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hi I'm Scott Stein and what I have in front of me it doesn't really have a name that quite fits what it is toshiba excite 10 se I'm sorry it's not a tablet you're going to be really excited about it's because we're at a time that's little transitional with Android tablets and you also have a tablet that is a budget version of what toshiba has released previously originally there was the toshiba excite 10 le which was a slim sleek tablet then there was a toshiba excite 10 there was a little thicker those are both made of metal this one is made out of plastic does not have gorilla glass so you can definitely feel it is a budget type quality throughout and a lower price but this isn't as low as you'd like it to be it's about 349 which is a good deal higher than competing tablets with pretty similar specs including the Asus memo pad smart 10 that I reviewed recently this is a Tegra 3 processor 1 gig of ram and 16 gigs of on-board storage and you do have a micro SD card slot for expansion but you lose a few things that were in the previous versions of toshiba tablets including micro HDMI which is kind of a nice feature and the cameras have been dumbed down a bit to 1.2 megapixel on the front and three in the back as opposed to two and five previously that's a kind of a big leap and you know other than that it's really kind of a cosmetic shift also previously there was a full SD card slot as opposed to micro SD and felicity is a little more convenient it's still a functioning tablet and it feels solid yet not really that impressive the 10.1 inch screen is a 1280 by 800 display which used to be good back in 2012 but now when you're dealing with a lot of tablets that have super high resolution displays the ipad the kindle fire HD 8.9 and the nexus 10 you're really seeing a new standard being said in large tablets and I think this type of resolution you'd now expect in a 7-inch and the price just isn't sweet enough for what it's gotten side between Google i/o around the corner and the fact that there are new Tegra processors coming out later this year Tegra 4 in particular which looks promising incidentally this runs android 4.1 1.1 and that's what we tested this on whether it gets android 4.2 is not exactly clear yet and that's been in serve on a device by device basis when it comes to which ones get upgrades that take that into consideration and the fact that it's not really running the latest version of the OS and doesn't have the most recent processor gives it that feel the middle generation kind of tweener product is this really the toshiba excite 10 se I feel like it's the show Sheba okay se is a product that is a tweener it's really between the more exciting processors coming down the road and it's not quite budget enough it's not going to do terribly but I'm not all that thrilled about something that's not running the most exciting latest version of Android and it's not running the fastest processors possible and doesn't have the highest resolution screen i'm scott steinem that's a look at the toshiba excite 10 SE