The Android smartphone ecosystem is about choice of form factors and features, and the tablet market is shaping up the same way. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 1.3 pound iPad 2. It weighs 1.68 lbs., which is close to the Motorola Xoom's weight, but clearly heavier than the 1.25 lb. The Toshiba Thrive is the thickest Android Honeycomb tablet on the market, as well as the largest by a very small margin. Smart reader you know all expandability and a user replaceable battery come at a cost. Honeycomb supports USB HID devices (keyboards, mice and limited game controller support), so you can use the tablet with these. When spending around $500, we doubt $20 is a deciding purchase factor (it shouldn't be), but that $429 price tag will likely tempt budget-conscious buyers. The 8 gig sells for $429 at launch, while the 16 gig is $479 and the 32 gig is $579, undercutting the competition by $20. In fact, Toshiba is currently the only 10" Honeycomb tablet maker to offer an 8 gig model since you can use external storage (and of course so they can sell it for less than competing big name brands like Samsung, Apple and Motorola).
That full size USB port and SD card slot, combined with Toshiba's system enhancements and file manager, mean you can view images on your digital camera's SD card or store files on a card, and you can use flash drives and hard drives with the tablet, so you need not try and cram your life into the tablet's internal storage. this is an Android tablet with the heart of a notebook.
The back cover pops off to reveal a removable battery. Even the USB sync/file transfer port is mini USB rather than the now more common smaller micro USB port. What sets it apart are the full size HDMI and USB port and SD card slot. The Thrive is a 10.1" Android Honeycomb 3.1 tablet with the usual internals: dual core 1Ghz Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU, a gig of RAM, WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, a GPS, dual cameras and a 10.1" capacitive 1280 x 800 LED backlight touch screen. If ports get you hot and bothered, and if a replaceable battery makes your heart go pitter-pat, the Toshiba Thrive is your tablet. Rather than copying the iPad and iPad 2, they made a tablet that dares to be thick, rugged and hyper-expandable. In Chief (twitter: applaud Toshiba: they dared to do something different. What's not: Thick and at the heavy end of the tablet spectrum. What's hot: Full size USB, HDMI ports, replaceable battery, rugged design. Home > Android Tablet Reviews > Toshiba Thrive
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