Toshiba Thrive Available for Pre-Order at Best Buy

Toshiba's Thrive tablet is now available for pre-order online at www.bestbuy.com, and at all Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile standalone stores, with full retail availability in mid-July. The Thrive is priced at $449.

The Thrive (previously called the "Toshiba Tablet") is an Android 3.1 tablet featuring a 10.1-inch diagonal high-resolution (1280x800) multi-touch LED backlit display, the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, dual cameras (2-megapixel front-facing webcam, and a 5-megapixel rear camera), integrated microphone, 1GB DDR2 memory, built-in 802.11b/g/n wireless, Bluetooth 3.0, and an SD card slot.

"Next generation tablets like the Thrive Tablet by Toshiba exemplify what our customers are looking for - a stylish look, amazing graphics and audio, and a full range of ports so they can easily connect it to their other digital products, from hard drives to HDTVs," said Scott Wallace, senior director of tablet merchandising at Best Buy. "Thrive will be a great addition to an experience that enables customers to test and try a broad selection of many leading tablet brands at Best Buy."

For more information visit www.bestbuy.com/tablets.