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Toshiba Thrive Unboxing and Battery Removal Shown Here (Video)

Posted by on August 12, 2011 No comments


We’ve just received a Toshiba Thrive Honeycomb tablet for testing and we’re proceeded to the unboxing and battery removal, for you all to see. The Thrive is an older friend of ours, since we’ve played with this unit back in the day of Mobile World Congress and now we have the unit for review.

This 10.1 inch tablet comes with a big black box, that includes a bunch of manuals, some pamphlets with accessories, an USB cable and the two-piece charger, that’s actually a huge accessory. In order to access the removable battery of the Toshiba Thrive, you need to remove its back cover, by first unlocking it with a special side button.

After that it’s as simple as removing a HTC phone case, for example, provided that you have long enough nails. The battery needs two button pushed before exiting its special slot, that reveals some internal tablet components, shown in our video. And then we started the slate and revealed the custom Toshiba apps that the maker implemented on its tablet. We’ll be back with a full review in a couple of days, but till then, you should remember that the rumors about the tablet not waking up from sleep mode are sadly true.

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  3. ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Versus Toshiba Thrive (Video)


Toshiba Thrive Gains Sleep Fix

Posted by on August 3, 2011 2 comments

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Toshiba has issued an update to the Honeycomb tablet that kept users from being able to use the device. The wake functionality would malfunction, causing the device to become a temporary paperweight until it decided to play nice. Fortunately, Toshiba put on a nice, big red cape and came to everyone’s rescue. An OTA update for the tablet is now available through Toshiba’s Service Station utility, an app on the Thrive (hope you haven’t somehow removed it). Go on and check for it, we hear it should be a relatively quick download.