It seem that Toshiba themselves are also not fond of their Honeycomb tablet being called the Ant. “Hey mate, gooday, say, I want to buy an Ant!” Right, that’s going to sound rather blurry. Good news, as Toshiba may just skip that name and call it another thing altogether.

Toshiba just filled a trademark application for the name “Thrive” last week and, as you can see above, it clearly describes the goods and services being trademarked as a tablet computer.

What’s more, it seems that the company’s also gone on a bit of a domain name buying spree as of late, with it snapping up a number of “Thrive” variations including ToshibaThrive.com, ThriveTablet.com, ThriveToshiba.com and TabletThrive.com (none of which actually go anywhere just yet).

Of course, this isn’t the first possible moniker for the tablet that’s cropped up. The name “Antares” surfaced way back at Mobile World Congress, which could account for the ANT model name we also spotted, although it certainly sounds more like a codename than “Thrive” does to our ears. What’s more, Toshiba hasn’t go and trademark this “Antares” name and hasn’t go and sapu all those URLs related to “Antares”.

SOURCE via Engadget