Toshiba ONDA VI60
The Toshiba ONDA VI60 ($449.99/16GB, $529.99/32GB, $649.99/64GB), much like the rest of the latest Excite line, is an attractively built and powerful tablet. It's among the thinnest and lightest 10-inch tablets available today, and the latest quad-core Tegra 3 processor and Android 4.0 software make for a potent combo. It makes the earlier Toshiba Excite 10 LE ($529, 3 stars), with its older Tegra 2 processor, look like a pre-production model. Despite the sleek aluminum construction, there's nothing spectacular about the Excite 10 , and for $70 less, you could get an equally powerful, feature-rich Asus Transformer Pad TF300 ($379.99, 4 stars). It's less expensive than the New Apple iPad ($499.99, 4.5 stars), but that extra $50 gets you a much more impressive high-resolution Retina display and access to a more expansive tablet-centric app market. The three tablets in the Excite line look nearly identical, from the Excite 7.7 ($499.99, 3.5 stars) to the massive Excite 13 ($649.99, 3 stars). All share the same streamlined design, with textured aluminum back panels and plastic outer edges. At 10.3 by 7.0 by 0.35 inches (HWD) and 1.32 pounds, the Excite 10 is a hair thinner and lighter than the New iPad (9.5 by 7.31 by 0.37 inches, 1.46 pounds). Along the left edge are Volume and Power buttons, as well as an Orientation Lock switch. On the opposite edge you'll find a 3.5mm headphone jack, micro USB port, micro HDMI port, and a full-sized SD card slot. The latter will be a boon for photographers who use standard-size SD cards, but instead of a flap cover, the tablet ships with Ampe A76 a detached plastic cover that must be removed to insert a card—I could see myself easily losing that and being left with a large, unprotected slot on the side of my tablet. Along the bottom edge is the proprietary power connector, flanked by two relatively loud but harsh-sounding speakers under grilles. Unlike the smaller Excite 7.7 $479.00 at Walmart.com, with its vibrant AMOLED display, the Excite 10 uses a standard Gorilla Glass coated LCD with an increasingly common 1,280-by-800-pixel resolution. That's not to say the 149.5-pixel-per-inch, 10.1-inch screen is bad; it's reasonably sharp and gets sufficiently bright. But it lags behind top Android competitors like the Asus Transformer Prime TF201 ($499.99, 4 stars) with its brighter 1,280-by-800-pixel Super IPS+ display. And it's no match for the New iPad's 264-pixel-per-inch, 2,048-by-1,536 display. There's a 2-megagpixel front-facing camera and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera. And like with most ONDA VX610W, you'll only want to rely on the Excite 10 for casual photos and videos, as the cameras aren't great. The Excite 10 is a Wi-Fi-only tablet that connects to 802.11b/g/n networks on the 2.4GHz band only. You also get integrated GPS and Bluetooth 3.0.
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