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ASUS Eee Tablet: the digital notepad
Daniel Carey
Remember back to the days of Apple’s Newton? Wouldn’t it be great if someone came out with a more modern, better equipped, 2010 model? That’s essentially what the ASUS Eee Tablet is (no not the Eee Pad, but the Eee Tablet). With an 8-inch 1024 x 768 TFT-LCD panel, the Eee Tablet sets out to offer the world’s best digital note taking experience. Should you get bored taking notes, the Eee Tablet comes equipped with a microSD slot (for all your ebooks. Yes, its also an ebook reader), as well as a 2-megapixel camera for the lazy man who can’t be bothered writing his lecture notes down. So it’s not E-Ink (thank god!) and it comes in 64-levels of grayscale, all-in-all it looks as though 23 years later the Newton (albeit sans PDA functionality) has some direct competition. Press release after the break.
ASUS Provides Tomorrow’s Technologies Today at Computex 2010
Innovative Eee Pad and Eee Tablet extend ASUS’ leadership in Cloud Computing
Fremont, California (May 31, 2010) ASUS’ leadership in innovation and design will once again be the focus at Computex 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan. ASUS will proudly showcase a wide range of products across five major categories: cloud computing, gaming, enthusiast-level PC components, multimedia and green computing. As a technological leader in cloud computing, ASUS offers a broad lineup of cloud-connected devices featuring on-the-fly data and multimedia sharing capabilities that consumers crave in today’s market.
The Notepad Goes Digital with the Eee Tablet
Innovation meets cloud computing at Computex 2010 with the ASUS Eee Tablet. With a 2450 dpi touch resolution screen, the Eee Tablet is one of the world’s most accurate and sensitive digital note taking devices, and gives the user the feel of writing on paper. Users can select one of the built-in notepad templates and have the option to store, sort and tag, organize or browse through them. Real time text annotations can also be made on-the-fly. The Eee Tablet makes reading easy, with text file page turns taking just 0.1 seconds-nine times faster than the page turns of normal e-readers. Reading documents or books remains easy on the users’ eyes even after prolonged viewing periods.
The ASUS Eee Tablet features a built-in 2 megapixel camera that captures detailed images, letting the user grab screenshots of lecture slides and write notes on them instantly. It easily syncs up with a PC or notebook via USB or Micro SD to ensure that all notes, content, and calendars are constantly kept up-to-date. With up to 10-hours of battery life, the Eee Tablet has enough power for a variety of tasks. At the end of the day, users not only have an electronic notepad, but a media player and e-reader as well.
