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Toshiba abandoning plans for Windows 7 tablet, Chromebook?
We were expecting Toshiba to launch its Windows 7 tablet during the second half of this year, but rumor has it that the company may be abandoning the slate altogether. DigiTimes is reporting that both the 11.6-inch slab and a forthcoming Chromebook have disappeared from Toshiba's product launchpad, according to sources within the industry. The Chromebook will reportedly be slashed due to disappointing netbook sales in 2010, whereas the reasons behind the tablet's cancellation remain less clear. DigiTimes suggests that Toshiba may be throwing all of its weight behind its new Honeycomb-powered Thrive slate, meaning that its Windows 7 counterpart could either be delayed even further, or simply relinquished. There's obviously plenty of speculation swirling around, but we'll let you know as soon as we receive more concrete reports.
Toshiba's Android tablet said to be coming in September or October
We can't say Digitimes is overflowing with details on Toshiba's long rumored Android tablet, but it looks like we should be marking our planners for a September or October release. As we've heard before the 10-inch tablet will run some version of Android and will be powered by a NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. The early fall timing surely does make sense to us considering we just heard from NVIDIA this week that many of its partners are planning to release Tegra 2 devices in that time frame. Again, no real details on what Toshiba's planning here in terms of pricing and specs, but here's hoping it's significantly less expensive than that new, fancy dualscreen Libretto W100. Note: That's not the actual Toshiba Android tablet up there -- it's just a poor Photoshop of the Toshiba JournE with a Android screen.
