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ASUS teases new Eee Pad Transformer 2 tablet

by Alistair Lowe on 19 October 2011, 15:57

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Snuck in alongside today’s announcement of Android 4.0, ASUS has placed a teaser trailer onto its Facebook page, clearly demonstrating a brief glimpse of the new ASUS Transformer 2 tablet device.

Specifications and release dates are still unconfirmed but rumours have been flying around for weeks with strong indications and a leaked product listing suggesting that release date could be November (perhaps as early as the 7th.) The listing also suggests that the new device will be powered by the new Tegra 3 quad-core NVIDIA processor, carry 32GB of flash storage and retail at approximately £537.

Though this price seems a little high, indications from the leaked listing and the footage from the ASUS teaser do suggest a more refined high-end product.

Presumably armed with Android 4.0 and superior hardware, is ASUS really about to attempt to take on iPad giant, Apple?

Check it out on the official ASUS Facebook page.

Update: We've just spotted this YouTube trailer from ASUS, which gives a clearer look at the new tablet.



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Posted by Biscuit - Wed 19 Oct 2011 17:53
im definitely getting one of these…
Posted by [GSV]Trig - Wed 19 Oct 2011 21:39
I'm not, certainly not at that price, I've presuming thats for the top of the line 3g effort with keyboard/dock and other bits..
Posted by Biscuit - Wed 19 Oct 2011 21:43
it is also rumored to be the first quadcore ‘kal-el’ tablet aswell as being one of the first icecream sandwich devices :)
Posted by crossy - Wed 19 Oct 2011 21:52
Presumably armed with Android 4.0 and superior hardware, is ASUS really about to attempt to take on iPad giant, Apple?
Hell yes! :mrgreen:
Not sure about iPad3, but got to say that the current ET101 makes the iPad2 look pretty damn overpriced. Okay, mine was a whole £6 more expensive (from the local Comet) than an iPad2 from the Apple Store, but then again the old Transformer is a good deal more capable. And I'll argue that with any iPad fanboy.

Would love to be able to “trade up” for this new one - but I don't see Asus doing that. :'( Hopefully the £537 is for the full bells-and-whistles 32/64GB version with 3G and the “budget” ;) 16GB WiFi-only one will be a lot more reasonably priced, say around the £400 mark.

That said, at the moment I'd just be happy for ICS to appear on the current Transformer like (according to reports) Asus have said it will.
Posted by darklink720 - Wed 09 Nov 2011 23:56
Competition in a pretty dominated market is always a good thing, especially for the consumers.