ASUS Eee Tablet: a notepad with impressive 2450 dpi touchscreen sensitivity (updated)
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 31st 2010 3:31AM
posted May 31st 2010 3:31AM
Don't call it the Eee Pad, this is ASUS' Eee Tablet -- a digital notebook with a 2,450 dpi touchscreen and lickity quick 0.1 second page turns on a backlight-less TFT-LCD offering 64-levels of grey. As such, ASUS is calling its Eee Tablet one of the world's most accurate and sensitive note taking devices available. The other being paper and pencil of course. While the Eee Tablet will serve up texts and ebooks for reading just fine, ASUS is really pushing the note taking feature with built-in notepad templates and the ability to store, sort, tag, and annotate your notes on the fly. It comes packing a MicroSD slot and 2 megapixel camera for snapping lecture slides which students or professionals can then annotate and then sync back to a PC over USB. Battery life? 10 hours -- so yeah, it's not E-Ink... but then again it's not E-Ink.
Update: Uh, ok, we've received clarification here at Computex. Apparently, when ASUS says "a 2450 dpi touch resolution screen" they actually mean a 2,450 dpi input sensitivity. In other words, annotations probably will feel like writing on paper, or an 8-inch 1024 x 768 pixel panel, anyway.
Update 2: We've just been told to expect the Eee Tablet to cost somewhere between $199 and $299 of the green stuff when it launches sometime in September.
Update 3: Lookie here -- we've got a hands-on preview up, video and all.
Update: Uh, ok, we've received clarification here at Computex. Apparently, when ASUS says "a 2450 dpi touch resolution screen" they actually mean a 2,450 dpi input sensitivity. In other words, annotations probably will feel like writing on paper, or an 8-inch 1024 x 768 pixel panel, anyway.
Update 2: We've just been told to expect the Eee Tablet to cost somewhere between $199 and $299 of the green stuff when it launches sometime in September.
Update 3: Lookie here -- we've got a hands-on preview up, video and all.
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.
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.
@Jurgen
I like the way you think.
I love how some commenters are lapping up the 2450 dpi as the actual resolution when no display technology approaching that has ever been announced. Settle down people. Wait for the facts.
Finally, some real-life pictures. I have to wonder, if they didn't do color, why didn't they use e-ink?
@pika2000
Probably because EPD is expensive and rather blows in terms of responsiveness.
Definitely what I was looking for. It's about time.
This would be great for students taking notes in class.
If it is really good enough, it might even replace OneNote.
For $200, I might even buy one. Then I would be carrying sony w211 netbook, lenovo x61tablet, and this thing.
It's official due to the pricing, we have a real potential game changer.
Consider me sold. That price tag is awesome for this little monster. The whole concept of me saving money on buying notebooks for school? Awesome :)
I just hope it has some type of file system for organizing notes; like folders. That way I could divide them up by class, and even make a nice little doodles section ;)
@ForwardTwo
...and how your notes sync with your PC, like stated in the press release, and if - and how - you can export them.
The price tag makes this thing really interesting, I'll probably get one at that price.
if there's a way for me to put the slides (pdf) of my classes on it to annotate them, then i'm sold
@mattei
I hope or this would be a bust
Sounds interesting, I wonder how readable the screen is?
Now if only it had a colour screen and can run photoshop then I'd be sold
@Kanpai888
true. but if its more like a sketching device.. full PS might not be necessary.
Wow, release this by September and every college student will get one. :D
...somehow i have the feeling this is not going to look as awesome as on the main picture above but instead like a cheaply put together plastic pile. i hope my feeling is turns out to be wrong!
@fuesse
No, you're probably right. At the price they're looking to push this thing at, it'll probably feel like cheap junk.
@BubbaJ So what? If I can stop lugging around piles of paper and notebooks with me I don't care what it feels like, anything is better than paper right now, it's driving me crazy.
@EroThraX
i hate >dont care people< very much.
(to judge from the video the hardware quality actually seems very nice. the rest not so much)
Will this be the drawing pad I hope it can be? Do we think this could be a Wacom Cintiq 12 killer?
@jimmy1
100% NO >> watch the video
@jimmy1 Read the article... "ASUS is really pushing the note taking feature with built-in notepad templates and the ability to store, sort, tag, and annotate your notes on the fly."
So you telling me to read the article AND watch the video before making misinformned comments. Blimey thats alot to do at a time - I could only manage looking at the pictures (egg + face = idiot that I am)
64 levels of grey...looks like someone stayed in the 90's....
if it runs photoshop, im game!
Oh my, I will buy this just in time before I finish the final school months.
OOOOHHHHHH....this is really nice...like writing on paper? but it'd be better to have this colored as soon as possible. like really coloring on paper.
Why can't we get something like this with Onenote.