Tablet devices increasingly heated battle between Vendors! In order to survive in this battle, all manufacturers are required to get innovated products. ASUS, for example, can be said that the Taiwanese electronics company has been quite successful with the first tablet device, the Transformer.However, it turns out it does not make them happy. Now, ASUS is ready to launch the second generation Transformer, Asus Transformer Prime, with the specifications and features are far more qualified!
Jonney Shih, Chairman of ASUS, today demonstrated new tablet device Transformer their second generation successor from Asus Eee Pad Transformer. Asus Transformer Prime comes with a charming design. In addition, the tablet device will be present with a thickness of only 8.3 mm only!
Asus Transformer Prime will use a 10-inch screen, a mini-HDMI port, a battery that can make this device alive for 14.5 hours, and an SD Card slot. As a mainstay, Prime ASUS will arm with quad-core processor from NVIDIA.
Like previous generations, Asus Transformer Prime will use the Android operating system. Unfortunately, Shih still not disclose what version of Android will be used. Will ASUS Prime Transformer will use the new Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich?
In addition to some of the above information, Jonney Shih still not wills to reveal too many advantages from Prime Transformer. However, Shih vowed to reveal all the capabilities of Prime Transformer on the official launch of this product, November 9, 2011.
According to the plan Transformers Prime will be sold at a price range of US$500.
In addition, ASUS also offers accessories such as keyboards for US$150 which has a USB 2.0 port to be used in conjunction with these tablets. Tablets with 0:33 inch thickness has a microSD slot, 3.5mm audio jack combo and a micro HDMI port.
Initially, they wanted to launch this tablet in November 2011 with Android 3.0. However, with the resignation of this schedule, then this tablet will come with Android 4.0.
Asus Transformer Prime Specifications
- Super IPS+ display with 178 degree viewing angles and Gorilla Glass
- NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor
- 12 hours of battery life (tablet alone)
- 18 hours of battery life (with the keyboard dock)
- 1.2MP front-facing camera
- 8MP rear camera with LED flash and auto-focus
- 3.5mm mic/headphone combo jack
- micro HDMI port
- micro SD card slot
- Tablet dimensions: 10.4? x 7.1? x 0.33?
- Tablet weight: 1.29 pounds
- Dock dimensions: 10.4? x 7.1? x 0.41?
- Dock weight: 1.18 pounds