Asus Prime Transformer: Tablet or Netbook?

Asus has officially unveiled the transformer Prime. The successor of EEE pad transformer has a quad-core processor, a battery life of up to 18 hours and a 10.1-inch touchscreen.

 ASUS transformer Prime with docking station

 

With the transformer of the Taiwanese manufacturer of ASUS has revealed a Tablet Prime, in a NetBook turn like the predecessor of a separately available docking station can be and is therefore also to write long text. In the Interior of 8.3 mm thin and 586 g of light aluminium housing the device as the world's first tablet with a 1.4 GHz of fast NVIDIA Tegra 3 is equipped quad-core processor, 1 GB memory to the page are which. Already the tablet alone offers a battery life of up to 12 hours, in combination with the docking station to even impressive 18 hours be achieved.

 

ASUS transformer Prime

 

 The capacitive touch screen offers a diagonal of 10.1 inches at a resolution of 1280 x 800 px. The IPS panel is protected against scratches thanks to Gorilla glass and is intended to provide a viewing angle of 178 degrees and an increased brightness, so the content should also be clearly visible at Outside. The built-in camera on the back offers a resolution of 8 MP and a LED flash and can record videos with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 px. For video telephony is on the front also a 1.2-MP camera. For communication there are Wi-Fi b / g / n and Bluetooth 2.1 on board, Asus also installed a GPS module.

Connections to the micro-tablet one HDMI output and a headphone socket provides a 3.5-mm format. In the docking station are next to the keyboard and the touchpad also installed a USB port and an SD card reader. Depending on the model, the internal memory 32 or 64 GB. This can be further extended by up to 32 GB with a lack of space on the microSD card slot. With the distribution is in the Android version 3.2 aka Honeycomb is used, an update to Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich to follow later.

In the United States to the 32-GB model of the transformer Prime cost $ 499, while due to the model with 64 GB of memory to be USD 599. The separately sold docking station will cost $ 149th When the tablet will be available Asus has not yet announced.