Gadgetory

now a shiba Ankur ate is an eight inch tablet running a full version of Windows 8.1 it has a screen resolution of 1280 by 800 includes a microSD card slot supporting up to 64 gigabyte cards it also has micro USB and micro HDMI there's a 2 megapixel camera on the front and an 8 megapixel camera on the back neither takes the best pictures or delivers the clearest video but as long as there's enough ambient and preferably natural light pictures usually turn out decent enough the Encore is built like a typical toshiba tablet it's bulky heavier than other tablets at its size has this plastic silver textured back that should make it more grippy but doesn't really the corners are smoothly rounded and don't dig into my palm so I do like that now I'm a fan of the touch or Metro interface for Windows 8.1 it's come a pretty long way since Windows 8 point oh the biggest issue with windows 8 however is that it relies too heavily on the desktop interface any control panel is you want to access you got to go through the desktop and while it's fine if you have a mouse and keyboard on an 8-inch tablet however it gets a bit frustrating when you're trying to close windows you can't quite hit the X or you want to search for something but the virtual keyboard doesn't automatically pop up that's a Microsoft issue of course but toshiba did choose to put this OS on an 8-inch tablet and then not release a keyboard for it so it has to take its fair share of the blame as well performance is thankfully high apps load it quickly reboots are fast and games ran smoothly the screen as well is immediately responsive to swipes the anchor eight starts at three hundred and thirty dollars for 32 gigabytes of storage or four hundred dollars with 64 gigabytes of storage check out my full review at cnet com for more information and my final recommendation i'm eric franklin and this has been a first look at the Toshiba encore 8 you