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Slate prototypes and possible smartbooks at ASUS

Published on: 27th January, 2010

Chairman Jonney Shih has made public the future plans of ASUS and has predicted a successful development of the company. ASUS is developing slate PCs specially designed for multimedia and web use but will not release them until content becomes accessible enough for the users. The content he referred to included music, videos, games and [...]

ASUS to reveal a highly-competitive OLED e-book reader

Published on: 21st January, 2010

The Taiwanese ASUS enters, although a bit late, the highly-competitive market of e-book readers with its DR-570 device. The 6-inch e-book reader was absent at the recent CES show, but is expected to be a technologically advanced device, with a bright OLED colour display and an impressive 122-hour battery life. The DR-570 is believed to [...]

ASUS to choose between Android and Chrome for tablets and smartbooks

Published on: 21st January, 2010

A ZDNet report is revealing that the Taiwanese PC manufacturer ASUS is now testing smartbooks that run on both Chrome and Android operating systems and is also thinking to add an ARM-based PC to the Intel-powered Eee PC netbooks. Jonney Shih, ASUS chairman, has mentioned this in a recent interview. He also said that the [...]

ASUS presents the dual-trackpad concept for notebooks

Published on: 12th January, 2010

A unique concept for notebook PCs is supposed to overhaul conventional expectations for this kind of devices. The ASUS NX90 will sport a revolutionary system consisting in two trackpads, one of them built into the palm rest and another one to the right of the keyboard. There is also a rather unusual integrated sound bar [...]

ASUS multi-touch Eee PC tablet with 10-inch display

Published on: 30th December, 2009

The Federal Communications Commission has destroyed ASUS’ plans to launch a larger version of the T91MT convertible tablet. The T101MT will obviously have a larger 10-inch display and a multi-touch input. The tablet would probably use an Intel Pine Trail platform and a 1.66GHz Atom N450 processor. Poor information is available on the hardware, but [...]

ASUS Eee Pad with muti-touch

Published on: 26th December, 2009

According to some rumors the Eee Pad Tablet from ASUS will have a Tegra chipset from NVIDIA. It is probably that they will use a next generation processor on the new tablet. Thanks to NVIDIA technology the device will support 720p HD format and maybe in the future even the 1080p HD format. Netbook News [...]

Radeon HD 5730 and Core i5 inside the new ASUS notebook

Published on: 26th December, 2009

ASUS is almost ready to release its first laptop based on Intel and ATI technology. This new model is the bigger brother of the X77 with the 7.3-inch display and it is the first on the market that uses the Mobility Radeon HD 5730. The processor used for this notebook should be a mobile Core [...]

Android-based educational EeeBot from ASUS

Published on: 22nd December, 2009

ASUS has planned to build an educational robot addressed to kids, that would run on the Android open-source operating system. The robot will be named EeeBot and the project will be sponsored by the government of Taiwan in order to promote Android. A governmental website describes the EeeBot as being an affordable robot, with hardware [...]

Pine Trail-bassed Eee PC 1005P from ASUS

Published on: 22nd December, 2009

ASUS has launched a new set of Pine Trail Atom-based PCs and promise that these new models will make a difference in the company’s name. The 1005P and the 1005PE models have a similar design, the 1005PE model having a greater performance that the 1005P model. Bigger changes can be observed inside, a 1.66GHz Atom [...]

ASUS – restructuring to reduce capital

Published on: 15th December, 2009

ASUS has revealed its plans to spin off a new company, which would be named Pegatron Investment Holdings Company and would contract out its production operations. This move is intended to result in a reduction of ASUS’ capital by 85 percent. The new company would be in position to sell new shares, 25 percent of [...]

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