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ASUS Transformer Prime Gets New Firmware Update

ASUS just launched a new firmware for its Transformer Prime TF201 tablet. The new 10.4.2.17 firmware fixes some bugs and adds a couple of new features.To begin with, the people at ASUS fixed the issue when, if you inserted an SD card into the Mobile Dock and enter sleep mode, the system would auto reboot on resume.An...

21 November 2012
03:40 GMT

Australia Gets ASUS Eee Pad Slider Android 4 ICS Update

Famous Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer Asustek has started rolling out the update to Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich for the Asus Eee Pad Slider tablets that are sold in Australia. The update will simply arrive over-the-air, and as such, you’ll be able to install it directly on your original tablet device....

1 June 2012
19:51 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad Slider Gets Android 4.0 Update

Famous Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer Asustek has reportedly started rolling out the update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for the Asus Eee Pad Slider tablets that are sold in the US today. The update will simply arrive over-the-air, and as so, you’ll be able to install it directly on your original tabl...

11 May 2012
08:14 GMT

Original ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Gets Updated

Even though the Transformer Prime and Transformer Pad are the tip of ASUS's marketing spear on the tablet market, the company has not forgotten about the original Eee pad transformer. Last time we heard of an update was in February, when the firmware moved to version 9.2.1.11 and Android 4.0 was installed. Ran...

25 April 2012
09:35 GMT

Owners of Original Eee Pad Transformer Can Download Android 4.0 ICS

Back in late February, we saw that the original ASUS Eee Pad Transformer had begun to receive the over-the-air upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Not all was well, though, as some users just did not seem to get their update. To circumvent this perceived problem, ASUS has now made it possible to manually d...

6 March 2012
04:03 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer TF101 Gets Android 4.0 ICS Update (OTA)

ASUS was going to release the Android 4.0 over the air (OTA) upgrade for the original Transformer tablet either this month or the next. Much to the joy of those who possess a Transformer TF101, the operating system upgrade is taking effect now instead of later, in Taiwan at least. ASUS made sure to mention it on it...

23 February 2012
08:29 GMT

ASUS Transformer Prime Bootloader Unlock Used to Install Ubuntu

The Eee Pad Transformer Prime runs Android by default, but people have wanted to install Linux on it for quite a while, a wish that has finally become possible. Littlesteve owns the product and had prepared an Ubuntu build for it even before ASUS finished the bootloader unlock tool. With said tool becoming availab...

22 February 2012
08:48 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Gets Firmware Fix

Owners of the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime have probably been frustrated with their slate to no end, even after they got the 9.4.2.13 over the air firmware upgrade.As soon as the update was carried out, the tablet turned into a device that liked to restart once every minute or so for some reason.Fortunately, there ...

17 February 2012
11:10 GMT

Hilarious Commercial: Check Out This New iPad Thing from ASUS

Sadly, there are many companies on the IT market that make great products, but release the most ludicrous of commercials, but sometimes someone does something about it. ASUS' Eee Pad Transformer Prime is among the best tablets according to many (though not without its problems). Unfortunately, ASUS' com...

28 January 2012
05:17 GMT

ASUS Transformer Prime Set for December 8, 2011

We know people have been wondering how much longer they'll have to wait for the mighty Transformer Prime tablet to show up, and so have we, but we might not have to wonder anymore. Newegg set the tablet up as available for pre-order, but this isn't really news. What the web did only now notice (probably...

28 November 2011
08:52 GMT

Make Your Eee Pad Stand on Its Own with ASUS Smart Cover

Christmas is coming (black Friday is too) so if you're wondering what would go well with your ASUS tablet, the Smart Cover might just be the thing for you. Sure, it's more or less the same thing as Apple's SmartCover but, then again, there aren't many ways you can make one look. The role is mo...

17 November 2011
09:11 GMT

ASUS Transformer Prime Tablet Smashes Through Benchmark

ASUS Transformer Prime barely got through the FCC, and it came out in pieces too, but that still didn't stop a certain someone from seeing its benchmarking score. As unlikely as it sounds, the tablet, which is powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Kal-El ARM SoC (system-on-chip), was found on AnTuTu benchmark. Th...

4 November 2011
10:55 GMT

ASUS Prime Transformer Tablet Will Stick to Honeycomb

Since the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime is clearly going to be the company's new flagship, mostly everyone expected it to come already loaded with the newest Android OS version, but this won't happen. More precisely, this won't happen at first, and the slate will continue to stick to Honeycomb until...

