Toshiba dual screen tablet PC

admin on 06 25, 2010

The Japanese technology firm Toshiba on Monday launched a dual-screen mini-note can be used as electronic reader, which adds to the competition against Apple’s IPAD and the Kindle from Amazon.com.

The new tablet PC, which can be used as a conventional laptop keyboard, or turn 90 degrees and use it as an electronic book, will go on sale in Japan in late August and later in Europe, America and other markets.

Toshiba Libretto unveiled the W100 into a luxurious event in Tokyo that also celebrated the quarter century since it launched the first notebook in the world in 1985, although its personal computer division made losses of about $ 97 million in the fiscal year ending March.

The company expects its PC division to achieve financial balance this year.

The new touch screen device will not revolutionize the digital player market at this time because the company has yet to reach agreements with content providers.

But its executives wanted to emphasize that the Libretto, which provide sell about ($ 1,320) or 120,000 yen in Japan, compared to $489 from $499 kindle or the IPAD offers more than a passive experience of “consumption.”

“The IPAD is likely Apple is creating a new market in terms of consumption of information, navigation and reading books, “said Masahiko Fukakushi, president and chief executive of the unit of digital products and networks Toshiba, told reporters.

“But in regard to development or production (…) what we’ve been doing has great value. We want to continue doing both, “he said.

Toshiba is the fourth largest notebook vendor in the world after HP, Acer and Dell.

Notebook Orders jumped 43 percent in the quarter January to March, its highest growth in eight years, according to tracking firm Gartner industry.

Toshiba aims to distribute 25 million PCs in the fiscal year ending March 2011.