Gadgetory

hey I'm Colin bail for cnet.com and I'm here with the toshiba excite 10 l e this is an Android tablet a 10 inch tablet from toshiba is running Android 3.2 although there will be an android 4.0 update down the line but right now I open this thing up get Android 3.2 and you are getting the lightest thinnest 10 inch tablet money can buy now it is going to cost you a little bit it's about five hundred and thirty dollars for a 16 gigabyte model or 599 for 32 gigs you also have the option for micro SD memory expansion over here on the side the side here also has a micro USB connection and a headphone jack and an hdmi output so those are all great to have especially on a tablet this thin now one of the bummers here is that on the other side down here on the bottom you've got your charging port which comes with this big honkin charging adapter that's not easy to carry around with you and not easy to replace if you lose it you can still charge off of the USB port on the side here but charging is going to be a lot slower another disappointment is that it it doesn't feel that great in the hand there's a they're using a metal magnesium backing here which is nice but on the edges here the part where you're actually holding it with your hands the plastic on the side has this kind of a sharp edge that catches your your hands it doesn't feel that great it kind of feels like something that a tablet that cost more than the ipad probably should have figured out other than that though it's you know if you're really putting a premium on thinness and lightness this is the tablet to go with at the moment anything that you're wanting to do with android as far as apps are concern seems to be running grey here the screen isn't the brightest it's not the most responsive we seen and there are tablets coming out right now that are that do have better processors and are going to be able to beat this in terms of specs but you can't beat the fact that it's really light and really thin especially at the time when the ipad has actually gotten a little bit heavier and a little bit thicker so that's it for the two kiba excite 10 le cnet com I'm da Bao