CES 2012: Asus introduced two new tablets this year

Consumer electronics exhibition this year is considered an opportunity for manufacturers launched products capable of competing with the market iPad tablet (MTB). Asus is no exception with about 2 MTB Android will be available this year.

Asus eee Prime Transformer Pad

The first is an updated version of the Transformer Prime TF700T called Prime Transformer. These changes include 10.1 inch screen with resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels (Full HD 1080p standard). The screen is made with Super IPS panel + and the exterior glass Gorilla Glass. With this design, Transformer Prime TF700T MTB screen is the sharpest display.
Prime Transformer Camera front of the new version will be upgraded from 1.3 megapixel to 2 megapixel, HD video lets chat on the computer.
The main technical parameters will remain the same, including quad-core processor Nvidia Tegra 3 speed 1.2 GHz, 64 GB internal memory. Also, Asus offers a new control, enhancing the operation of the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.
Meanwhile, the No. 2 MTB's electronic debut in Taiwan this year will target segment small screen devices, where the Amazon Kindle Fire is dominant.
Memo, the name of this device, a 7 inch screen with resolution of 1280 x 800 pixel, equivalent to the common on the MTB today.

Asus to bring their products Qualcomm processor 2 of 8260, the rate of 1.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM memory and maximum memory of 32 GB. The MTB is also equipped with front camera (1.3 Mpx) for video chat features and the camera (5 megapixel) camera capable of Full HD 1080p.

Video on hand ahead of CES 2012 Asus MEMO.

Both the two products are running on the platform Andoid 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Price of TF700T will stay at around 599 USD to 699 USD, MEMO has not yet been set manufacturers selling price. Both the two products will be available in North America from quarter 2 / 2012.

Prime Transformer Macro TF700T

Asus has no plans to issue 3G Prime Transformer

Asus Germany has said that the company has no plans to release a 3G version of the tablet Prime Transformer 10.1 inches, but the company has launched a few weeks ago.

On the Facebook page of Asus Germany, said his company is not particularly interested in UMTS version of Transformers Prime and news that this will not affect the development of Prime Transformer.
The Asus claims that, though UMTS is a strong demand for users in Germany, but for many other countries, UMTS network is not really popular and so sales will not be the Prime Transformer What is affected if the company does not release UMTS.
Not only that, Asus also said that most developers UMTS network in Germany through the Telco channel and requires a contract price supports, while the price it really is not something that Asus period product prospects for its Eee Pad Transformer Prime.
While information on the UMTS version of Prime Transformer is clear, but the company has not released any information about whether or not the network version supports CDMA / EVDO or LTE. Of course the existence of these versions depends on the U.S. market, not to mention a willingness to support price policy of the network in this country.
As we all know, Prime Transformer is a 10.1 inch tablet PC models support quad core processor Nvidia's Tegra 3, built-in GPS, gyro, SonicMaster sound, 1.2 megapixel camera back front and rear 8 Mpx.
Prime Transformer is expected on shelves in the U.S. ranges from 12-19/12 with reservations at the sites in the U.S., Canada and Europe from 492 USD (363.5 Euro).

HP, Dell, Acer and Asus will "withdraw from the tablet market"

According to DigiTimes (Taiwan), the traditional PC manufacturers feel unable to compete in the tablet to tablet production will decrease in 2012.
Abstracted information from the component suppliers, DigiTimes says many companies such as HP, Dell, Acer and Asus realized they had no interest to participate in a market where the "players" like Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble holding too much content system should be able to "bury stamping" competition by lowering prices and products will be offset by trading books, music, applications ...
Fire Amazon Kindle is sold for $ 200 USD and Barnes & Noble will soon introduce Nook Simple Touch only 100 USD - the price that the hardware manufacturers simply can not be profitable to run under. Analysts also believe that in the long run, the two "online bookstore" but found no other hardware to customers so they used as tools to buy and consume content. Meanwhile, Apple accounted for 80% of the stock tablet diverse applications, for the small slice of the remaining firms.

Representatives of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer introduced in January 1 / 2011. Photo: AP.

This step does not seem surprised when HP TouchPad has completely failed to cease production, while RIM also have to accept losses PlayBook to sell for only 250 USD in a number of retail dealers targeted increase sales. Although market participants are tablet, president of Acer JT Wang in August also appreciate the ultra-lightweight laptop Ultrabook and predicting the dying of the fever tablets, that are excited about this product will cool down and then the client will "love" laptop back.
However, Acer said it would participate in many product areas outside the PC Asus also has plans to release the tablet running quad-core chip next year. Therefore, the Guardian (UK) said the manufacturer did not withdraw completely from this market that they will only stop the introduction of Android tablet to wait the arrival of Windows 8.

