Toshiba has unveiled two new BD recorders namely the BDR-Z260 and BDR-Z250. The BDR-Z260 offers a 2TB of hard disk drive, while the BDR-Z250 provides a smaller 1TB of hard disk drive. Both models are equipped with two Digital TV tuners, USB Video recording, DLNA support and a remote controller. Unfortunately, there is no info on pricing at this time. [Akihabara]
Your wallet is on diet? Don’t worry Toshiba has for you’re the perfect 40” TV with the 40S5! Announced at just 85,000 Yen the 40S5 comes with a 40” LED Backlight panel offering a nice 5,100,000 dynamic contrast, REGZA Engine, USB HDD Recording, a 10Wx2ch speaker setting, a Digital TV Tuner but unfortunately no DLNA Support or 3D.
Toshiba knows that there are different kinds of users when it comes to the world of consumer electronics, which is why where the TV market is concerned, they have decided to position their most recent addition to the Regza family as an entry level device. Known as the Toshiba Regza Dynamic 40S5, it will clearly target the entry level market by offering adequate bang for your hard earned buck in the form of a 40” LED backlit TV. If your wallet is on a diet, fret not – after all, this particular bad boy is going for a mere 85,000 yen, which translates to roughly $1,090.
As for the features found in the Regza Dynamic 40S5, you can expect to enjoy the aforementioned 40” LED backlit panel in addition to a 5,100,000 dynamic contrast, Toshiba’s very own Regza Engine, USB hard drive recording capability, a 10W x 2ch speaker setting, and a Digital TV Tuner. Since it walks on the budget side of things, you can forget about add-ons such as DLNA support and 3D capability.
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China Times is reporting that Microsoft is only letting an elite few companies build Windows RT tablets in order to focus its research and development resources. It reportedly asked three chipmakers to pick up to two OEMs to bring inside the tent, with NVIDIA grabbing ASUS and Lenovo, TI snagging Toshiba and Qualcomm selecting Samsung and HP. However, the latter company dropped out of the program to concentrate on x86 machines, so it’s rumored that Dell’s currently jockeying to take its place. The first wave of completed tablets will arrive on October 26th, and Redmond won’t open up the market until January next year — so expect Windows RT to be the buzz-word CES 2013.
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I clearly remember the Blu-ray vs HD DVD war many moons ago, and in the end, Sony’s Blu-ray format won the battle – but how has the uptake for Blu-ray movies been so far? DVDs certainly still rule the roost in many parts of the world, mainly thanks to the cost of converting your entire movie library into the Blu-ray format. Well, Toshiba has since jumped over to the Blu-ray divide, and they now debut a couple of slim slot-in BDXL recorders known as the BDR-Z260 and BDR-Z250.
The two of them will come in a slim design as mentioned above, where Toshiba claims that they are 64% more compact compared to its predecessors. They will also sport a couple of Digital TV tuners, in addition to 2TB of storage space for the Z260, while the Z250 has a smaller capacity at half that amount. Shared specifications include USB connectivity, USB video recording capability and DLNA with Network Recording capacity as long as there is some compatible hardware in the vicinity. No idea on pricing as at press time though.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: New Toshiba REGZA RB2 TVs come with Blu-ray players, Toshiba dynabook T551/D8B is a 3D-enhanced laptop,
Confusingly announced by Fujitsu, the Toshiba Regza T-02D will settle into a wall of similarly bright-colored, good-looking smartphones in NTT DoCoMo stores starting this week. The (Japan-only) phone’s 4.3-inch OLED screen holds onto a middling qHD resolution, but Fujitsu says its “new AMOLED Plus technology” will apparently render in higher clarity than any of its preceding smartphone displays — we’ll wait to see it in action before coming to any conclusions. There’s no word on who’s behind the dual-core 1.5GHz processor, but Xi connectivity (how Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo brands its LTE provision) makes a Qualcomm chipset likely. Fujitsu is also pushing the phone’s ‘human-centric’ Android skin, like what we saw on its own quad-core slab). This involves a collection of UI tweaks to the base Android 4.0 OS, including Intellicolor, where the phone will sense the color of ambient light and tweak the display accordingly. The phone’s 13.1-megapixel camera reaches an impressively high ISO level of 25600, running on Sony’s back-illuminated Exmor R sensor, while Fujitsu’s also channeled the ghost of the original Motorola Atrix, resurrecting a fingerprint unlock sensor. Other features worth mentioning include high-definition NOTTV compatibility, plus certified water and dust resistance. As is expected from the world of Japanese smartphones, there’s a selection of colors too — the T-02D will be available in Pink, Black and Blue from launch. Japan residents wondering exactly which company made the phone can try to get their head around the full release below.
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Toshiba REGZA T-02D smartphone launches in Japan: ‘New AMOLED Plus’ display, old resolution originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Behold Toshiba’s latest BD Recorder with the BDR-Z260 and BDR-Z250. Both models come with slim design and slot-in BDXL Recorder and are announced to be 64% more compact that previous models. Featuring a Pair of Digital TV Tuners both models comes with an additional internal HDD of 2TB for the Z260 and 1TB for the Z250, as well as USB Support and USB Video recording and DLNA with Network Recording capacity on compatible hardware.
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!
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While they’re not busy designing laptop/tablet hybrids with built-in styluses, Toshiba has been busy working on some new Tecra laptops as well. Designed for small business users, the Tecra R940 and Tecra R950 are touted to have everything a small or medium business needs: increased durability, spill resistant keyboards, hard drive impact sensor and a shop absorbing design ensure your important files don’t get lost when your computer is damaged.
Both models can be configured with 3rd gen Intel Core processors, dedicated AMD graphics, up to 16GB of memory, and are pretty portable with a weight of less than 5.3 pounds and a width of only one inch. Prices for the new Tecra laptops begin at $599.99 and are available from ToshibaDirect.com. Links to the product pages below:
[Tecra R940 | Tecra R950 | Press Release]
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Last month, Toshiba gave its Tecra line the Ivy Bridge treatment, outing the enterprise-focused R940 and R950 with fingerprint readers and the Smart Client Manager. Today it circled back to give smaller businesses something new, though the company confusingly chose the same naming scheme for its more budget-priced Tecra machines. Not to be confused with the corporate crowd’s Tecra R940 and R950, these two models are available only through ToshibaDirect, and they forgo some of the higher-end business security features like the fingerprint reader to keep the price down. The 14-inch Tecra R940 starts at $600 and can be configured with a third-gen Intel CPU, optional AMD dedicated graphics and up to 16GB of RAM. The 15.6-inch Tecra R950 also goes for $600 and up, and both laptops can be configured with 320GB hard drives all the way up to 512GB SSDs. Check out the presser below, and you can hit up the product pages to check out the full configuration options.
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