ASUS exec confirms Eee Pad tablet plans, picks a bad day
By Donald Melanson 
posted January 27th 2010 10:39AM
posted January 27th 2010 10:39AM
We've been hearing rumors of a Tegra-powered Eee Pad tablet for quite a while now, and it looks like ASUS exec Eric Chen has now finally confirmed the obvious, responding to a question about ASUS' tablet plans by saying, "yes, sure. We have the Eee Pad." Unfortunately, he didn't offer too much else in the way of details, saying only that it will have an ARM CPU and a 3G connection, and that Asus is paying particular attention to the user interface (even citing the iPhone as an example). Somewhat curiously, Chen also apparently dropped the term "Eee Book" when talking about ASUS' other plans, which would seem to be the first time it's been used in any sort of official capacity, although it's not clear exactly what he was referring to.
sweet, no mention of the Apple Tablet in this post!
well kinda
@goatlover
And you had to ruin it :'(
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Honestly people if Asus wanted better PR they need to build it up a little.
Asking the big guy you have a tablet and for him to reply "yer sure" you can hear the lack excitment even from him. He's prob more buzzed up by what he's eat at lunch time!
'so do you have chips for lunch?'
"yes I have the longest cheesiest cheese puffs ever. The taste and flavour will blow you away. They pack a big cruch to wait till you get ur hands on these! And yer sure we have an eee pad"
so im saying not a bad day, not the money, not engadget, just bad presentation!
@Maysie
Why don't people just go to to the read link?
It's more than just a "yes, sure." He then went to to discuss the project despite its only being in its nascent phase. The man conveys a vision of how he wants the project to come out -- a lovely one, might I add. The pithy "Yes, sure. We have the Eee Pad." in the post didn't capture the spirit or content of the original article adequately at all.
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"A slate? Yes, sure. We have the Eee Pad. Which right now is still under development. Basically, it will have an ARM CPU and a 3G connection so you are always connected to the internet, so just like with the Eee Book you are always connected.
"And you can choose to play video or something, when you like. Now the key is how to combine the content together. That will be the key. We have studied how people will want to connect to their content and also how they want to interact with the user interface (UI).
"You look at the iPhone, for example. The reason the iPhone is so successful – and call quality is really not that good – is the UI function, I think, is just the best. So this is also the way that we need to improve."
@Maysie
Good products sell themselves, mediocre products get sold by armies of fanboys, loyal blogs, and a flashy presentation like the one we are going to see later today.
Much more interesting to me, since I'm not considering joining the iCult anytime soon.
@Verythrax
me either
I'm looking forward to this
Because the T91/T101h were such a raging success?
Can you even buy the t101h in the US yet?
@Luffy smells like Chrome OS and I like it.
Dear Asus,
Please put a PixelQi screen in this :-)
Better than iPAd.
@kando
And considering that the IPad does LESS (limited web browsing due to lack of Flash support, No multitasking, Limited to 64GB, Limited to the apps Apple allows you to run) makes it by no means innovative.
Just because you pay more and get less does not make it innovative.
Also for those thinking Apple had the idea first, please research the Crunchpad, which was being worked on wayyyy before you IPhone could send a picture message.
Eh, I'll wait till the field grows and there are multiple products I can choose from.