Toshiba has today released pricing and availability information for the AT200 which we first heard about back in September last year when it was announced at IFA in Germany. The 10″ AT200 is one of the thinnest and lightest tablets to be released at just 7.7mm thin and weighing only 558g, it will sell at $579. Toshiba advised the tablet will be available in early February and given the reach Toshiba laptops have in retail stores I imagine it will be pretty easy to lay your hands on the AT200, the specs appear to be fairly decent :
- Android™ 3.2
- TI OMAP™ 4430
- 10.1″ Widescreen – 1280 X 800 @ 142PPI
- 1GB DDR2 RAM
- 16GB OnBoard Solid State Drive with micro SD Card slot
- Dual HD Cameras : 5.0M Rear & 2.0M Front Facing
- Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Ambient Light Sensor, GPS, E-Compass
- Wifi 802.11(b/g/n), Bluetooth V2.1 + EDR and DLNA Certified
- 1 x Mirco USB Port, micro HDMI
- 8 hours + Battery Life
- 256mm x 176mm x 7.7mm @ 558g
It is a bit of a shame that they are shipping the tablet with Honeycomb, however The Verge advises that they have spoken with Toshiba and it will get Ice Cream Sandwich, but no time frame has been given. This is a much better looking tablet than the original Thrive which was a fairly hefty tablet even if it did have a full size USB port. Pricing wise it’s a little high in my opinion but it is a Toshiba so build quality should be pretty good, guess we`ll have to see if we can lay our hands on one for a test drive when it comes out.
