Hope everyone had a great Father’s Day weekend. We had a Toshiba TV giveaway for this special occasion and the winner will be announced anytime now. I kept it short for this week’s roundup video, which touches on the new Google search features, some Apple news, tablets just out or coming soon, a few smartphone developments, and a bit of bad news from RIM. For the full list and video, continue after the cut.
Today is the day we all should show our love and appreciation to our paps for everything he's done for us. It is Father's Day and hopefully many of you will be able to spend it with your Dad. I know I will be and for that I'm thankful. Enough of the mushy talk, we have a TV to give away! Today from SlashGear courtesy of Toshiba we are giving away a 24" LED Flatscreen to a lucky father, keep reading to find out if you've won.
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We just wanted to shout out a little reminder to everyone that we have a giveaway going on. We are giving away a Toshiba 24" 1080p LED HDTV to one lucky father tomorrow. Have you entered yet? The rules are simple -- just make sure you like our SlashGear Facebook Page then leave a comment saying both "SlashGear" and "Toshiba" as well as why you think your father should win and post it on our wall.
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An LED TV is where the good stuff is at these days and we here at SlashGear have a brand spanking new Toshiba 24″ 1080p LED TV that is super thin and begs to hang graciously on your game room wall (or father’s I should say) and we are giving it away. Toshiba is know for bringing top of the line TV specs to market with an affordable price and this brand new 2011 model (SL410) is no different. Offering full 1080p with a 60 Hz refresh rate, ultra thin 1.5″ design and even a gaming mode for you hardcore gamers out there. This weekend one lucky father will win this beautiful TV.
Toshiba has unveiled a new TV in Japan that is very interesting. The set is called the Regza 19P2. As the model name hints, the TV has a 19-inch screen and is LED backlit to save power. The TV will ship early next month. The TV has a special battery pack that slips into the back of the set. In a power, outage where you still need to get weather information or want to finish your favorite show you can press a button to keep watching using the battery.
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Toshiba today announced four new laptop series for its Q3 lineup that meets all budgets and lifestyle needs. From the decked out Qosmio X770 gaming notebooks to the value-minded Satellite C600 sub-$500 notebooks. The launch also comes just in time for the summer back-to-school shopping season.
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Toshiba's Thrive tablet may not be the first Android slate to the market, but it's looking like that little extra time has given the company room to buff off some of the rough edges we've seen on other Honeycomb models. Up for pre-order today, priced from $429.99 for the 8GB model, the Thrive runs NVIDIA's 1GHz Tegra 2 dual-core but also throws in a full-sized HDMI port and full-sized SD card slot.
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The Toshiba Thrive, the company's first tablet, may finally arrive this summer. We first saw their Tegra 2 powered Android tablet back at CES, where it flaunted some pretty nice specs, but quickly dropped off the radar. And now it looks like it's ready to ship by July.
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Toshiba has ditched its Windows 7 tablet PC and Google Chromebook plans, according to the latest roadmap rumors, having been burned before on new segment experiments like Android smartbooks. The scheduled products have already been deleted from the agenda, according to DigiTimes' sources, while the Windows 7 tablet Toshiba demonstrated back at CES 2011 may be delayed or in fact never released at all.
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Toshiba first showed off its Tegra 2 powered Android tablet back at CES, and it was pretty impressive. But not much more has been revealed about its name, pricing, and launch date, except for the mention of a Toshiba Regza AT300 potentially priced at a whopping $700 for 16GB model. However, that was some time ago, and today we have evidence that Toshiba may be pricing its upcoming tablet more reasonably.
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Toshiba is readying a new gaming notebook, the Qosmio X770, which will also be available as a 3D version using NVIDIA's 3D Vision technology. The X770, Notebook Italia discovered, has a 17.3-inch 1920 x 1080 Full HD display packed into a distinctively-colored desktop replacement chassis; inside there's Intel's 2.0GHz Core i7-2630QM processor (with a 2.9GHz potential Turbo Boost overclock) and a pair of hard-drives, one of which is a hybrid HDD/SSD model.
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The 2011 SID (Society for Information Display) conference is going on this week in Los Angeles, and with that came news of many new display technologies that could be used in our future smartphones and tablets. Both Samsung and LG came out with new panels that could potentially be the next iPad display, while Toshiba came out with possibly the next iPhone screen.
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