The Thrive allows you to spice up your tablet with swappable back plates in one of five extra colors, in addition to the black back plate included with it. Toshiba The Toshiba Thrive Honeycomb tablet has garnered a lot of interest due to the fact that one, it’s a tablet in the year 2011, and …

The Toshiba Thrive is a Honeycomb tablet. Just check out those icons if you’re in doubt. Josh Miller/CNET Tablets are generally expected to be “thin and light” small computers with unobtrusive interfaces. Some tablets are thinner and lighter than others, however. While we’ve praised tablets like the iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1 for their sleekness, and dinged the HP …

The Sony S2 definitely looks slick. ZDNET It looks like Sony’s partnership with AT&T will go beyond the PSP Vita. On Wednesday AT&T announced that it will be the exclusive broadband provider for the Sony S2 tablet. Sony Electronics’ Senior Vice President of Networked Technology and Services Division Mike Lucas said, “AT&T provides the speed and coverage that are integral …

Now playing: Watch this: BlackBerry PlayBook vs. HP TouchPad 5:26 Now, we could have taken the obvious route with our latest tablet Prizefight. The HP TouchPad is the new tablet kid on the block and of course the “on the nose” comparison would be the iPad 2. Less on the nose, but almost as obvious would pit the TouchPad against …

The best competitor to the Apple iPad 2 so far, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Josh Miller/CNET I posted a full review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 last week. Today, the tablet finally goes on sale nationwide. On Thursday, I posted a comparison blog and video featuring the Tab 10.1 and the iPad 2. Sure, that’s a lot of …

Android 3.1 as it appears on an unspecified Android tablet. Google When Google announced Android 3.1 Honeycomb was coming to the Xoom last week, I was pretty excited. Honeycomb’s already a great tablet OS, so any improvements could only add to its functionality and efficiency. Unfortunately the version 3.1 update was released over the air and was rolled out in …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 2:00 Editor’s note: The full review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 can be found here. If there’s one thing I’ve realized in my short stint covering tablets, it’s that apparently there can never be too many Honeycomb-based products in the wild. Today, at Google’s I/O conference, the company gave away 5,000 …

Verizon’s iPhone 4, same as the old one? Josh P. Miller/CNET Editor’s note: The “A few notes about the tests” section was added to make the testing methodology clearer. Soon the iPhone 4 will be available to everyone who patiently waited (years, for some) for Apple to offer it through a service provider with a better service history. Over the …

Eric Franklin/CNET Editors’ note: If you’ve already read “Battle Royale: Five smartphones face off”, “Battle Royale 2: Smartphones face off, screen to screen”, or “Battle Royale 3: The Final Conflict” (which, you know, didn’t really pan out given the article you’re currently reading), then you may experience some deja vu when reading this article. We’ve used the same tests and …

I really need to come up with a more exciting way to shoot these things. Eric Franklin/CNET Editors’ note: If you’ve already read “Battle Royale: Five smartphones face off” or “Battle Royale 2: The Quickening” (OK, it wasn’t actually called “The Quickening”), then you may experience some deja vu when reading this article. We’ve used the same tests and presented …