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Toshiba Australia boss waves tablet around

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By Tony Smith

Posted in Tablets, 21st July 2010 12:03 GMT

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And now Toshiba's in on the act [1]. Yes, the Japanese laptop pioneer has an iPad-style tablet in the works, set to debut in a few months' time and running Android and/or Windows 7.

Toshiba this week took the wraps off its new Portégé R700 skinny laptop, its Libretto M100 dual-screen netbook and the AC100 Arm-based 'smartbook' in Australia.

PC Authority Toshiba Tablet Pic

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Source: Australian PC Authority

We've seen them all before - Toshiba [2] showed them off in London last month. We wrote up our experiences with the AC100 here [3], and the W100 here [4].

What the Poms didn't see is a "prototype" tablet - 10in by the look of it - as waved around by Toshiba Australia Managing Director Mark Whittard and snapped [5] by local mag Australian PC Authority.

Whittard didn't provide details - "No specs please, we're Australian" - but he did say they will come in Android and Windows 7 flavours. The first ones will be out - Down Under, presumably - in the "September-October timeframe", says the magazine.

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