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Taiwanese tech giant ASUS will be launching its first Android tablet - the Eee Pad - next March, said CEO Jerry Shen at his company's quarterly earnings call, and reported on by PCWorld.
There were no further details revealed apart from the price, which will be below $400. We understand that it will have a ten inch screen and run an ARM-based SoC, but not necessarily NVIDIA's Tegra.
Apparently Shen also said there will be a 12 inch version coming out on December or January, running an Intel Core 2 Duo and Windows 7. This will be the EP121 we pictured at Computex and is expected to come in at a grand, complete with a docking station that effectively turns it into a notebook. For that kind of money, it should turn into two notebooks.
It's not clear yet whether the Android Eee Pad replaces the Windows Embedded version you can see Parm fondling at Computex in the video embedded below, but the PCWorld report reckons that one is still due out in January.
It would be nice if ASUS could issue some more formal clarification of its table roadmap, but then again perhaps it wants us to keep speculating for a little while longer.