Toshiba Sells Lighter Tablet - NYTimes.com January 13, 2012, 6:41 am LAS VEGAS -Toshiba unveiled a tablet it claimed to be the lightest and thinnest in its class, the 10-inch Excite X10. Made of a magnesium alloy, the tablet weighs 1.18 pounds and is a third of an inch thick. It's strength and rigidity is enhanced by a Corning Gorilla Glass 10-finger multi-touch screen. The iPad 2, by comparison, is 0.34 inches thick and weighs 1.33 pounds. The screen is treated with a smudge resistant coating, which was showing wear from thousands of hands at the International Consumer Electronics Show here. Despite its slim size, the tablet has retained a Micro USB 2.0 port, a Micro HDMI port and a Micro SD card slot. It has a front-facing c2-megapixel camera and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with an LED flash. The X10 has a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connection but no ability to connect to a mobile phone network because the company said most people prefer to use a phone as a hotspot and not have another plan to subscribe to. Toshiba will not beat the iPad on price. Its tablet is slated to be available in two configurations, a $530 16GB version and a $600 32GB version in March.