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Toshiba Announces 13.3 Inch Android 4.0 Tablet

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:46:01 +0000

Toshiba has announced three new models in the Excite brand. The Excite 13 has a 13.3-inch display, which is almost twice the size of the 7-inch slate. According to research, Toshiba found out that most tablet owners never take their tablets outside of their home.

The Excite 10 and the Excite 13 run on Android 4.0. They both have a Gorilla Glass display and are equipped with a quad-core Tegra 3 processor. Each tablet has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front camera. They each also have stereo speakers, WiFi, and Bluetooth.

The 13.3-inch display on the Excite 13 has a 1600×900 backlit LED. The Excite 10 has a 1280×800 (10.1-inch screen), and the 7.7-inch model has an AMOLED display. Each of these tablets have at least 10 hours of battery life.

Prices/Availability
Excite 10 – May 6 – Starting price of $449.99 (16GB internal storage)
Excite 13 – June 10 – Starting price of $649.99
Excite 7.7 – June 10 – Starting price of $499.99

Jamie Kennedy Now Working With Toshiba For Marketing Campaign [VIDEO]

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:46:47 +0000

Jamie Kennedy is a comedian that is known for playing the role of Randy in the Scream movie series, Brad Gluckman in Malibu’s Most Wanted, Creepy Guy in Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, Justin Schumacher on Kickin It Old Skool, and for his most recent cameos in the last season of Entourage.

Now Kennedy has created a marketing campaign called “I Was Framed” by Toshiba. Kennedy is working with directing partner Michael Addis and two pickpocket experts to slip the new Toshiba Portégé Z830 Ultrabook into a victim’s bag. After the laptop was placed into the victim’s bag, fake security cops approached and informed her that the cops were on the way.

The Toshiba Portégé Z830 Ultrabook is thin and weighs less than 2.5 pounds. “I think the fact that we could pull it off was pretty cool,” stated Kennedy. “Hidden-camera is so funny because people always equate it with, ‘What would I do in that situation?’ They would think, ‘I’d never fall for that!’ … It’s totally schadenfreude.” Check out the video above to see the experiment in action.

[Mashable]

Floods In Thailand Causes Hard Drive Prices To Increase

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:14:52 +0000

Over the last three months, Thailand has been dealing with a series of floods that cost the lives of over four hundred people. About 2.3 million have been impacted. The financial impact is expected to be about $5.1 billion. Some of the companies that were directly affected by the floods include Western Digital, Toshiba, and Seagate. Thailand is the largest manufacturer of hard drives which accounts for 25% of total worldwide production and the floods are causing a shortage of supplies.

The shortage of supplies is causing hard drive prices to go up with some prices increasing by over 200%. DigiTimes is expecting hard drive shortages to reach about 19 million units in Q4. Western Digital has temporarily suspended their operations in Thailand and they will not be supplying hard drives to Taiwan channels in November. Samsung is also doing the same and will only be making shipments for their own devices. The normal prices are expected to take about a year.

Apple Suppliers Are Building A Cheaper 8GB iPhone [RUMOR]

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:28:51 +0000

According to Asian suppliers, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has started manufacturing a lower priced version of the iPhone 4 with an 8GB hard drive. The flash drive for the 8GB iPhone 4 is believed to be built by a Korean company. Apple currently sources their flash drives to Toshiba in Japan and Samsung Electronics in South Korea.

The current iPhone 4 was launched in June 2010 with 16GB and 32GB versions. A white version of the iPhone 4 was added this past April. The next generation iPhone is expected to be available for pre-order at the end of September. Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones in the second quarter.

