Toshiba joins the tablet war: The Toshiba Tablet Folio 100 with Android 2.2

I hope in the end, there will be more Android tablets than rumours. Another hot candidate is Toshiba with their Android tablet, often called Tablet Folio 100 or Toshiba SmartPad, on the sites where the rumours emerged, like netbookitalia.it (see articles here: 1, 2). Toshiba is also expected to unveil their device this week at the upcoming IFA in Berlin.

These are the pictures netbookitalia.it spreaded:

Now this we will be a very hot IFA this year. Steve Jobs won’t be very happy these days. The Toshiba device seems very convincing, not only because there is a big company behind. The hardware, the 3G support and the docking solution are fine, as long as we know until now (and if these specs, most spread by notebookitalia.it are really true). A weak point could be battery life. Also we don’t have any reliable information about display quality or the price.

Note that the apps in the first picture are labelled in german. Toshiba is ready for the IFA. So let’s wait some days until Toshiba lifts the veil…. I am soooo curious!

UPDATE SEPT 2, 2010: Sascha from netbooknews.de had the occasion to get the Folio 100 in his hands and closer took a look at the outside of the device: