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The Toshiba Tablet

25 points by talbina 16y ago

mcav 16y ago
I had a Toshiba tablet (a Tecra M4). It now hangs on my wall as a Star-Trek-styled dashboard: http://d.pr/8Dyk http://d.pr/8Dyk
- e1ven 16y ago
  Nifty! Are you using an App for that, or is it custom?
  - mcav 16y ago
    It's a webpage running full-screen on Chrome in Ubuntu. You can actually see it here: http://marcuscavanaugh.com/dashboard/ http://marcuscavanaugh.com/dashboard/ I tried using Geckoboard, but it wasn't customizable enough for what I was trying to accomplish.
btipling 16y ago
That's an ad full of win. It's very different from the off putting DROID eats your lunch and is smarter than you stuff from Verizon, doesn't look at all inspired or a derivative from Apple marketing and lists features that are interesting instead of attacking Apple.
- Stormbringer 16y ago
  I found the music very jarring and unsettling. I didn't care for the little spinning wheels/arrows everywhere, I have a really fast connection, I wonder if they could have loaded their flash faster somehow? I wanted to look for the resolution and it told me 720p, which I then had to go look up what that meant (I mean, I know it's a tv display format, but if someone had said WXGA I'd have needed a translation to pixels for that too). It didn't make me want to recommend one to someone else or buy one for myself. I don't recall a price. There are a lot of ways this could be improved. But hey, I thought the Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads were interesting, so what the heck do I know, eh?
seltzered 16y ago
Is it just me, or did anyone else not see anything that makes it stand out from the rest of the android tablets coming out.
senex 16y ago
I just tried to read this on my iPhone and it redirected me here: http://thetoshibatablet.com/mobile/apple.html http://thetoshibatablet.com/mobile/apple.html Such a shame :)
- raganwald 16y ago
  Oh, THAT is going to get me to tell all of my friends not to make the mistake of buying an iPad. And I ask: Is brochureware for a product shipping Real Soon Now really an "Interesting site on the Internet?" I don't think they're eating their own dogfood, I think they're drinking their own kool-aid.
YooLi 16y ago
If you visit from an iOS device, you get redirected to this page: http://thetoshibatablet.com/mobile/apple.html http://thetoshibatablet.com/mobile/apple.html Wouldn't it make more sense to advertise the device and list its features to a potential convert (I am visiting the site to check it out after all), than show me a "haha you can't see flash page". As soon as I saw the page I just hit back and moved onto something else, as most probably will. A red page without even an image of the device so I might later recognize it as the tablet that does flash isn't helping them much.
- glhaynes 16y ago
  Sounds like they don't think they have much chance of getting switchers from iOS.
  - Niten 16y ago
    You say this based on what, exactly? It sounds to me like they just need to finish working on their web site, and one can't really take more from it than that without inserting one's own personal biases.
    - raganwald 16y ago
      The page I saw insulted me. It didn't say "Hang on while we finish up here." I reserve the right to draw conclusions based on their tone, not just on their decision to skip building a cheap and simple web site.
      - zmmmmm 16y ago
        I suspect you are fulfilling exactly what they want out of the page - insulted iOS users foaming at the mouth, expressing their anger and propelling their new site into the headlines with accompanying controversy lasting several days. This will lead to yet more discussion about Flash and the iPad not supporting it which will trickle down to even non-tech users who will slowly absorb the controversy as a simple equation of "the iPad can't do something the Toshiba tablet can". I think it's a brilliant move.
Tichy 16y ago
How much will it cost?
j15e 16y ago
I am on my iPad and now that I clicked on that link and could not browse back because of the redirect I dislike toshiba even more. An on the ugly page is a ugly message. Trying to get Apple users to like Toshiba products : fail
- CamperBob 16y ago
  Incredibly stupid. "Hey, I've got an idea! When any one of a group of over ten million wealthy, technologically-inclined consumers visits our site, let's insult them!"
  - drivebyacct2 16y ago
    I'm what many might call an Android fanboy, but I have a hard time understanding these sorts of decisions made by companies. What iOS device owner is going to see that message and think "OMG I WANT A TOSH-TAB"?
    - zmmmmm 16y ago
      To me it looks like an attempt at viral marketing. Their market? Android fans. How do you get Android fans to look at your page? By putting up a controversial page making fun of apple users. I suspect that the kind of person who owns and iPad AND is offended by this is probably a market they are willing to write off in trade for huge publicity in Android circles - they might just be right.
      - drivebyacct2 16y ago
        I guess I'm having a hard time taking this thing that seriously compared to the Xoom. I mean, if Toshiba told me they were releasing full source at launch and include flashing utilities, I'd be ecstatic and would buy in a second. Like I said, I like Android and tinkering. I recognize that I'm a minority and I suspect Toshiba wants to move these puppies. -1? Really? The hardware looks inferior to the Motorola Xoom. The Toshiba has that awkward chrome and has hardware buttons when Honeycomb is eliminating them or making them redundant. I guess others are just uh super into Toshiba?
angryjim 16y ago
Really sharp looking flash advertisement.
drivebyacct2 16y ago
Unless they have a really competitive price point, it seems like they're going to be slaughtered by the Xoom.
brownleej 16y ago
I notice that, once you get through the video, it shows a bunch of bars that you can hover over to see previews. I wonder how their tablet is going to handle that, since the concept of hovering doesn't exist without a mouse. That bit of snark aside, this looks like a really impressive device. The cameras are a great addition, and if they put together some demos of video chatting, it could help them explain how they're better than an iPad in a way that really resonates with people, more than Flash and ports.
- ZeroGravitas 16y ago
  Touch works on the rollover menus, it only fires on finger/mouseup.

25 points by talbina 16y ago

mcav 16y ago

I had a Toshiba tablet (a Tecra M4). It now hangs on my wall as a Star-Trek-styled dashboard: http://d.pr/8Dyk http://d.pr/8Dyk

e1ven 16y ago
Nifty! Are you using an App for that, or is it custom?
- mcav 16y ago
  It's a webpage running full-screen on Chrome in Ubuntu. You can actually see it here: http://marcuscavanaugh.com/dashboard/ http://marcuscavanaugh.com/dashboard/ I tried using Geckoboard, but it wasn't customizable enough for what I was trying to accomplish.

btipling 16y ago

That's an ad full of win. It's very different from the off putting DROID eats your lunch and is smarter than you stuff from Verizon, doesn't look at all inspired or a derivative from Apple marketing and lists features that are interesting instead of attacking Apple.

Stormbringer 16y ago
I found the music very jarring and unsettling. I didn't care for the little spinning wheels/arrows everywhere, I have a really fast connection, I wonder if they could have loaded their flash faster somehow? I wanted to look for the resolution and it told me 720p, which I then had to go look up what that meant (I mean, I know it's a tv display format, but if someone had said WXGA I'd have needed a translation to pixels for that too). It didn't make me want to recommend one to someone else or buy one for myself. I don't recall a price. There are a lot of ways this could be improved. But hey, I thought the Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads were interesting, so what the heck do I know, eh?

seltzered 16y ago

Is it just me, or did anyone else not see anything that makes it stand out from the rest of the android tablets coming out.

senex 16y ago

I just tried to read this on my iPhone and it redirected me here: http://thetoshibatablet.com/mobile/apple.html http://thetoshibatablet.com/mobile/apple.html Such a shame :)

raganwald 16y ago
Oh, THAT is going to get me to tell all of my friends not to make the mistake of buying an iPad. And I ask: Is brochureware for a product shipping Real Soon Now really an "Interesting site on the Internet?" I don't think they're eating their own dogfood, I think they're drinking their own kool-aid.

YooLi 16y ago

If you visit from an iOS device, you get redirected to this page: http://thetoshibatablet.com/mobile/apple.html http://thetoshibatablet.com/mobile/apple.html Wouldn't it make more sense to advertise the device and list its features to a potential convert (I am visiting the site to check it out after all), than show me a "haha you can't see flash page". As soon as I saw the page I just hit back and moved onto something else, as most probably will. A red page without even an image of the device so I might later recognize it as the tablet that does flash isn't helping them much.

glhaynes 16y ago
Sounds like they don't think they have much chance of getting switchers from iOS.
- Niten 16y ago
  You say this based on what, exactly? It sounds to me like they just need to finish working on their web site, and one can't really take more from it than that without inserting one's own personal biases.
  - raganwald 16y ago
    The page I saw insulted me. It didn't say "Hang on while we finish up here." I reserve the right to draw conclusions based on their tone, not just on their decision to skip building a cheap and simple web site.
    - zmmmmm 16y ago
      I suspect you are fulfilling exactly what they want out of the page - insulted iOS users foaming at the mouth, expressing their anger and propelling their new site into the headlines with accompanying controversy lasting several days. This will lead to yet more discussion about Flash and the iPad not supporting it which will trickle down to even non-tech users who will slowly absorb the controversy as a simple equation of "the iPad can't do something the Toshiba tablet can". I think it's a brilliant move.

Tichy 16y ago

How much will it cost?

j15e 16y ago

I am on my iPad and now that I clicked on that link and could not browse back because of the redirect I dislike toshiba even more. An on the ugly page is a ugly message. Trying to get Apple users to like Toshiba products : fail

CamperBob 16y ago
Incredibly stupid. "Hey, I've got an idea! When any one of a group of over ten million wealthy, technologically-inclined consumers visits our site, let's insult them!"
- drivebyacct2 16y ago
  I'm what many might call an Android fanboy, but I have a hard time understanding these sorts of decisions made by companies. What iOS device owner is going to see that message and think "OMG I WANT A TOSH-TAB"?
  - zmmmmm 16y ago
    To me it looks like an attempt at viral marketing. Their market? Android fans. How do you get Android fans to look at your page? By putting up a controversial page making fun of apple users. I suspect that the kind of person who owns and iPad AND is offended by this is probably a market they are willing to write off in trade for huge publicity in Android circles - they might just be right.
    - drivebyacct2 16y ago
      I guess I'm having a hard time taking this thing that seriously compared to the Xoom. I mean, if Toshiba told me they were releasing full source at launch and include flashing utilities, I'd be ecstatic and would buy in a second. Like I said, I like Android and tinkering. I recognize that I'm a minority and I suspect Toshiba wants to move these puppies. -1? Really? The hardware looks inferior to the Motorola Xoom. The Toshiba has that awkward chrome and has hardware buttons when Honeycomb is eliminating them or making them redundant. I guess others are just uh super into Toshiba?

angryjim 16y ago

Really sharp looking flash advertisement.

drivebyacct2 16y ago

Unless they have a really competitive price point, it seems like they're going to be slaughtered by the Xoom.

brownleej 16y ago

I notice that, once you get through the video, it shows a bunch of bars that you can hover over to see previews. I wonder how their tablet is going to handle that, since the concept of hovering doesn't exist without a mouse. That bit of snark aside, this looks like a really impressive device. The cameras are a great addition, and if they put together some demos of video chatting, it could help them explain how they're better than an iPad in a way that really resonates with people, more than Flash and ports.

ZeroGravitas 16y ago
Touch works on the rollover menus, it only fires on finger/mouseup.