Today at Computex 2010 ASUS announced a number of new products including the Eee Pad and the Eee Tablet.
Eee Tablet – Taking notes has never been this easy:
The groundbreaking Eee Tablet amalgamates the best assets from both the notebook and e-reader formats and boasts an 8’’ Passive TFT-LCD touchscreen and a huge 10-hour battery life, to deliver students and mobile business users all of the function they need to stay productive throughout the day as well as a portable media player.
Sporting a 2450 dpi touch resolution screen, the Eee Tablet is one of the world’s most accurate and sensitive digital note taking devices. With the handy built-in notepad templates, users can store, sort, tag, organise and browse through their notes and make text annotations on-the-fly. For even faster information capture users can take advantage of the 2 megapixel camera to take detail images of presentation slides – then add their notes.
Once back at home or in the office, the Eee Tablet can be synced easily with a PC or notebook via USB or Micro SD, ensuring content and calendars are always up-to-date.
The Eee Tablet also facilitates easy and comfortable reading even over long periods, with lag-free text file page turns taking just 0.1 seconds—9 times faster than those of traditional e-readers.
Eee Pad – Pocket-sized computing at its best:
The ultra-slim Eee Pad has been designed for tech-savvy individuals who are always on the go. Acting as a supplementary Windows-based portable tablet PC, it allows users to keep everything they need – social networking, movies, video-conferencing – at their fingertips.
The 12” Eee Pad EP121 is a fully featured slate computer that serves as a multimedia player, e-reader, compact PC and Internet device in one slim package. Powered by a CULV Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor and the Windows® 7 Home Premium operating system, it handles multitasking effortlessly, enabling users to check their email and calendars, engage in video conferencing, and process Microsoft Word and Excel documents all at the same time. Offering two convenient modes of character input – an embedded virtual keyboard and a special docking-station-keyboard – the Eee Pad EP121 delivers more than 10 hours of smooth, continuous computing.
For those demanding even more mobility, the 10’’ Eee Pad EP101TC fits the bill at a pocket-friendly 12.1mm and feather-light 675g. Users can quickly access their favourite applications by adding them to the main desktop. The Eee Pad EP101TC runs on Windows Embedded Compact 7 – a complete toolkit with the latest Windows 7-based technologies and tools that create engaging user experiences and delivers connectivity to the Windows world.
There are no specifics yet on pricing or availability but they certainly look interesting.
