Toshiba Excite Go hands-on

After snooping Toshiba’s upcoming line of tablets at the most recent Pepcom Digital Experience event in New York City, we thought that they couldn’t be any cheaper than the 8-inch model of the Toshiba Encore 2. Oh boy, were we wrong about that one! Yes folks, there’s an even cheaper tablet from them – the hard-to-believe $110 priced Toshiba Excite Go! Damn, we’ll be the first to admit that pricing is a huge factor, but are there any compromises with this one?

Design

Typical, bland, and cookie-cutter are all words that describe the Toshiba Excite Go, which is a compact 7-incher that’s easy to hold with one hand. Constructed from very cheap plastic materials, it doesn’t try to remotely differentiate itself in any positive way. Due to the plastic materials used by it, the tablet has a noticeable hollowness to it.

Display

Just as cringing, the Toshiba Excite Go’s 7-inch 1024 x 600 display is hardly a head turner. Not only is it sporting a very low resolution, which produces a pixel density count of 170 ppi, its washed out colors and poor viewing angles distorts everything on the screen to the point that it becomes unviewable. Trust us folks, our eyes just wanted to cringe the moment we checked out its display.