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After Failing with Thick Thrive, Toshiba Will Now Fail with Pricey, Thin Excite X10 Tablet

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Jan 092012
 
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Like all of the non-iPad tablets (except perhaps Amazon’s Kindle Fire), Toshiba’s 10.1-inch Thrive too has turned out to be a dud.

In November, Toshiba Thrive tablets were on Groupon for $299 (a hefty $100 discount for the 16GB version), making it $200 cheaper than the entry-level 16GB iPad 2.

Ha ha ha!

Now, don’t tell us you’d sell your Tablets on Groupon if you’re selling well in the marketplace! ;)

The Thrive has USB and HDMI ports and even a SD card slots but prone to crashing, comes with crapware and low battery life.

And nobody gives a damn for the Toshiba Thrive.

We’ve played with the Thrive at one of the H.H.Gregg stores and didn’t get an orgasm.

Toshiba Excite x10 TabletToshiba to Bring Excite X10 to U.S.

Toshiba Plays the Excite Game

Large corporations are like human beings.

Stupid as hell!

After all, what are corporations but agglomerations of humans.

Despite a poor showing and having little chance with another tablet, Toshiba is throwing its hats into the Tablet ring yet again with the Excite X10 tablet.

This time at a higher price point than the wonderful, nonpareil iPad.

Touting it as the world’s thinnest tablet at 0.3 inches (7.7mm), Toshiba plans to introduce the Excite X10 in the U.S. this quarter at a starting price of $529 (16GB version), higher than a comparable iPad 2 by $30.

If that’s not a recipe for disaster, we don’t know what is.

Nobody, nobody gives a flying f*ck for the “thinnest tablet” in the world.

Consumers want a tablet that works well, has buzz, comes with a solid ecosystem of applications and oozes sex appeal.

And the iPad 2 has all of them!

Consumers are not driven by price alone.

Now for all the impatient ‘uns, here are the specifications for the Toshiba Excite X10:

Specifications

  • Latest Android software
  • 10.1-inch diagonal LED Backlit widescreen Corning Gorilla Glass display with IPS technology and 10-finger multi-touch support
  • 1280 x 800 resolution, 16:10 aspect ratio
  • Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 processor; 1.2GHz with 1GB LPDDR2 RAM
  • 16GB and 32GB configurations
  • 2 megapixel front-facing camera
  • 5 megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash
  • Micro USB, Micro HDMI ports
  • Micro SD card slot
  • Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
  • Gyroscope, Accelerometer, GPS, eCompass and Ambient Light Sensor
  • Stereo speakers with sound enhancements by Toshiba and SRS Labs
  • Built-in 25 watt-hour rechargeable lithium ion battery
  • 10.1” (W) x 6.9” (D) x 0.3” (H)
  • 1.18 pounds (535g)
Price Cuts Coming

We’re gonna take a bet with all ye schmucks that Toshiba will start discounting the Excite X10 before the end of the second quarter.

To compete against the iPad Tablet, rivals need a significantly lower price point (like the Kindle Fire).

By emphasizing the “thinness” and pricing its entry-level Excite X10 offering higher than the comparable iPad, Toshiba is playing the tablet game entirely the wrong way!

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iPad Crushes Android in App Downloads

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Jan 042012
 
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If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times.

The only tablet worth dicking around with is the Apple iPad.

The solid sales numbers for the iPad and dismal record of the Android tablets bears us out.

Time and again, we’ve seen prominent Android tablet vendors like Motorola, Blackberry, Samsung, Sony etc reduce their prices to better compete with Apple but to no avail.

Here’s one more piece of evidence that drives home our point that the only tablet worth buying is the iPad.

A new study by ABI Research has estimated that iPad users cumulatively downloaded three billion applications compared to 440 million downloads for all the Android tablets combined.

App downloads is perhaps the best indicator of a tablet’s popularity for what’s a tablet without apps – a mere paperweight.

By most accounts, the user experience of iPad owners is superior and that of the woebegone Android tablet owners inferior.

iPad Tablets - Cock of the WalkiPad – 3 Billion App Downloads

According to ABI Research’s practice director for mobile services Dan Shey:

Android is currently being used on many low end tablets that do not offer experiences anywhere near the iPad and this dampens the download momentum for users.

Apple offers 140,000 apps developed specifically for the iPad. In additions, tens of thousands of apps developed for the iPhone also work on the iPad.

We doubt there are even a few thousand dedicated Android tablet apps.

iPad downloads account for 19% of all app downloads on Apple devices including the iPhone, iPod touch and Mac.

From our own experience, there are tons of apps for the iPad including Indian TV channels like NDTV, newspapers like Times of India and Economic Times, books, Netflix, magazines (New Yorker) etc that keep us hooked to the device.

Recently a new app called Shahrukh Khan debuted on the iPad. No kidding.

SearchIndia.com does not share ABI Research’s enthusiasm that things will change as Android tablet vendors adopt the recently-released Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich and accelerate product development to close up the specifications gap between their tablets, such as the Amazon Kindle Fire and the iPad.

By the way, did we hear someone say What about Aakash? ;)

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In India, Dogs & Humans Run Behind Junk

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Jan 032012
 
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In Incredible India, dogs and humans have one thing in common – they both are forever running behind some useless thing.

Visit any Indian village or town, you’ll be sure to find a bunch of feral-looking dogs chasing a bus, a stranger, young kids, cows, the mailman or other dogs.

Ditto with Indian humans.

They too are peerless when it comes to running after or chasing useless things.

