Stopped by Best Buy yesterday to look at the Toshiba Thrive tablet. This one looks to me to be a real winner. If you are shopping for a tablet and are looking beyond the ubiquitous iPad, take a look at this one.
Android OS, 10" screen, two cameras, stereo speakers, full-sized USB and HDMI ports, replaceable battery.
It's heavier (by a bit, but not much — 1.4 lbs for my Transformer versus 1.7 lbs for the Thrive) that the others in its size range, but the full-sized ports, replaceable battery, and better, louder speakers make at a contender. If I didn't already own a Transformer, this is the one I'd buy today.
Speaking of weight, lots of folks are making a basic mistake about this in their reviews and comments. I so often see that this tablet weighs an ounce or two more or less than this other tablet, blah, blah, blah. Comparing tablets is not all that real-world in my way of thinking. If I want to save weight, I'll take my phone or my Kindle reader, both of which weigh a fraction of any tablet. If weight is not really an issue, then I'll often take my netbook and have full PC capabillities. That is, when it comes to a real-world decision about what I take with me at any given moment, it's a use capabilities/weight trade off. The spectrum of possibilities runs from smartphone to Kindle Keyboard to (eventually) the Kindle Fire to a tablet to my netbook to a laptop. Or sometimes, just nuttin'. It's against this type of thinking that the extra weight of the Thrive over other Android tablets seems insignificant to me.
[For comparison, the Kindle Fire weighs 0.91 lbs., the Kindle Keyboard weights 0.52 lbs, and my Atrix phone weighs 0.3 lbs. The iPads 1/2 weigh 1.6 and 1.3 lbs respectively. And nuttin' weighs nuttin'.]