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ASUS Android tablet due next March

by Scott Bicheno on 13 August 2010, 17:10

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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.

 

 

 



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Register me interested - especially if they've got clever display tech too.
Software looks incredibly poor… Most of the stuff doesn't work lol

Also when you flip between screens it seems laggy?

Even if they'll finish it on time I don't think there is a point in getting one.
It does seem very slow. Even more so than my nexus one! I think the software definitely needs alot of work
For that kind of money, it should turn into two notebooks.

That made me lol! :D


It is a prototype, i can only assume a very new software build. Hardware seems fairly impressive though! :)


What I don't understand is why bother with a core 2 setup? Why would a tablet like that need such processing power? Fair enough it can be snapped into a laptop frame, but surely a mid spec'd tablet PC would then leave enough of the budget set aside from the £1000 asking price to go towards a decent standalone PC. A tablet, a laptop and no doubt change from £1000…win?
Andehh
What I don't understand is why bother with a core 2 setup? Why would a tablet like that need such processing power?

Adobe Flash :P