Toshiba Excite Pro Thread (and a question): 10.1" 2560*1600 IPS, Tegra 4, 2Gb RAM

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Fingers crossed for you. I think that the tablet is worth a lot more than the £169 I have paid for it and, after the several updates, the performance seems fine for my use. Whilst I could not really afford such a "toy" this close to Christmas I am so glad that I did not deliberate too long and miss this deal.
 
Picked mine up from PC World yesterday. £165 after the £30 cashback and £5 quidco! :eek:

I will let you know what i think of it after xmas as i am keeping it as a treat for myself!
 
Vimes said:
I am so glad that I did not deliberate too long and miss this deal.
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Indeed. I was debating it with myself as i wasnt sure i really needed a tablet but thought it would be useful for holidays/being lazy and watching things in bed ( i dont have a laptop, only a desktop). So glad i ordered it on tuesday night as the following morning it went back up to £269.99 and the cashback offer expired!! Nothing comes close specification wise for the money.

So tempted to have a play but I want to keep it so i can open it on xmas!
 
Quadrant

Nuff said!

I know its a crappy benchmark & probably doesn't fully use the hardware, but you get the idea.
Big deal if the tablet is not as thin as an iPad or has as nice a screen as a Samsung, but 300dpi at 2560x1536 everything is very sharp.
It can even play 3D 4k videos through the HDMI.

I think its camera is a bit naff & the on the fly HDR is wasted but its a tablet not a camera.
The lack of root atm is also annoying & the OS from Toshiba is not the best.
 
There are some bloatware Toshiba programmes, I disabled them apart from OS updates. Maybe one year Toshiba will move to jb4.3.
There is minor lag switching between screens which my galaxy nexus on KitKat does not have. Whenever I've monitored the CPU usage there has rarely been more than 1 core used. The stock launcher is a bit stuttery but nova launcher is much smoother.

If this tab had root & a good dev scene it would be awesome.
 
I suppose if it had root then I could remove some of the preinstalled apps, rather than disable them. But overall I think Toshiba did a pretty good job at keeping it reasonably bloat free.
I use the "browser" rather than Chrome and it seems responsive enough. I installed Print app has been excellent at finding my Canon cloud supported printer, and so can print direct from the tablet.
I am using the latest beta Nova Launcher, bought that ages ago for one of my phones, and that seems to be smoother than the default one, also I can remove the persistent Google search bar.
It would have been nice though to have had root, but that is not going to happen.
My wife's Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet is also standard and that seems fast and responsive, albeit quite different hardware wise from my Toshiba.

Apart from unlocking and rooting my Nexus 7 I gave up ages ago with custom ROM's, as there was typically an odd issue or two which caused problems, and KitKat seems a little underwhelming in what it offers, for me.
 
juno_first said:
If this tab had root & a good dev scene it would be awesome.
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Jono8 said:
Indeed. If they unlock the bootloader for this, i will be so happy.
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Vimes said:
I suppose if it had root then I could remove some of the preinstalled apps, rather than disable them. But overall I think Toshiba did a pretty good job at keeping it reasonably bloat free.
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Personally i dont think getting root access would improve this tablet a lot as it is pretty much running stock android as it is.

I *think* it would need an unlocked bootloader for custom roms to be used which would be VERY exciting! :D



(this may be incorrect as sometimes i get the terminology confused :p)
 
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