We have all speculated that ASUS would be releasing a line of tablet computers, it was just a matter of when. Now with news out Taiwan, Asustek Computer Chairman Jerry Shen announced a new Android based tablet that will be called the Eee Pad. The Eee series of netbooks is probably the most well known line of netbooks. ASUS was the company that made netbooks popular and put them on the map. They will now use the Eee branding to sell their upcoming Android powered tablet. Shen says that his company will soon begin production on a tablet computer running the Android, and hopes to compete with Apple’s iPad. ASUS will introduce the Eee Pad, at Computex 2010, a popular computer expo, in June. They then have plans to make the Eee Pad available for purchase by the end of July.
There are no real spec sheet released yet, but we know the Eee Pad will have an Nvidia Tegra processor. Also to compete with the iPad it will have some features that the iPad doesn’t, like USB, integrated webcam, and Adobe Flash. ASUS also has a marketing plan that will involve a carefully timed release of the Eee Pad that will not be affected by the current tablet PC and e-book reader markets. Sources say that the new Eee Pad will cost around US$479-510. If anyone has the means to make Android based tablets mainstream, it definitely would be ASUS.
[via c/net]
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