Tag archive: Asus

Asus has been one of the leaders in innovative tablet designs. We were saddened that it did not announce any new products at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, but it looks like Feb. 26 or 27 may be its time to shine. Asus has confirmed with MoDaCo (via PocketNow) that it intends to unveil a newly designed PadPhone tablet + phone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.  Much like the concept of the Motorola Atrix + Laptop Dock, the… Read More

According to a recent report from The Daily, Microsoft is working manufacturers third-party manufacturers on prototypes of laptops utilizing a built-in Kinect sensor. Microsoft has already discussed desktops that include Kinect functions while at CES this year, but this is the first mention of the motion controller in a portable solution. The prototypes appeared to be ASUS netbooks and they were running Windows 8, likely to use motion… Read More

In preparation for Mobile World Congress at the end of next month, the organizing body – the GSMA – has announced the 2012 shortlist of nominees for their prestigious Global Mobile Awards. That's right, it's not just those in with a chance of an Oscar nod on tenterhooks today. What makes the GSMA's awards worthy of attention is that they're voted on by 170 independent industry players — from chief… Read More

The battle over which data cable standard will dominate in the years ahead is beginning to heat up. With USB 3.0 beginning to take off, the fate of Intel's high-speed Thunderbolt port has been under scrutiny as of late. Everything runs on USB and though Apple has been a huge proponent of the new Thunderbolt port, including it as one of the only ports on its entire line of MacBook computers, support from the world's most popular tech… Read More

Asus could be planning a move into Samsung's territory with the launch of a 7-inch Android tablet. The Taiwanese company currently restricts its tablet range to models with 10-inch screens, such as the Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Samsung, on the other hand, offers 7-inch, 8.9-inch and 10.1-inch versions of its Galaxy tablets. The recent success of the Amazon Fire has shown consumers are interested in more portable tablets too. Rumors of an… Read More

When Asus announced the Eee Pad Transformer Prime in November, many saw the name as a lawsuit waiting to happen, and sure enough, Hasbro has filed a complaint with a Los Angeles court. The toy company is seeking damages and an injunction against Asus. To show just how annoyed Hasbro is they've sent a statement, rather light in punctuation, to PaidContent.org which reads: “Hasbro continues to aggressively protect its brands and… Read More

Customers in North America can now pre-order the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet, the first-ever tablet to come loaded with the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor. In the US, pre-orders are available from Best Buy, B&H, GameStop, and Tiger Direct. For Canadian customers, Future Shop and NCIX are accepting pre-orders. The Transformer Prime tablet ships with Google's Android 3.2 Honeycomb, but can be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice… Read More

If you have been dying for some more Ultrabooks to hit the market than we have some amazing news for you. There could be as many and 50 Ultrabooks launched at January’s CES. The Consumer Electronics Association expepts to see between 30 and 50 Ultrabooks to be debuted at the show. Intel CEO Paul Otellini is scheduled to make a keynote speech in Las Vegas during the conference at which time he is expected to announce a new more powerful 22… Read More

Speculation surrounding the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime continues to build in anticipation of the coming tablet, which saw its launch date pushed to December. Now we’ve gotten some official feedback on the keyboard enabled tablet courtesy of Asus and NVIDIA. In a press briefing this afternoon, we were given a first look at the Transformer Prime, which will officially be announced at an event in early December. While the next-gen model will… Read More

Ultrabooks are only just going on sale here in the United States, but it looks like sales in Taiwan are already disappointing Asus and Acer. DigiTimes reports that the two companies now expect to ship 100,000 Ultrabooks by the end of 2011, far short of their target of 200,000-300,00 units. A big problem is that they're unable to price the notebooks lower than Apple's MacBook Air. The Asus 11.6-inch Ultrabook costs about $1,205… Read More

If any of the current batch of Honeycomb tablets has earned a second edition it would be the Asus Transformer. We were teased last week when ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih showed off the next version of the tablet. Today Italian blog notebookitalia found some pictures of a new Transformer Prime with a new updated keyboard attachment. The first thing we noticed about the new keyboard is actually how much it looks like it belongs on an Apple laptop. In… Read More

There are a few truisms in the technology world, and one of them is that storage always gets faster and cheaper. Over the long term, that will undoubtedly stay true, but in the near and medium term traditional hard drive storage is facing a major problem: Record flooding in Thailand. The deluge has forced Western Digital and Toshiba to shut down their hard drive manufacturing facilities in Pathum Thani province, near Bangkok, and hard drive… Read More

The Asus Transformer Prime will be announced on Nov. 9, said Chairman Jonney Shih at AllThingsD's AsiaD conference today as he pulled it out and showed it off. Like the original Transformer, which has been selling well since its debut in April, the Transformer Prime will be a traditional touch tablet, but have a keyboard dock that it can attach to, making it about as functional as a netbook. The new transformer is super thin, measuring… Read More

Announced earlier today, Nvidia revealed the second generation of its 3D Vision wireless glasses kit. Compared to the previous model, the 3D Vision 2 glasses have 20 percent large lenses allowing for a wider viewing area. In addition, the new version of the glasses offer a higher color fidelity due to a more efficient design when it comes to blocking out external light. The previous version was designed from hard, black plastic that would dig… Read More