A new report from industry insider DigiTimes has confirmed our fears that Asus tablet sales are cannibalizing demand for its Eee PC line. Thanks to better than expected Eee Pad Transformer sales, shipments of the slate should reach “700,000-800,000 units in the third quarter and two million units in 2011”. The report also mentions a new quad-core Eee Pad Transformer, alongside the 7-inch Eee Pad MeMO 3D and Padfone due out in the fourth quarter.
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Computex is like another filled with barmy tablets and the barmiest we’ve seen this year is this iPhone-powered prototype from ECS which riffs on the same kind of tablet-with-a-smartphone-slot schtick as the Asus Padfone.
However, ECS hasn’t bothered to make its own phone, preferring to offer a dock for the iPhone 4 to slip into and relying on its processor. Read on for more on this crazy contraption…
The Asus Padfone looks to be the future of smartphone-tablet hybrids. Like the Motorola Atrix 4G before it, the Padfone replaces two devices and at the same time transforms a consumption device (smartphone) into a productivity tool (tablet). Before you write the this off as just another tablet, have a look at the top five reasons the Padfone should be your next smartphone.
Bringing you the latest tech news on this fine holiday evening it’s your US Update. We’ve got the latest scoops from the annual Computex trade show in Taipei, including the new tablet smartphone hybrid from Asus, a 7-inch ViewSonic Honeycomb tablet and a 12-megapixel Windows Phone smartphone from HTC.
The Asus Padfone is without question the ultimate convergent device. At first glance the Padfone looks like an ordinary tablet, but tucked inside the back casing is a smartphone. RIM might have set the bar for smartphone tablet harmony with BlackBerry Bridge, but Asus Padfone is on an entirely new level. Is this the tablet future?