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Ever since Apple introduced the iPad to the world at Large, it has been been a positive downpour of tablet/slate type devices of all kinds.You cannot get away from them, they are everywhere. In the midst of all the controversy about whether they are really useful and consumer being confused about what do with them — these so called ‘iPad Killers’ have been leaking out and getting announced by the dozen. Asus, being the company they are, have as usual looked at the trend and thought of what small modification they might be able to add that can allow them to create their own copy cat tablet. So what’s the number one complaint that you got to hear about tablets — where’s the damn keyboard! Seems like Asus has tried fixing exactly that.
Asus had previously launched a standard tablet in the guise of the Asus Eee MeMo and a tablet with a bolt on keyboard in the guise of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer. Now it has come up with the new Eee Pad Slider, a tablet that reveals a QWERTY keyboard beneath it when one pushes the screen back and upwards. Much like the slider smartphones that have been around in the market for quite some time now.
The new Eee Pad Slider weighs 886 grams, is 16.7mm thick, has dual cameras — a 1.2 MP one in front for video chatting and a 5 MP one at the back for shooting — and comes with Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core processor. The operating system is Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) although like all the Android Asus devices on show on CES in Las Vegas, it was running Android 2.2 (Froyo).
It has 1280 x 800-resolution display, and houses mini-HDMI and mini USB ports as well as a micro SD card slot. The capacitive touchscreen uses an IPS display and apparently it has decent viewing angles. It also offers an Adobe Flash 10.1 support so that one can “enjoy the full experience” of the web. The Tegra chip helps make the running of Apps and using the device easier. This will of course create quite a drain on the battery but the new crop of tablet makers don’t seem to care much about that.
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Onboard 3G is optional, which means the base model is WiFi only. How useful a slide out keyboard will be on a 10 inch tablet is debatable .but apparently it has a nice amount of resistance to the keys and features-dedicated Android shortcut keys are spread around the standard QWERTY layout. So you have the advantage of having the Home, Menu, Search and Back keys. But you still can’t use more than your thmbs for typing while holding it up — it is designed to be set down on a surface. If there’s one thing this tablet can beat though, it is netbooks. With some basic productivity apps, it can easily replace netbooks, which now look bulky in comparison.
To pull the keyboard out, you simply lift one edge of the screen and pull. The keyboard appears below, and the display is propped up at an angle which should make typing comfortable. On pushing the back of the screen forward again, you can close the tablet. The dock has an integrated battery that will keep the tablet running for 16 hours on a charge; however the tablet on its own should last for eight hours.
The Asus Eee Pad Slider is expected to be in the market by May this year. ASUS says that the prices for the Slider will range from $500 to $800.
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