Asus has officially introduced Prime Transformer

Asus has officially introduced the first tablet Prime Transformer is chairman Jonny Shih introduced at the conference the Asian Games held in Hong Kong. The product is expected on shelves in December here.

According to Asus Prime Transformer will have prices starting at about 500 USD for the version with 32 GB memory and 600 USD for the version with 64 GB of internal memory. In addition to the basic specification Jonny Shih he said last month the machine, such as NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor SoC, 10.1 inch touch screen, only 8.3 mm thick, supports connectivity mini HDMI, microSD slot and will run Ice Cream Sandwich later this year, the other details were announced Asus.

Accordingly, the machine will be equipped with Super IPS screen resolution of 1280 x 800 pixel, scratch-resistant layer of glass by Gorilla Glass, support 178 degree viewing angle and brightness up to 600 nits. May be equipped with 1GB of RAM, 1.2 megapixel camera before and after 8 megapixel camera with f/2.4 lens auto focus assist function and CMOS sensors can record 1080p video.
For battery life, according to preliminary information, the camera's battery use time is 14.5 hours, but Asus said the 22 Wh battery of machine-time use only about 12 hours, not including the keyboard dock 25 Wh battery that came with the use of your time as Asus claims can be increased to 18 hours.
There's also support GPS, gyro, SonicMaster audio, USB 2.0 connection ...
Design, we can easily see the Prime Transformer is an aluminum-like ultra-thin laptops Zenbooks firm, and is available in two colors. With a thickness of 8.3 mm and weighing only 586 grams, the Prime Transformer thinner than iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Finally, Asus Transformer Prime Minister has been outside the screen and a metal layer waterproof coating is resistant to fingerprints stored.
Version 3.2 introduces Honeycomb will run Android applications installed as SuperNote and Polaris Office.

Asus ultrabook "true" on 11/10 at CTIA

Taiwanese computer maker, Asus, has revealed information about an ultra-mobile PCs will be its real ultrabook released in 3 days.

Asus may introduce a product ultrabook again on 11/10.

In revealing its website at ux. asus.com appear countdown time until 11/10 to an event's place in New York, USA. In addition to images of a model previously introduced ultrabook UX21, vendors do not offer any more information than the words "Great product for people that wait" and "Ultrabook really will come."
Yet having launched its first model ultrabook in May last year but revealed by Asus, on 11/10 it will introduce a product with improvements in both design and configuration. This model is likely to actually bring the concept ultrabook real users.
Uultrabook currently the subject of "hot" with the participation of many names such as Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba and Asus. But the company does not sell its products on the market despite promising a very attractive price under $ 1,000.

Scores on the tablet Android Honeycomb

At the exhibition of consumer electronics at International CES Las Vegas earlier this year, customers of the company announced the Android tablet Honeycomb.

The following is a list of devices running this operating system, whether or ready to be launched in the near future.

Acer Iconia Tab A500

Acer Iconia Tab A500 has 10.1 inch touch screen, dual core processor Nvidia Tegra 2 1 GHz, 10.1 supports Flash, memory capacity 16 GB, but no 3G, but there are many connections such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1. This device has a camera 5 'dots' on the back and two 'dots' on the front.

Acer Iconia Tab A100

Iconia Tab A100 is the first tablet with 7 inch screen running Android 3.2. The screen has a resolution of 600x1024 pixels, built-in HDMI output, USB, Wi-Fi. A100 processor running two dual core Nvidia Tegra. The device weighs 0.92 pound (kilogram 00:41) and 0.5 inch thick (12.7 millimeters). It has a camera 5 'dots' on the back and two 'dots' on the front, support for Adobe Flash 10.3.

Archos 80 G9

Archos has entered the "war" Honeycomb Archos tablet with 80 G9. This device processor ARM Cortex A9 dual core 1.5 GHz, 250 GB Seagate hard drive. 8 inch screen, 4:3 aspect ratio, resolution 1024 x 768 pixels.

Archos 101 G9

This device size larger than 80 G9 Archos with 10 inch screen, 1280x800 resolution, dual-core processor.

Asus Eee Memo Pad

Asus Eee Memo Pad 7 inch screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. This device has dual camera for video calls, a mini HDMI port to connect to the TV.

Asus Eee Pad Slider

Asus Eee PC Pad Slider is a table with a sliding QWERTY keyboard like the HTC Shift from a few years ago. Basically, these devices have a 10.1 inch IPS screen resolution of 1280x800 pixels.

