Asus has officially announced the Eee Pad Transformer Prime. The new transforming tablet will be made available in the US in December with a price tag of $499. What you get for your money is a unique device that comes with a tablet and detachable keyboard. This allows you to use the device as just a tablet, or carry around a keyboard in a laptop form factor for typing whilst on the go.
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Asus has launched a teaser page in preparation for the launch of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime. The device is a tablet that has an NVIDIA quad-core Kal-El processor inside (a Tegra 2).
The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the world's first tablet to feature Project Kal-El, NVIDIA's next-generation quad-core Tegra® mobile chip, giving birth to a new breed of high powered tablet devices. Armed with this technology, the Transformer Prime is blazing fast. In fact, we are setting a new industry standard for how fast a tablet should be. Multitasking and HD movies? Piece of cake.
ASUS has launched the Eee EP121 Slate. This particular tablet device runs the Windows 7 operating system.
The screen measures 12.1 inches and has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. The screen is also capacitive and has an electromagnetic panel that allows a stylus to be used for more precise input. [click to continue…]
ASUS has introduced several new tablets at CES 2011. The company seems to be following along with how the Eee PC's were shipped out, ie... loads of different varieties.
What ASUS is doing here is creating all these different variants so that it can test and see what sticks. [click to continue…]
Rumors are hinting that Samsung could be about to introduce another tablet to the market. Rather than following on from the Galaxy class range (ie, the Galaxy Tab), Samsung is believed to be making a tablet called the Gloria that will have a 10 inch screen and will run Windows. As well as being Windows based, we also hear that it will have a slide out QWERTY keyboard as well.
The image just above is not official by any means, but shows what the tablet "might" look like. Personally I think its a bad idea to put a sliding QWERTY on a device that large, but at this point we'll just need to see what Samsung plans it like. [click to continue…]
The iPad has been very successful for Apple [AAPL] with 3,000,000 selling in the first 80 days of launch. This high number of sales has effected netbook sales.
Thanks to Apple, ASUS is having to lower it's 3rd quarter 2010 shipments to 1.4 from 1.5 million the previous quarter. The 2nd quarter was also down from the 1st quarter which was 1.6 million. Normally, shipments would be starting to rise in time for Christmas, so it will be interesting to see what happens there. [click to continue…]
Commodore has created an ASUS Eee Keyboard style device called the Commodore Invictus.
Not much is known about the device at the moment other than it being Ion-based. The touchscreen to the right of the keyboard uses resistive touch with a stylus. Wireless HDMI is built in and it is believed to have a 5+ hour battery installed.
It also appears to be running Windows XP from what we see on the small screen in the picture. [click to continue…]
As well as announcing the ASUS Eee Tablet, ASUS also announced the ASUS Eee Pad.
The ASUS Eee Pad comes in two sizes. The smaller screen size is 10 inches with the larger screen size being 12 inches. The 10 inch model is called the Eee Pad EP101TC and runs Windows Embedded Compact 7 which appears to be a cut down version of Windows 7 and designed specifically for tablet devices.
The 12 inch Eee Pad is called the EP121 and runs Windows 7 Home Premium. This particular model runs a CULV Intel Core 2 Duo processor and is described as ASUS as being able to handle multitasking effortlessly. [click to continue…]
ASUS has announced two new netbooks called the ASUS Eee 1015P and the 1015PE. Each are fairly standard netbooks running the usual Intel Atom N450 processor. The screens on each device measure 10.1 inches and are backlit by LED. The resolution is 1024x600 pixels.
What makes the ASUS Eee 10015P/PE stand-out most though is the impressive 13.5 hour battery life that each model can achieve. Of course the tests that get 13.5 hours will be fairly easy going, but what a 13.5 hour battery life on an easy run means that with WiFi, full brightness and intensive applications you should still get a good 10 hours of usage on a single charge.
Each of the netbooks run Windows 7 Starter for the OS and both netbooks can connect up to Eee storage for an extra 500GB to store files on-line. [click to continue…]
Wortmann has launched a new netbook called the Wortmann Terra Mobile 1020Go. The company isn't really big in the netbook business and not really a company we have heard of before.
Either way, the Terra Mobile 1020Go packs the usual features which includes an Intel Atom N450 processor running at 1.66GHz. It has a 10.1 inch screen that is backlit by LED. Memory wise it has 1GB of RAM and for storage it has a 160GB hard disk drive.
Wireless LAN on the netbook can connect to 802.11b/g networks. The netbook uses the NM10 Express Chipset along with Intel GMA3150 integrated graphics. [click to continue…]
Amazon are finally starting to ship the ASUS EeeKeyboard. This comes months from the initial announcement with some people thinking it would actually never happen.
Either way, you can now grab one from Amazon costing $599 with free super saver shipping.
The ASUS EeeKeyboard is a unique device that actually puts a computer in the keyboard. Powering the keyboard is an Intel Atom N270 processor. It has 1GB of DDR2 memory and it runs Windows XP Home.
A transmitter is included that can communicate with an external receiver allowing you to connect the keyboard up to a HDTV wirelessly. The keyboard also has wireless LAN that can connect up to 802.11b/g/n networks. Wired LAN is also included for 10/100/1000 connections. Bluetooth 2.1 is also included. [click to continue…]
ASUS are launching another netbook. This wont come as a surprise as we tend to mention several new models each month from their Eee range.
The next one being released is believed to be the ASUS Eee 1015P. It has just passed FCC approval meaning we could be seeing it within the next month or so.
We first heard of the Eee 1015P back in February with some leaked information saying it would run an Intel Atom N450 processor and have Wireless 802.11n for connectivity. The keyboard is chiclet style. [click to continue…]