Gadgetory

since the debut of the ipad tablet screens have had a size cap of about 10 inches now with the release of the toshiba excite 13 toshiba has blown away any size cap expectations and then some hi i'm eric franklin and today i'll take a first look at the toshiba excite 13 the world's first as far as i know 13 inch tablet if you're familiar at all with the excite 10 but you know almost exactly what you're getting except on a larger scale you still get the 128 gigabyte SD card expansion slot micro USB micro HDMI a headphone jack and a rotation lock switch the tablet has a textured metal backside and maybe by nature of its size doesn't feel quite as bendy as the excite 10 but I still notice some build quality issues it's how it weighs about 2.2 pounds and there's a full 13.5 inches wide this makes typing while holding the tablet pretty much impossible unless you possess some kind of fantastic finger stretching ability also 13 inches means more inches to clean I mean look how smudgy this thing gets there is a 2 megapixel camera on the front and a LED flash supported 5 megapixel camera on the back both of which produce typically mediocre tablet quality video and images the screen resolution has been upgraded from the excite 10 from 1280 by 800 to 1600 x 900 and it feels responsive when swiping and navigating menus the tablet houses a Tegra 3 cpu and with our go to game Riptide GP it ran pretty smoothly on it with the expected Tegra 3 splashing effects 1080p movies from outside sources ran smoothly and look sharp and I have to admit watching movies on a larger high-resolution screen will always be the preferred method prices start at six hundred fifty dollars for the 32 gigabyte version and seven hundred fifty dollars for the 64 gigabyte version while movies look great on larger screen at these prices you'd be better off buying an actual HDTV if movies are that important to you bottom line yes this is a larger tablet but it really doesn't offer anything new to the tablet experience and at 650 to 750 bucks at that price you really have the question whether it's worth it for something that feels kinda like a gimmick once again i'm eric franklin this has been the first look at the toshiba excite 13