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Asus announces Eee Pad tablet
TAIWANESE MANUFACTURER Asustek will launch its own tablet device at Computex in June.
The firm that popularised netbooks will be peddling the Eee Pad, a tablet that will run Google's Android operating system. The device reportedly will have cutting edge features missing on Apple's Ipad, such as USB ports, an integrated webcam and even support for Adobe's Flash.
Asustek is keen to offset a decrease in netbook sales with tablet devices. The company's chairman, Jerry Shen said that the touchscreen devices will consume 10 to 20 per cent of the existing netbook market. He wouldn't rule out releasing ebook readers either, saying that Asustek would monitor the market to "prevent related products stepping into each other's demand".
Sources told Digitimes that the Eee Pad, which is expected to be based on Nvidia's Tegra chip, will be priced at around the $500 mark when purchased through mobile operators.
The firm believes that it will shift 300,000 or so of the devices in 2010. While that figure may seem somewhat low compared to the Ipad, the Eee Pad isn't slated to appear until the third quarter of 2010.
Rival firm Micro Star International (MSI) is also getting ready to unleash its own tablet, the M Pad, around the same time as the Eee Pad.
Although both Asustek and MSI can be expected to ship units without the hype that surrounds the Ipad, competitive pricing and increased functionality could see both firms replicate the success they have enjoyed with netbooks. µ
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Reports suggest that the real rival to the iPad is the Toshiba Protege M750, which has all the features of both machines and more importantly has an actual keyboard as well as the touch features.
Personally I think it's fills the gap between notepad and smart-phone a lot better than the Eee Pad.
Well, that's according to this article:
http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/news/2010/04/apple-ipad-underthreat-from-eee-pad-and-protege/
The Wepad has better design and I think would be the Ipad killer.
http://wepad.mobi/en
I'm having my doubts whether this device will actually kill apples device. It needs to be superior and less expensive to really grab part of apples market share.
Now if it was running XP and was superior to the Ipad, we might be talking. Android? eh. It still needs a killer app. to get off the ground.
The real iPad killer is... the iPad! It's rubbish kit.
It's killing ME
Agreed, the new design of the inquirer site definitely does suck ass.
Maybe you are getting a better bang for you buck. You are also dropping the screen size by 3 inches and that asus pad looks ugly too.
No matter how much you guys hate it, the ipad is used as a benchmark for all comparisons. Look even the stupid inquirer tries to use it's name as much as possible to lure people to it's site.
I think simplicity wins, the hp slate was reviewed and it was suppose to be an "ipad killer" what happened...?
BTW: The new design of the inquirer site sucks ass. I mean really this is shit.
Good! But please don't curse the thing with a stupid bezel.
It's high time designers looked at what Apple do and realise that some of the aesthetics are quite desirable.
Bezels should be banished to the annuls of history.
I guess it depends on which iPad you compare it to... The Asus EEE Pad will have two USB ports (no need to buy an expensive Apple adapter) 64Gb 3G, WiFi, A-GPS, Cam etc:
http://www.asustablet.com/asus/specifications/
I think you get much mote bang for your buck with the EEE Pad as opposed to an iPad.