ASUS Eee Slate B121 quietly debuts for enterprise
18.05.62
The B121 features a 12.1-inch 1280×800 multitouch display covered by Gorilla Glass with 178 degree wide viewing angles and works with a Wacom Digitizer stylus. Inside it runs on Intel’s Core i5-479UM processor with 4GB of RAM along and a 64GB SSD. It has a front-facing 2-megapixel camera for video conferencing, two full USB 2.0 ports, a mini-HDMI port, and a built-in memory card reader. It’s also bundled with a Bluetooth keyboard.
And catering to enterprise, the tablet features multiple levels of security, including a Computrace LoJack support that helps locate the device if its stolen and also can remotely lock and delete data on the device. It also features a trusted platform module that work with Windows BitLocker for better data encryption of data to protect against software attacks and physical theft.
Source: SlashGear
Asus expected to shake up tablet market with eee Pad Transformer
06.09.11
So, when Apple redefined portability with the iPad in 2010, Asus was expected to be one of the first challengers. And, indeed, it hit the market mere weeks after the iPad, confusingly announcing an e-reader it called a Tablet, and a tablet it called a Pad. The fact that Apple didn’t immediately take them to court may well have been an indication that these devices posed little challenge to the iPad at the time. Fast-forward a year, and Asus has a device on the market that goes beyond the iPad.
It’s called the eee Pad Transformer, a 10.1” tablet running Android 3.0 or Honeycomb, and offers an optional docking keyboard that also boosts battery life from 9 hours to 16 hours. Well-priced at $399, its first production runs – estimated at about 100,000 – reportedly sold out immediately in some markets, and in June it shipped a further 300,000 units.
Source: MarkLives.com
Asus Tablet with Slide-out Keyboard Due in September?
18.05.27
Reports that an Asus Italy representative assured them the Eee Pad Slider would arrive in Italy in September, and there would be two models: a version with 16GB of storage and one with 32GB. Notebook Italia reports that the 16GB model will cost $400 and that the 32GB version will be $500. This is comparable to the price cuts on the HP TouchPad and the Asus Eee Pad Transformer , making the 10.1-inch tablet an attractive option if and when it arrives in the United States.
Asus has listed, for the first time, the complete specs for the Eee Pad Slider, revealing the tablet will ship with Android 3.1 but be upgradable to Android 3.2. Other specs listed confirm what we already knew of the Slider , including its Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of memory, and 1280 by 800 resolution. Now, however, battery life is listed officially as up to 8 hours (up from 6 hours) and a thickness of 0.68 inches—not bad for a tablet with a built-in keyboard, but not the “under half an inch” we were expecting either.
Source: PCWorld