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With the Excite 10 LE, Toshiba bests the market-leading Apple iPad in a few areas, particularly size and weight, but falls short elsewhere, including with the disappointing 1280 x 800px display – really well too many denser displays exist for an electronics giant such as Toshiba to be settling for such a choice. Definite plusses for the Toshiba Excite 10 LE are its remarkable...

Toshiba's Encore Mini is touted as offering a full Windows PC experience in a 7in form factor. The question is: why would you want a full Windows PC experience in such a small device? by GoodGearGuide At $120 (£99 in the UK) this is pretty much a no-frills tablet featuring a 1,024x600-pixel-resolution multitouch display, a quad-core 1.83GHz Intel Atom processor, integrated graphics, and 16GB...

Toshiba’s first entry in the 8” tablet market, the Encore 8 is a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Item by item, the Toshiba Encore 8 specs list isn’t impressive per se, but the overall package is solid enough to appeal – particular with its reasonable price and Windows 8.1 operating system. The backside textured pattern notwithstanding, the appearance of the Toshiba...

If the main selling point of a tablet is a good version of Microsoft Windows as the operating system, warning bells should start ringing. Yes, the version of the Windows 8 OS does make things comfortable and easy for the user who no longer has to rely on some weak offerings from Windows Marketplace; unfortunately, the ZTE V98 tablet is fairly unremarkable thereafter. The...

The Zenithink ZT-180 ePad tablet is a mix of highs and lows. Clearly yet another response to the Apple iPad – just look at the derivative name of the device – the Zenithink ZT-180 actually outdoes the standard in a few areas while falling well short of even low-end performance in others. For positives, the Zenithink ZT-180 includes two USB ports and a micro...