Toshiba will ready its tablets late in 2010

14th March, 2010 by adina
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Jeff Barney, Toshiba’s US notebook lead, has said the company would develop its own tablets. He said a line of devices is scheduled for late this year or early in 2011. Details of how the devices would look like were not revealed. Jeff Barney said that Toshiba would have to move very fast to get a significant stake in the market, before Apple and other companies are crowding it out. According to Barney, Toshiba would make a mistake to underestimate the new categories of devices and new categories would have to be created.

Toshiba has already launched the JournE touch to Europe last year, but it is unlikely the device or a revision would reach the United States. It was designed more as a mobile Internet device with a custom, fully-contained version of Windows CE, not allowing third party applications. It is not clear what operating system would be used instead. Toshiba has been one of the most loyal Microsoft devotees and has only accidentally used a non-Windows operating system, but the new Windows 7 would require conventional, bulkier x86 processors that were not used in tablets launched this year.


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