The Many Faces of Asus's Android Tablets [Asus]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5724758/asus-eee-pad-memo-is-the-stylus+lovers-tablet
There will be tablets aplenty at this year's CES, and Asus's strategy is basically trying a bunch of different stuff and seeing what sticks. Which is commendable, in a way! They've got three Android tablets in their brood.
Eee Pad Slider
The most intriguing? The Eee Pad Slider, a 10.1" tablet that hides a QWERTY keyboard a la the Dell Inspiron Duo. It'll run Android 3.0 Honeycomb and has an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. And, crucially, it's not gigantic! It's only half an inch thick, about the same as an iPad, and weighs 2.2 pounds, a bit more than the iPad. It's also got cameras on the front and back—1.2MP and 5MP with auto focus, respectively—and a mini USB port, a mini HDMI port, and a Micro SD card reader.
They had a little trouble sliding this apart on stage, but it looks impressively thin considering its hidden keyboard.
Here's what their fully-skinned Android UI, which they're calling My Wave, looks like:
Eee Pad Transformer
The Eee Pad Transformer, another presto-changeo tablet, also has the full keyboard—though instead of sliding like the Sliders, this one is detachable. The tablet part has the guts—a Tegra 2 processor, dual cameras (1.2MP and 5MP), and a 32GB SSD with 1GB of memory—though adding the keyboard doubles the battery life up to a reported 16 hours. This one, too, will have Android 3.0, though we'll see how well it pulls off the pad-mode/docked-mode balancing act.
Here's the Transforming being yanked apart:
And that's not all!
Eee Pad Memo
And here are the prices and availability for the whole set:
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