Gadgetory

what can be said about the toshiba thrive tablet that hasn't already been said about every other tablet out there hi I'm Eric Franklin's senior editor at cnet and the answer to that question is well quite a few things actually the Thrive runs on honeycomb 3.1 like nearly every other new tablet it has a front-facing 2-megapixel camera and a 5-megapixel back facing camera for pictures and video it's 10.1 inch screen provides a 1280 x 800 resolution and it's why bezel makes it look kind of like a larger version of the tmobile g slate when picking it up the first thing we notice is the groovy textured back side which feels really nice and grippy so Sheba also allows you to swap out the back panel and choose from seven different colors at twenty dollars each to replace it taking off the panel which is a bit difficult to remove also reveals the swappable battery the second thing we notice about it's physicality it's just how girthy it is as it actually measures out to nearly three times the thickness of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and feels noticeably heavier toshiba doesn't waste the extra real estate however as a thrive features a number of ports including full USB full HDMI a mini USB port and an SD card slot you'll also find a headphone jack a rotation lock volume rocker power button and a lock for the removable back panel as well an interesting decision was to include 3 status LED lights on the bezel for power battery charge and wireless we can see this being somewhat distracting depending on what you're using the tablet for at a time as for software the throttles useful and unique feature is a file manager which provides native direct access to the file system allowing you to easily launch files from the hard drive SD card or USB thumb drive as for the pricing the Thrive starts at four hundred and twenty nine dollars for the a gigabyte version 479 for the 16 gigabyte and 579 dollars from the 32 gigabyte model be sure to check out the full review of the toshiba thrive with much more detailed impressions once again i'm eric franklin and this has been the first look at the toshiba thrive