Toshiba AT300

At just under 9mm thick, the AT300 doesn’t match its 7.7mm predecessor but is still one of the slimmest tablets going.

In Toshiba’s case, it made the AT200 the thinnest tablet of its kind in the world, with some of the best connectivity of any standalone tablet to go with it.

In other words, it actually appears less slim than it is, but that’s no bad thing and we like the look.

Now the Japanese company is back with its AT300, taking all the good bits from the previous tablet, increasing thickness only slightly and chucking in Tegra 3 to make for a potential winner.

However, it still gives you the best connection range of any slim 10 incher.

While we don’t see any tablet challenging the ThinkPad Tablet or Transformer Pad 300with dock for connectivity, the AT300 is still top of the slim standalone 10in tablet class, as it offers not only a headphone/microphone jack, microHDMI and microUSB, but also a full-size SDXC card slot.

Colours seemed vibrant and backlighting reasonably even, though we will need to test it in the lab to give a definitive verdict.

Google’s Android 4 is the operating system running the show, with minimal customisation and a few pre-installed apps.

While all the tablet’s connections are located on the right, the left houses the power button, a tactile volume rocker and handy orientation lock switch.

Its significantly rounded corners already differentiate it from the ‘squarer’ crowd, and it flat design with broad edges further helps it stand out from its tapered rivals.