Toshiba has officially begun selling the dynaPad, its thinnest (read: thinnest 12-inch Windows tablet) yet, which the company announced at CES in Las Vegas this week, kicking off the shipping period after a months-long wait.
Announced back in October, the full HD display Windows-powered tablet was initially compared with Microsoft's Surface 4 Pro, where it received some mixed reviews. At 6.9 mm thick (or thin), or .27 inches, about the thickness of an iPhone 6, and weighing in at 1.28 pounds, the lightweight device touts an 1920x1280 HD display and showcases a 2 million pixel-ready interface, and a two-pane screen fitted with a metal mesh sensor in between. The reason? Toshiba's focus is primarily on the more traditional handwritten-linked potential of the pad, which the company hopes will "reinvent pen and paper" in the tablet market.
The dynaPad comes with a stylus (the Toshiba Active Electrostatics (ES) fine-tipped TruPen, featuring a digitizer that can support up to "2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity and writing or drawing capabilities from extreme angles"), as well as a magnetic detachable keyboard. The stylus from Wacom is also compatible with both Microsoft Edge and Office programs.
Listed at $569.99 USD, the pad also comes with a bevy of preloaded apps, including TruNote, TruCapture, TruRecorder, TruClip and TruNote Share.
The latest iteration of the device is the newest in the line, which has existed since Toshiba unveiled its first-ever tablet back in 1993, when the design resembled more of a bulky, oversize Palm Pilot than the sleek, decades-later upgrade.
"Precision digital inking technology is the next frontier of truly personal computing," said senior director of product marketing Philip Osako, who presides over the company's American sector of its Digital Products Division. "Advances in engineering and pen technology have enabled us to create an amazingly thin and light tablet that's ideal for instant creativity while also offering the versatility to immediately transition to a clamshell form factor for productivity."
The senior director also referred to it as "the ultimate digital notebook."
Via: Business Wire
