Posted on Friday, April 23 2010 @ 13:33 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Asustek chairman Jerry Shen
revealed the Tegra 2 based Eee Pad device will be released in Q3 2010. Anonymous sources believe the tablet will be priced at NT$15,000-16,000 (US$479-510) and that total shipments will reach 300,000 units this year.
Asustek Computer chairman Jerry Shen has announced, at a conference in Taiwan, that the company will introduce its tablet PC, the Eee Pad, at Computex 2010, scheduled between June 1-5, and is aiming to launch the device in retail channels in the third quarter of 2010, which sources from component makers revealed will be late July.
To compete against Apple's iPad, Asustek has strengthened the Eee Pad's industrial design and has cooperated with Google to adopt its Android platform. Asustek will also add features that iPad currently does not support such as USB, integrated webcam, and Adobe Flash, Shih noted.
