A new tablet has been announced by Toshiba Corporation, the Japanese manufacturer of various products. After Thrive, Toshiba came up with Excite 10 LE and AT 270 was also spotted at Mobile World Congress. Now Toshiba announces a new tablet named LT170 will be released in Italy in a week or so at a price of around € 299. Let’s go through the specifications and features of Toshiba LT170 tablet.
Toshiba LT 170 Android Tablet
All new Toshiba LT 170 Android tablet comes with 7 inches capacitive touchscreen display and it provides a maximum resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. It’s powered with a Freescale iMX53 processor clocked at 1 GHz and comes with 512 MB of RAM to handle multiple operations together. Provided with 8 GB ROM i.e., the internal flash memory it will be used for files and media storage purpose. It comes with dual camera of 2 mega pixel on the rear side which can be used for taking pictures and videos at marginal quality and front facing VGA camera can be used for video chat and video calls. The Android version included in this tablet is Android 2.3 Gingerbread and about its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich availability, yet we are not sure and there is no word from Toshiba as well.
Accordingly to the specifications this tablet is lighter at 388 grams and has the dimensions of 200.25 x 128.5 x 11.5 mm. The tablet also includes micro SD card slot, micro USB port to allows users transfer content to and fro from PC and tablet. It’s with powerful Lithium ion battery and comes with energy efficient features providing up to seven hours of video playback on full charge and comes with various sensors like light sensor, ambient sensor and accelerometer. As this tablet is powered with Android operating system which is by Google, it comes with various pre installed applications such as Gmail, YouTube, Picasa, Google Talk, Google Mail, Google Calendar. In addition to that it comes with Android Play Store access previously known Android Market which allows users to access, download and buy various Android applications submitted by third party developers and approved by Google Android team. This tablet comes with Wi Fi b/g/n internet access and Bluetooth 2.1 can be used for wireless file transfer. Using 3.5 headphone jack you can hear the songs and micro SD card slot allows users to add extra memory up to 32 GB in size.
LT 170 is now available for pre order at various retailers in Italy like Fnac. As said earlier, Toshiba LT 170 will arrive in Italy at the end of March at € 299 and there is no word from Toshiba about its availability worldwide.
