By Not wanting to miss out on the tablet craze, Asus will be announcing their own take at a device with a name coincidentally similar to ‘iPad.’ The Eee Pad will be an Android-based tablet sporting a webcam, USB connectivity, and Adobe Flash support. The Eee Pad will supplement Asus’ Eee PC (pictued below) line of netbooks, and aims to carve out 10-20 percent of total sales of Eee-branded devices.
The official announcement of the Eee Pad (and many more details) should be coming at Computex 2010. It should be priced right around the $500 mark when it is expected to hit shelves during the third quarter of this year.
[via Boy Genius Report]
wonder why they don’t go with aPad, since they are Asus
This is the only tablet that truly interests me in the least.
I’ve been waiting along time for ASUS to finally unveil their tablet.
My is almost over. =]]
*My wait is almost over.
Sounds good.
Hopefully there will be a lot to choose from.
This sounds like the one I want. I love Asus products and I’m sure they’ll make a great tab
I have the netbook in the picture, as well as the 1201n. I love Asus products and their netbooks. I’ll definitely be taking a look at their tablet as well.
I adore my F8P, and T-91MT (got tired of waiting for the T101MT) as I did my eeepc 700 and 900 aswell as my custom built desktop comprised of mostly ASUS components.
ASUS is to the PCs what HTC is to smartphones. Innovative and simply brilliant. I can’t wait to see what they have up their sleeve. The wait has been killing me. I’m all giddy like a little school girl. =P
I thought Asus makes netbooks for Apple. Will this make Stevie take his football and go home?
We must start seeing many such stuffs for the next one year or so.. The Tablet fever started!
ASUS used to make Apples laptop line for them along with numerous other companies.
I don’t know if they are the ones still holding the contract or not however.
@7
I know ASUS used to make Apples computer line for them
(aswell as many other big name companies)
but I am not entirely sure if they still hold contract with Apple or not.
It sounds good but $500 is so expensive for a tablet that has a netbook specification
Asus makes great products. Their eeepc line of netbooks are fantastic. This might be the product we are waiting for. If it’s Intel based, I might have to run Ubuntu though!
I adore my F8P, and T-91MT (got tired of waiting for the T101MT) as I did my eeepc 700 and 900 aswell as my custom built desktop comprised of mostly ASUS components.
ASUS is to the PCs what HTC is to smartphones. Innovative and simply brilliant. I can’t wait to see what they have up their sleeve. The wait has been killing me. I’m all giddy like a little school girl. =P
I’am here,
What about the iPad? It starts at $500 and it’s even less comparible spec wise to a netbook…….
My 7 year old HP TC1100 has better specs then the iPad. lmao
avoggil,
lmao, funny that you mention that. I may wind up installing Fedora to it myself. =P
Will I be able to install the Android on my T91MT?