31 October 2011
11:09 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 2 On Video

Google finally released the Android ice Cream Sandwich OS, so it was high time some next-generation tablets got hyped up, something that ASUS did through a nice little teaser video.That ASUS will launch a new tablet at some point in November is something that hasn't been a mystery for quite a while now.In fact,...

19 October 2011
07:37 GMT

Eee Pad Slider ASUS Tablet Finally Starts Selling

ASUS had a great success with the Eee Pad Transformer tablet, and it might or might not see a similar level of orders for the Eee Pad Slider, an even newer tablet that finally arrived. The Eee Pad Slider tablet from ASUS is one of those items that sparked many discussions and reports over the past few months. ...

21 September 2011
08:05 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad Slider Almost Up for Sale

ASUS already has a strong presence on the tablet market, what with the massive Eee Pad Transformer sales, but the company is getting ready to finally launch the Eee Pad Slider as well. As far as tablets go, the Eee Pad Transformer is the one that, arguably, had the fastest and greatest success, selling out within...

15 September 2011
04:53 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad Slider Now on Sale

The most recent reports involving a certain product from ASUS have not been all that encouraging for those that are eagerly waiting to get it, but it looks like those from one European country need wait no longer.ASUS has truly been making a name for itself on the tablet market, having already shipped hundreds of th...

3 August 2011
07:22 GMT

ASUS Now Selling 400,000 Eee Pad Transformer Tablets Each Month

ASUS may have had trouble meeting orders at first, but reports seem to suggest that the situation has not only passed, but that the outfit actually might fulfill its goal of selling its intended target number of tablets by year's end.There are certain events that took place during the past quarter that cannot e...

15 July 2011
08:16 GMT

Tablets Get $100 Cheaper Because of ASUS Eee Pad Transformer

It appears that recent happenings on the tablet market might finally end up solving one of the issues plaguing this sort of device, namely the fact that most of them are just too expensive to attract customers.Tablets may have been the subject of skepticism this time last year, but they have long since passed the po...

24 May 2011
07:20 GMT

New ASUS Tablet Is Black, Silver and Brown

It isn't unusual for a product to get exposed prematurely in leaks or reports, but the leak dealing with an upcoming ASUS tablet is even poorer in details than usual, with just some glancing pictures of the product having been uncovered.If anything, ASUS has definitely made an impression on the tablet market, e...

23 May 2011
07:31 GMT

Eee Pad Transformer Still Hard to Find, Will Get Better Soon

The Eee Pad Transformer has definitely caused what amounts to a riot as far as news coverage goes, and it looks like it will continue to be fashionably unavailable, so to speak, for a little while longer.The one big problem plaguing Android tablets nowadays is that, for the most part, they aren't actually avail...

18 May 2011
09:44 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Tablet Already Sold Out

Although some might not have expected it, it looks like a certain tablet with a detachable keyboard ended up quite popular, to the point where it sells out almost as soon as it became available for shipment. Those paying any sort of attention to the happenings on the tablet market might be aware of a certain piec...

26 April 2011
06:12 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Tablet Sells on April 26, Gets a Price

While many tablets have been revealed, especially with Android 3.0 loaded onto them, many of them are still not for sale yet, something that goes for a certain ASUS model, though this might finally change soon.At first glance, one might say that the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is not much different from all the other m...

21 April 2011
05:05 GMT

ASUS Tablet Moves from Tegra to Oak Trail Atom Z670, Gets Torn Off Website

Users may be familiar with the ASUS Eee Pad Slider tablet, but they might not know of the possibility that it will use a certain, recently-launched CPU instead of the Tegra 2 SoC as originally planned.ASUS is one of those companies that has multiple tablet designs on sale, particularly ones with physical keyboards.S...

18 April 2011
03:16 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Tablet Gets Released Early

Things on the tablet market seemed like they were moving in multiple directions lately, at different speeds, so to speak, what with all the strategy adjustments, and it looks like ASUS is one of the few that decided to speed things up.After all the tablet launches during MWC (Mobile World Congress) and CeBIT 2011, o...

