Asustek has announced that they will be launching their new tablet PC on Friday this week in Taiwan. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is one of the first tablets to be equipped with Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS specially designed for tablets.
The new Eee Pad Transformer allows you to benefit from both the portability of a tablet device with touchscreen capabilities and also provides the comfort of being able to use a full QWERTY keyboard add-on that transforms the tablet into a notebook style PC. The additional keyboard also provides additional power for the device adding an an extra 8 hours of life, doubling the tablets exiting life of 8 hours to 16 hours of useful juice.
There are a number of options available to choose from within the Eee Pad Transformer specifications allowing either 16GB or 32GB of SSD storage combined with Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processors with Nvidia GeForce graphics.
The Eee Pad Transformer is also equipped with a 1,280800-pixel touchscreen capable of playing Flash video and 1080p high-definition movies. Together with a 1.2-megapixel camera positioned on the front of the tablet and a 5-megapixel camera on the back.
The new Eee Pad Transformer’s will be available to buy for around $399 to $699 depending on the final specifications you choose.
