing away from you and everyone else in the room gets all the sound.This next part is more of a review for the Android OS and not really the Thrive because there's only so many things you can say about hardware. Coming from iOS to Android has been a very pleasant experience for me. I don't find it confusing or hard to use and I've discovered so many freedoms Apple has restricted me from. I really like widgets, Flash, and not having applications arranged in a static row. I've now realized how boring and Nazi-like Apple is. I will even go as far as saying that the Android Market is better than the Apple Appstore. I have had no trouble finding the exact same applications I use on my iPhone in the Android Market. And for those Apple-exclusive apps, I have been able to find equivalents that are often just as good or better.All in all, Toshiba has a winner here. And since I've just spent $480 on a tablet, who wants to bet Toshiba will come out with a Thrive 2 that has a quadcore CPU in a few short weeks I'm going to wish I waited for? : )EDITI've owned this tablet for about two months now. I still love it and use it frequently, but now that the novelty has worn off, I do have some critiques. The Thrive has problems with responsiveness. I'm not sure if I have too many widgets or what, but a lot of the time, the screen freezes up for a few seconds. It's kind of choppy. Another issue I have is that it keeps turning itself on. I'll put the tablet to sleep, set it on the table, and it will wake itself up and display the lock screen. The chrome piece around the camera is quite cheap. It's not really chrome. It's plastic with shiny coating that chips away. My only other complaint is that the web browsing isn't quite as good as it is on a PC. It's more like a netbook in that it's a lot slower to load. I still think this is probably the best tablet on the market as far as functionality goes. And guess what? I was right. Toshiba has already announced a new tablet that will be released soon nicknamed the AT200. :S

O. C. Uribe Say: Toshiba Thrive 10.1-Inch 32 GB Android Tablet AT105-T1032 Black
Actual hands-on review, 2011-07-06
This review is for: Toshiba Thrive 10.1-Inch 32 GB Android Tablet AT105-T1032 Black
Strangely enough our local Fry's electronic store put their stock of Thrive's on sell July 1st! I picked one up and all I can say is that I love it! Aside from a few Honeycomb 3.1 quirks, and the fact the Thrive is a little thicker than its competition, it feels solid in my hands and responds smoothly and quickly to my touch. One of the things that has me really happy is the full size SD card and the full size USB port! For twenty dollars I doubled my memory with a 16GB SD card, lets see the Samsung Tab or IPad do that. I've been using it non-stop for five days and so far no crashes or freezing up. The battery life is ok, however the battery charges faster then my cell phone. I can pretty my charge the tablet in an hour, not to shabby. Apps have gone on smoothly with no problems, I have the kindle app, MOBO player, Pulse for news, Catch for note taking, Documents To Go for reviewing and editing spreadsheets, and the Adobe reader for looking over PDFs. If there is any APP you should check out is Google Body, my kids love looking over the different anatomy viewpoints. The browser works like any full size browser you would experience on your laptop. That's all I got. I am not a Toshiba rep or even a techie, just another person looking for an alternative tablet to the IPad or the ridiculously expensive XOOM. It was either the Transformer by Asus or this. All I can say is that Toshiba has made a solid product that doesn't feel like its going to break on me or like they tried to cram every feature into a tin can. For once I'm not disappointed.