Case, Display, Haptics, Dock

The AT100s case has been wrapped in a cover mad of rubber. This gives the thing good grip but the tablet also becomes very thick. Furhtermore the subjective impression of build quality slides towards cheap whereas another surface material could generate a completely different impression. Holding the AT100 in ones hand and trying to bend it quite quickly shows that the stiffness of the case isn't very high, which is an indication for not that high build quality.



The display comes with 10.1 inch size and 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. This means that you get 16 : 9 aspect ratio which makes it suitable to watch a video on the go. Unfortunately the display is the major weakness of this product. Absolutely critical for a good tablet is, that you get a very good display if this isn't the case this seriously compromises the user experience. In this case the display lacks brightness as well as contrast. If you for example increase the brightness colors quickly seem washed out. Therfore it won't make it easier to read long texts. Furthermore the display is very glossy which bears the consequence that when you have sunlight directly shining onto the panel you won't be able to read text. On the other hand if you're in a closed room without light shining directly onto the display the user experience is quite pleasing.
We also noticed that sometime we hade to tap the display two or three time that the tablet performs a corresponding action. This makes the interaction with this thing not that comfortable.



What we liked very much was, that Toshiba equipped the AT100 with a full size USB and HDMI port. This makes it very easy to connect, let's say an external hard drive to the tablet or your TV. Furthermore there also are different lock buttons. One of which can be used to deactivate the tablets tilt functionality, which might be handy under certain circumstances.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - AnTuTu CPU and Graphics
Page 2 - Preview	Page 7 - AnTuTu Database and Memory Subsystem
Page 3 - Specifications	Page 8 - Vellamo Webbrowsing
Page 4 - Case, Display, Haptics, Dock	Page 9 - Battery Life
Page 5 - Test Setup	Page 10 - Conclusion

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