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11th March 2010

Toshiba Home Tablet

Toshiba in now in line to give some competition to the iPad by developing it’s own home tablets. The company’s US notebook lead Jeff Barney said in comments today. He anticipates a line of devices to arrive either by late this year or early 2011. No further details were provided on what the devices would involve but Barney acknowledged that Toshiba would likely have to move fast to claim a stake in the market before Apple iPad and others risk crowding it out.

Toshiba is already involved in tablets business as it launched the Journe Touch in Europe late last year, but it’s unlikely that device or a revision of it will be what reaches the US. It was conceived more as a mobile Internet device and has a custom, fully-contained version of Windows CE that doesn’t allow third-party apps. What OS it would use instead isn’t clear: Toshiba has been one of Microsoft’s most loyal devotees and has seldom used a non-Windows OS, but Windows 7 would require conventional, bulkier x86 processors that haven’t been found in most tablets unveiled this year.

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