Toshiba announces its Folio 100 tablet

WITH ITS OWN GAMES the €399 10.1-inch display Toshiba Folio 100 tablet has a feature to set it apart from the other tablets landing here at IFA 2010.

With an expected fourth quarter release this first version of the Folio 100 will have an American football game along with WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 as well as 16GB of storage. A 3G version will follow, says Toshiba.

Today's Folio 100 game is played using the tablet's accelerometers to control the football player. The touchscreen is used to control the player's moves. The game was specially produced for the Folio 100 and Toshiba told The INQUIRER that more games will be available in the future. Streaming movies and a digital book service will also be announced in the future, according to Toshiba.

However what is available already at Toshiba Marketplace are Music Place, which provides music, Radio Place, for online radio channels, and App Place, which has apps for download.

The Folio 100 can boot up in 30 seconds with its Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU and Android 2.2 OS. It also has a 1.3MP camera and its display has a resolution of 1,024x600. Its I/O ports include mini HDMI, a USB port and an SD card reader. It weighs 780g, has a battery life of 7 hours with normal usage and has a phone function that can be used for videoconferencing.

The Folio 100 supports Flash 10.1 and it can output 1080p video. It also comes with the Opera browser, Toshiba media player, Fring and Document to Go software as standard. µ