Toshiba Encore 2 WT10-A32 10.0-Inch 32 GB Tablet, Gold

I love this tablet. It really is great, especially for how cheap you can get it! I got mine for $100 off of amazon including shipping. I think the speakers are good, I like the look/feel of it. Great brand and very reliable. But, I've owned it for only two days and let's just say it's given me a heart attack because it wouldn't turn on. But I unplugged it and let the battery completely drain the plugged it back in and thank goodness. I love Toshiba and would've hated to write a bad review, even though it did this. It's fun to have the magic touch to turn it back on you know, even though it's not even a magic touch in anyway shape or form…

Once upgraded to Windows 10 I had a lot more respect for this tablet. The windows operating system pretty much turns the tablet into a miniature touch enabled PC. Unfortunately it needs more RAM if it's going to behave like one. With only 1Gb RAM it stutters and staggers a bit and you have to get used to a couple of seconds delay. However, if you're just using it to do simple tablet like functions then you're not going to be disappointed. One thing I did like was the inclusion of a one year free subscription to Office 365, which includes a ITB allocation of cloud storage on one drive, this tablet pays for itself right there. I would also recommend an OTG adaptor that you can plug a mouse in with, you can get by on touch, but if you're like me you'll find yourself using it more like a miniature PC and a mouse just makes that easier. A mini SD slot makes memory expandable to 128Gb, and you can load some/most apps on the external storage. Having said that something seems to have gone wrong with transferring these apps over to external storage with the latest update to Windows 10 and I have not had much luck in shifting apps over. I have ordered a new SD card which will hopefully sort that out. The screen resolution is also a bit disappointing, I would have preferred an HD screen, but at this price it's not too much of an issue. That's the thing with this tablet, you're getting a pretty good package for the price you're paying. You would have to pay much more for equivalent functionality in iOS or Android. Bottom line, a great tablet for the price and if you're prepared to compromise on snappy performance for price and function then you can't go wrong with this tablet.

Cannot say enough great things about this tablet. No compromises. Its a perfect windows 8 build. You can run any app you want. That being said I would not expect you to be able to run adobe photoshop but everything else is fair game. Screen: Great quality, nice and bright, and can get very dim for dark rooms. I have no problem playing 720p or 1080p mkv or divx files on this tablet with the VLC player. Reading is pleasant on the eyes. You can view the tablet from basically any angle you like. Speakers: Uhh. These speakers are way way better than they have any right to be. Actually quite impressive. You don't even have to turn them all the way to be able to hear it. Wireless: Wireless N at the house. Speeds are great. I have not personally had any issues with the wireless or the bluetooth running at the same time. My speed tests max out my 50mbs down bandwidth. Responsiveness: Tablet is perfect. It runs and runs all kinds of apps. Usually I got my bookviser and my full firefox browser going at the same time. Browsing even big web pages is not choppy. Plays youtube videos right out of the box through the browser. Book page turning is what you would expect. Would caution that at 1gb of RAM you should not expect this to be a multitasking power house. Battery: I have been getting about 7 hours of constant video watching out of the tablet with the brightness turned down to like 25%. Just using the web and reading books, you could expect to get the full 9-11 hours out of the tablet. The best part is when you let it go to sleep, it doesnt waste battery like the android tablets do.

These are very nice tablets, but the absence of a second USB connection is a BIG downer.

To start with, this tablet has no USB port. Not even one. Once I got the tablet and noticed that flaw, I figured I could live with it. Big mistake. It really should have been a deal breaker. I really wanted to love this tablet - I have a friend with an iPad and I watched her magically zip through Candy Crush with her fingers. Not being an Apple person, I decided to try the world of tablets with my go-to laptop company, Toshiba. Big mistake. The screen is extremely temperamental in that it sometimes responds ok, usually poorly and sometimes not at all. (Time to reboot.) Forget an interactive-intensive game like Candy Crush, I'd just like to reliably get on CNN.com. It responds very poorly to a wireless keyboard that is so close to the tablet that they're nearly touching. The battery drains very quickly, even when the tablet is in sleep mode, and replacing the battery is not an option available to end users. I'd have to send it to a repair shop. For now, I use it as a Kindle, but either have to recharge it after an hour or two of use or keep it plugged in while reading. I've purchased several Toshiba laptops for my business and have been quite happy with them, but this tablet really misses the mark. Consider yourself warned.