21 March 2011
08:20 GMT

Asus Tablets Getting Some Availability Details, MeMO Pricing Revealed

Back at CES 2011, Asus really took the world by storm by unveiling a full lineup of new (and actually, quite exciting) tablets, and now, almost two months later, the first details regarding their pricing and availability have also started to pop up.As some of you might remember, during our recent visit at MWC 2011 in...

1 March 2011
04:30 GMT

ASUS Slider Is a Mighty Tablet with a Physical Keyboard

It seems that a certain product shown off back at CES 2011 has found its way to MWC 2011 as well, as ASUS decided to come out in force, meaning that we were able to get our hands on the Eee Pad Slider. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, LG Optimus Pad, Motorola XOOM, HP Touchpad and Acer's Iconia Tab A500 are just a few ...

15 February 2011
03:35 GMT

1.5-2 Million ASUS Tablets to Ship in 2011

Since quite a bunch of tablets are about to, or have already been, revealed at Mobile World Congress 2011, it comes as no surprise to hear of companies already setting shipment goals, and reports have now given some inkling of what ASUS intends.Like most, if not all, notebook and consumer electronics makers out ther...

14 February 2011
04:53 GMT

Android 3.0 Eee Pad MeMO Completes the Asus CES 2011 Tablet Lineup

Since we've already talked about every single new tablet introduced by Asus at the International CES 2011 from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's now about time to tackle the last model revealed by the Taiwan-based giant on this occasion, namely the Eee Pad MeMO, a 7.1-inch device running Google's Android OS oper...

5 January 2011
07:39 GMT

More Details Emerge on the ASUS Eee Pad EP121 12-Inch Tablet

Like most, if not all, of its possible rivals, ASUS will be demonstrating at least one media tablet at CES 2011, and it appears that one in particular will grab attention, one which has just been detailed better than what previous rumors managed. So far, the majority of tablets released or announced have stuck to th...

27 December 2010
08:27 GMT

12-Inch ASUS Eee Pad Tablet Brings Core i5 to CES 2011

Even though media tablets have become seemingly split between Intel's Atom CPUs and the ARM architecture, there are models that skim on the edges of exception, like a certain ASUS Eee Pad. Saying that many tablets will be on display at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show would, at this point, be a...

23 December 2010
06:28 GMT

ASUS Uses Android OS in Eee Pad Tablets, Reveals Prices

By now, end-users will know that virtually all PC makers aim to enter the tablet market at some point, and ASUS seems especially eager to do so, having even reportedly disclosed some general details, including the pricing, of several Eee Pad slates set to debut over the following months.Tablet PC have been selling f...

13 August 2010
09:08 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad EP101TC Tablet Dumps Windows For Android

Though PC makers have been doing their best to finalize their first batch of tablets as soon as possible, most are already looking ahead and preparing for the future. ASUS, for instance, is working on a slate that won't debut until next year. Said tablet goes by the name of Eee Pad EP101TC and was supposed to en...

20 July 2010
06:49 GMT

ASUS Gets Real with the Windows 7-Powered Eee Pad

The revolution of Internet tablet has kicked off and ASUS is now jumping on this bandwagon with the introduction of its latest Eee product, the Eee Pad. Announced at this year's Computex show, which will kick off tomorrow , the new Eee Pad from ASUS is capable of running Microsoft's Windows 7 Home Premium o...

31 May 2010
04:20 GMT

ASUS Eee Pad Tablet Comes in June, Sells in July

Now that Dell's Looking Glass has been exposed and even Velocity Micro has decided to attend the slate party, it is, more or less, logical for leaks concerning other participants to sprout around the world. This time, the tablet phenomenon takes us to Taiwan, where ASUS is diligently working on finalizing its Ee...

23 April 2010
05:43 GMT

Tablet Imminent, ASUS Confirms Eee Pad

Of course, since Apple finally launched the iPad, other companies are no longer so reserved about launching their own tablet PCs. MSI has already revealed plans for a $500 slate and HP is already far enough along that it was able to release an official video of its own product. Preparing to join the tablet party is A...

29 January 2010
04:15 GMT

ASUS Supposedly Making NVIDIA Tegra-Powered Eee Pad with Multitouch

Most recent news has been focused on the newly released Pineview processors and how Intel says that NVIDIA's ION will be unpopular because of too many costly and unnecessary features. Still, there seem to be other developments involving NVIDIA technology, which may prove rather appealing to those interested in t...

23 December 2009
06:02 GMT


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