Toshiba Thrive tablet with Android 3.1 ships in July, starts at $429

That Toshiba Thrive tablet that surfaced on J&R’s site last month? Seems, someone got slightly excited — the corporate just confirmed the listing went up prematurely and that the cost was wrong. But, we just got word that the Thrive will indeed debut as Tosh’s first tablet for the united states market with pre-orders beginning June 13th at Best Buy, in conjunction with the standard “office superstores” and “e-commerce players,” and a mid-July ship date (we’re hearing the 10th). The ten.1-inch (1280 x 800) tablet runs Android 3.1, and is derived in three sizes: 8GB ($429), 16GB ($479), and 32GB ($579). Not bad, when you think about the 16GB model undercuts the Galaxy Tab 10.1 by $20.

If you have been following along, you recognize it’s powered by Tegra 2 and has WiFi, Bluetooth, full-sized USB and HDMI ports, an SD slot, a 2 MP front-facing camera, and a 5MP rear one. However the company also just unleashed a slew of different details. Head on past the break for a run-down, won’t you?

The Thrive’s got a haptic display and a button to fasten the screen orientation. It also comes with a Toshiba-branded file manager and Swype pre-installed — though, as always, you are able to switch to the stock Android keyboard. Tosh also bundled its Resolution Plus software, which it already uses to wash up and upscale video in its TVs and laptops. And, it also has a removable battery that’s rated as much as seven hours of continuing HD video playback, and promises to recharge as much as 90 percent in an hour and a half.

We’re stoked to deal with this type of in person, as you are able to imagine, but for the time being we’re somewhat occupied with the burden: at 1.6 pounds, it’s about as heavy because the first-gen iPad, which, like, scads of different tablets, have since gone on a diet. However, Tosh was late to the netbook market and served up the most efficient valuable minis of all time, and few other tablet permit you to swap out the battery, so we’ll just need to reserve judgment until we get such a bad boys in to check.

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