[Reuters]

Toshiba Announces $200 14-Inch DisplayLink USB Mobile Monitor

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:38:47 +0000

Toshiba has announced a new mobile monitor powered by USB. The 14″ mobile monitor retails for $199 and it weighs only 2.8 lbs. The mobile monitor screen is 1366×768 pixels and it has 220 nits of brightness. If you plug in an optional AC adapter, it will have a 400:1 contrast ratio, 16 millisecond response time, and native support for Windows. [Engadget]

Toshiba Dynabook Qosmio T750 Laptop Is Like A Chameleon

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:44:41 +0000

The Toshiba Dynabook Qosmio T750 laptop has a lid that changes color when you look at it in different light. This laptop uses multiple layers of film, not paint tuners to pull the chameleon look. The T750 has a 2.66GHz Intel Core i5-480M processor, 4GB of DDR3 memory, 1366×768 LED backlit display, and 15.6-inch screen. [RegHardware]

The Toshiba NB205 Is A Pretty Solid Netbook For A Decent Price

Amit Chowdhry — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:03:14 +0000

The Toshiba NB205 is a netbook that has Windows 7 Starter OS, 10.1-inch display, 250GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, and an Atom processor. It comes in turquoise, blue, lime green, brown, and orange. The N550 retails for $299. [CNET]

Toshiba Satellite C655D Is Powered By AMD Fusion

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:16:00 +0000

At CES Toshiba has announced a new laptop called the Satellite C655D. The C655D has an AMD Fusion processor, 15.6-inch screen, 4GB of RAM support, 320GB of storage, and 5.5 pound weight. No word yet on the price or availability yet. [MobileWhack]

Dynex, Haier, Panasonic, Samsung, Toshiba, Etc. To Make Remote Controls With A Netflix Button

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:38:33 +0000

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) sent out a press release today about how several electronics companies are going to make remote controls with a prominent red Netflix button on it. That button would connect you to Netflix on Internet connected TVs. The electronics companies include Dynex, Haier, Memorex, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, and Toshiba.

“For members who want even more convenience when instantly watching TV shows and movies streaming from Netflix, the answer is about to be right in their hands,” stated Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt. “No more turning on the TV, going to a home screen and searching for the Netflix icon. With the Netflix one-click remote, it’s simply a matter of pushing the Netflix button to instantly watch any of the vast selection of TV shows and movies available to stream from Netflix.”

[TechCrunch]

Sony To Buy Chip Fabrication Facilities From Toshiba For $835 Million

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:33:40 +0000

Sony and Toshiba have made an $835 million agreement. Sony will be buying back a chip fabrication facility from Toshiba that is being operated by Nagasaki Semiconductor Manufacturing. This is a pretty good deal considering that Sony sold the plant for slightly over $1 billion in 2008. The transfer is expected to take place in the fiscal year March 2012. Below is the full press release:

Toshiba and Sony Sign Memorandum of Understanding for the Transfer of Semiconductor Fabrication Facilities

Tokyo, Japan, December 24, 2010 — Toshiba Corporation (“Toshiba”) and Sony Corporation (“Sony”) today announced that they had signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding expressing their intent to transfer from Toshiba to Sony the semiconductor fabrication facilities owned by Toshiba and operated by Nagasaki Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (“NSM”), a joint venture among Toshiba, Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (“SCEI”), and, following the contemplated transfer, terminate their NSM joint venture relationship.

NSM, which was established in March 2008 and is located in the Nagasaki Technology Center of Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation (“SCK”), has been manufacturing the high-performance “Cell Broadband Engine™” processor, the graphics engine “RSX” and other high-performance semiconductors and leading-edge SoC (system-on-a-chip) for applications in digital consumer products of Toshiba and Sony. The facilities to be transferred would be the fabrication facilities and equipment for the 300 mm wafer line located within the Nagasaki Technology Center purchased by Toshiba from Sony and SCK and leased to NSM in 2008 and other facilities that Toshiba and Sony will agree to transfer among those in which Toshiba invested in connection with the operation by NSM after the purchase.

After due diligence on the facilities to be transferred and continuing negotiations, Toshiba and Sony aim to execute definitive agreements (with respect to the contemplated transfer of the semiconductor fabrication facilities) as soon as possible before the end of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011. Thereafter, Toshiba and Sony aim to complete the transfer early in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012, subject to any necessary government approvals.

[Engadget]