Asus Eee Pad Slider weighs 886 grams, 16.7 mm thick, dual-core processor Nvidia Tegra 2, a wireless connection, Adobe Flash 10.1 support, dual camera.

Asus Eee Transformer Pad

Asus Eee Pad Transformer IPS screen 10.1 inch, 1280x800 pixel resolution, can connect to the keyboard right away to become a laptop.

Specifications of equipment include dual cameras (1.2 'dots' and 5 'dots'), wireless connectivity, USB, Bluetooth and integrated card reader, supporting Adobe Flash 10.1, the processor Dual Core Nvidia Tegra 2.

Asus Eee Pad Transformer 2

Eee Pad Transformer 2 is expected because it is one of the first tablet to use Kal El processor quad core from NVIDIA.

HTC Jetstream

Jetstream HTC HD WXGA screen brightness, the camera 8 'dot', Snapdragon processor 1.5 GHz dual-core, connection LTE / HSPA, running Android 3.1 (Honeycomb). Jetstream is a new HTC in the U.S..

Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet / Slate Think

This tablet Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, 10.1 inch screen, 1280x800 resolution, running Android 3.1, weighs 740g.

LG G-Slate

LG G-Slate 3D capable and Tegra 2 dual-core chipset, 4G connectivity, 8.9 inch screen and can record 1080p HD video and 3D video.

Medion P9514 Lifetab

Lifetab Medion P9514 10 inch screen, Nvidia Tegra chip 2, run Honeycomb 3.2, memory capacity 16 GB or 32 GB, HDMI port and USB connectivity, Wi-Fi.

Motorola Xoom

Motorola Xoom has 10.1 inch screen, Android Honeycomb tablet with a 16:10 aspect, HD, 1280 x 800, camera 5 'dots'. This device has a dual-core processor Tegra 2 1 GHz, Wi-Fi 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, 32 GB internal memory.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Galaxy Tab 10.1 Samsung LCD, 1280x800 resolution, Nvidia Tegra chip 2, 1 GB RAM internal memory and up to 64 GB. Camera front and back, respectively, two 'dots' and three 'dots' and 720p video output for y'all to enjoy. The device size is L x W x D 256.7 x 175.3 x 8.6mm, weight 565g.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9

Brown tablet with 8.9 inch screen, 1280x800 pixel resolution, weighs 470g, dual-core processor 1.5 GHz, camera back three 'dots' and camera on the front two 'dots', along with the ability 720p video

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7

Galaxy Tab 7.7 Samsung Super AMOLED screen, 1.4 GHz processor and running Android 3.2 tablet interface of Samsung Touch Wiz. Other specs include a 5100mAh battery, has the form 8, 16, 32 and 64 GB is designed with SD card slot, so you can increase capacity.

Sony Tablet S

The tablet is designed like a folded newspaper, weighing 598g. 9.4 inch screen, 1280x800 resolution, very sharp display, 1 GHz Tegra chipset 2. There is also a slot for SD and Micro-USB, but no HDMI port. There are two versions of Wi-Fi and 3G networks with other hard drive capacity is 16 or 32 GB.

Sony Tablet P

If the Tablet S is designed like a folded newspaper, the design of P Tablet PCs are also worth more debate. This device has 5.5 inch screen, 1024x480 resolution in each hand, weighs 380g, 2 Tegra SoC processor, 4 GB of memory in P Tablet certified computer gaming table PlayStations.

Toshiba AT200 - Excite

AT200 or Excite Toshiba 10.1 inch screen, 1280x800 resolution, run Honeycomb (3.2) TI OMAP 4430 processor 1.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM internal memory and up to 64 GB.

Camera on the 5 'end'. This device is only 7.7mm thick, it is one of the thinnest tablet now, 1mm thinner than iPad 2 (8.8 mm), length 256mm, width 176mm, weight 558g.Toshiba tablet can run for 8 hours with only a single charge.

Toshiba AT100 - Thrive

Thrive or AT100 Toshiba 10.1 inch screen resolution of 1280x800, 1 GB RAM and 16 GB memory, Nvidia Tegra processor 2 1 GHz, 5 cameras 'dots' on the back and two 'dots' on the front . This device has an HDMI port, SD, Mini-USB, USB, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth. Battery life approximately 7 hours.

ViewSonic ViewPad 7x

Published in information technology fair Computex 2011, ViewPad 7x 7 icnh screen, dual core processor Nvidia Tegra 2, 2 camera front and back, weighs 380g, compatible DLNA, HDMI port to connected to the TV.