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Asus unveils the Eee Pad Transformer Prime
TAIWANESE HARDWARE MAKER Asus has revealed its Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet, the first device to use Nvidia's Tegra 3 processor.
The tablet is pretty much as we expected, but this is a good thing as it looks like a decent follow-up to the popular original Transformer. It will be the first quad-core tablet with the Nvidia Tegra 3 'Kal-el' chip.
Asus has worked hard to outdo the competition by making it thinner, lighter and in theory faster than its rivals. It comes in at a mere 8.3mm thick and weighs 586g, stealing the crown as the thinnest tablet from Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Nvidia said the Tegra 3 chip can deliver up to three times the graphics performance of the Tegra 2 with 61 per cent lower power consumption. Asus claims this translates into a battery life of up to 12 hours for the Transformer Prime without using the keyboard dock.
The Transformer Prime has an 8MP camera and 32GB of internal storage. The front camera remains at 1.2MP and there is also the standard technology of WiFi, Bluetooth and a microSD card slot.
The tablet is the same structure as before with a sleeker and shinier design reminiscent of the firm's Zenbook laptop. The display is a 10.1in Super IPS+ touchscreen with 1280x800 resolution and the keyboard dock has its own battery, adding six hours of juice.
There is one area that is a disappointment, which is that the Transformer Prime will come with Android 3.2 Honeycomb and not Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The tablet will get an upgrade but Asus has not announced the date for this as yet.
The Transformer Prime will tip up in early January next year. It will retail for £499, which includes the tablet and keyboard dock.
From what we've seen the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime looks to be one of the better tablets that's coming out soon and we can't wait to get our hands on it. µ
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is it possible to connect the ASUS to a mobile like an iphone so you can get internet access on the move?
Will a 3G model be coming out later?
Hi, Matt.
The £499 price is what we were sent on a press release from Asus.
Thanks for the comments.
Is the price confirmed by ASUS as £499 or have you just done (a very educacted) guess that its going to be a dollar to pound conversion
For all intents and purposes when you plug the tablet into the keyboard dock it becomes a laptop, the battery in the keyboard works to recharge the battery in the tablet even when off, if the tablet battery is full it will use the keyboard's battery first.
Also when using word processor/spreadsheet/email/text/notes/blogs/comments/forums/etc become so much easier and quicker to write because no matter how good an on screen keyboard is a physical keyboard will always be better, especially for people who can touchtype (or get a close approximation to touch typing like myself ^_^).
It also closes up like a laptop when on the dock protecting the screen when in a bag without the need for an external case. I will be getting one of these next year with the keyboard dock and hope that someone can get windows 7/8 dual booting on it too.
What happens when you plug the keyboard in? Is it just a touch screen tablet with a keyboard attached?