Whether it’s a cricket ball, a girl, film star or an accident site, you can’t beat Indians when it comes to running behind useless stuff.

Crappy Tablets

After decades of chasing cricket balls, film stars and moving buses, Indians of the two-legged variety have gone hi-tech.

They are now running behind crappy, useless digital tablets.

Look at all the hullabaloo over the Rs 2,500 ($50) Aakash Tablet.

For the last few months we’ve been hearing so much noise about the Aakash tablet, a crappy piece of junk that doesn’t even have a built-in speaker and, worse, has an unresponsive touchscreen.

Why This Passion for Trash?

Say what you will about the perversities of the White Man but he has an eye for quality (Think iPad).

Even a homeless vagabond or panhandler (beggar) in America wouldn’t touch the Aakash kind of junk.

Yet, the Indian propensity for chasing after trash is so hardwired in their DNA that 1.4 million Indians have booked the junk tablet.

Yes, 1.4 million Indians of all stripes are going Ah and Oh over this Aakash piece of crap.

Indians repeat the same attitude in other walks of day-to-day life as well.

They run behind worthless monsters like Salman Khan, follow jokers like Abhishek Bachchan, ape vamps like Bipasha Basu, pray to fake Swamijis like Nityananda, go to worthless Australian universities for higher ‘studies’ and hang on to the words of jokers like Big B on Twitter.

Indians, it’s apparent, have no eye for quality or class.

Like lemmings, they’ll follow the pack in pursuit of trash, often cheap trash.

No matter that cheap and best are seldom compatible bed-mates.

In its current form, the Aakash tablet has no hope in hell of being a real tablet.

Leading companies like Motorola, HP, Samsung, Asus, Sony and Blackberry with mega budgets have struggled to make headway with their tablets despite price cuts.

And yet we’re asked to believe that these running-behind-trash Indians have achieved a breakthrough with the $50 Aakash.

Ha ha ha. We haven’t stopped laughing.

As we’ve said on several occasions it’s not easy to replicate a decent, usable tablet device.

And that too at such a low price point like $50.

But is anybody listening to the voice of reason aka SI. Hell, no.

The more things seem to change the more they remain the same in Mera Bharat Mahaan.

Folks, the only tablet worth picking up is the iPad 2.

As for the rest of the tablets, all we can do is imitate the crazy Hindus who shout themselves hoarse in their woebegone temples, Govinda, Govinda. ;)

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The Miracle of Steve Jobs – Seen Via a Baby’s Fingers

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Oct 222011
 
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Sometimes a picture video is worth a million trillion words:

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Amazon Heeds SI’s Advice on Tablet Pricing

 Digital Media, Tablets  7 Responses »
Sep 282011
 
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No, you schmucks are not the only ones reading, and more importantly benefiting from, the nonpareil SI blog.

Y’all can pat your collective backs today that you’re in august company.

Obviously, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is an avid reader of the SI blog because in August we recommended that the upcoming Kindle Tablet must be priced between $200-$250 if it intends to be a viable player in a market lorded over by the iPad.

This is what SI wrote on August 1, 2011:

With most consumers strongly fixated on the iPad, we don’t see how Amazon can gain quick traction unless it launches an entry-level 16GB model at $200-$250, a significantly lower price point compared to Apple’s $499 price for the 16GB iPad 2.

And as we all know by now, Bezos followed our sage counsel – Amazon came in at the low end of our suggested price, i.e. $199 for its Kindle Fire tablet launched today.

It’s heartening to note that good advice does not always fall on deaf ears. ;)

But it’s a bit disappointing that the Kindle Fire offers only 8GB storage instead of our recommended 16GB but Amazon is offering unlimited Cloud Storage.

Amazon Launches Kindle Fire

Kindle Fire ships on November 15.

By the way, you can pre-order the Kindle Fire tablet on Amazon’s web site now.

Related Posts:
Amazon Guns for iPad with $199 Kindle Fire Tablet
Ha Ha Ha, ROFL; Amazon Will Sell 5m Tablets in Q4, Predicts Forrester
Can Amazon Lift the Sinking Android Tablets?

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Amazon Guns for iPad with $199 Kindle Fire Tablet

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Sep 282011
 
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In hopes of riding the current tablet wave sweeping consumers, E-commerce behemoth Amazon.com today launched a $199 tablet it’s calling the Kindle Fire.

As expected, it’s a 7-inch touchscreen device running a custom version of Google’s Android software.

Amazon Debuts $199 Kindle FireCan Kindle Fire Catch Fire
with Consumers?

Key Features

* The dual-processor tablet weighs 14.6-oz, is WiFi only and does not support 3G connectivity.

* It comes with 8GB of internal storage (supposedly enough for 80 apps, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books).

* As for battery life, Amazon is promising up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off.

* Kindle Fire includes a browser called Amazon Silk (yes, it supports Flash) and free cloud storage.

Amazon plans to start shipping the Kindle Fire from November 15, in time for the rich pickings of the holiday shopping season.

The Bad and the Good

Kindle Fire lacks a camera or a microphone.

Bad -  This means you can’t use the device to make Skype video calls the way you can with the iPad 2.

If even regular Skype (i.e. non-video version) does not work on the Kindle Fire a lot of folks are going to be disappointed.

Amazon’s main rival the Apple iPad has both WiFi and 3G versions and sports a 9.7-inch screen.

Bad – As we’ve said in some of our earlier posts, the 7-inch screen is rather small for a tablet. Continue reading »

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