The Asus Eee Pad Slider has been among the most anticipated Android tablets for ages. The Android Honeycomb tablet with its slideout QWERTY-keyboard charmed us during our first hands on during CES in January and we gave it a thorough going over in our Asus Eee Pad Slider preview in March but there’s been scant news on it since. An Asus Eee Pad Slider listing popped up on Amazon Germany in June but without a release date.
After such a lot of delays, it’s good to hear from tablet watchers in the Netherlands that the Asus Eee Pad Slider will be with us by September. Tablet Magazine says the original 16GB model has been ditched in favour of a single 32GB model priced at €499 (£437) with the 3G-enabled version following it in early 2012. When the Asus Eee Pad Slider finally ships, it’ll come packing Android Honeycomb 3.1 and you can see it being put through its paces with that version of the OS onboard after the break…
