Asus has released its financial results for the third quarter of 2011, and the company beat its forecast for net profits. The company also revealed some interesting figures about product shipments. Asus shipped 1.3 million Eee PC netbooks in Q3, bringing the total for the year so far to 3.6 million. Meanwhile, Asus shipped 800,000 Eee Pad tablets in the…

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You know that smartphone/tablet combination device Asus has been teasing us with for the past few days? The company is set to officially announce it tomorrow, but a series of pictures has leaked out in advance of the press conference giving a much better idea of how the whole thing works. Apparently what we have here is an Android tablet…

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The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is scheduled to hit the streets in Taiwan on Friday, March 25th. That will make it the first tablet from Asus to ship with Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and also the first tablet from Asus with a removable keyboard option. Asus is expected to launch 3 other Honeycomb tablets in the coming months. The Eee…

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Acer, Asus, and LG have been showing off Android tablets for a few months, but aside from Asus most of the companies have been reluctant to spill any details about pricing. Now Spanish retailer Phone House has published an ad showing prices for 4 upcoming tablets including the Motorola XOOM, Acer Iconia A100, LG Optimus Pad, and an Asus Eee…

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The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is one of four new tablets Asus introduced this week. Like the Eee Pad Slider, this model features a high resolution 10.1 inch 1280 x 800 pixel IPS capacitive touchscreen display, a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, and a custom user interface designed to run on top of Android and give you quick access…

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Asus is set to unveil a new line of tablet computers next week at CES. The company teased us with a video of the 12.1 inch EP121 a few days ago, followed by a few close-up photos of various tablets. But the company also did something a little sneaky — a day after uploading the teaser video for the company’s…

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Asus is set to introduce a new line of tablets (among other things) at a pre-CES press conference a week from today. But the company has decided to whet our appetites by releasing a few photos of three new Eee Pad models. Some of the photos clearly show a physical keyboard — although it’s not entirely clear from these camera…

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We’ve known for a while that Asus is working on multiple tablet devices, but if the information DigiTimes is reporting is correct, we had no idea just how many tablets Asus had in the works. That’s a reasonably sized “if.” The site does have a history of misquoting company execs or presenting rumors as fact. Still, DigiTimes says it’s obtained…

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The Asus Eee Pad  EP101TC is a 10 inch tablet that Asus plans to launch as a competitor to the Apple iPad. While we’d heard reports last month that Asus had dropped plans to ship the tablet with Windows Embedded Compact 7 and instead use Google Android, PC World reports that Asus will actually launch two models, one with each…

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When Asus officially announced plans for its upcoming Eee Pad tablets, the company said there would be a 12 inch tablet running Windows 7 called the Eee Pad EP121, and 10 inch model called the Eee PC EP101 which would run Windows Embedded Compact 7, or the next version of Windows CE. But today Netbook News reports that Asus has…

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There will also be an Eee Pad EP101TC which has a 10 inch display and which runs Windows Embedded Compact 7. Asus isn’t spilling the beans on the hardware specs for this model yet. Both models should hit the streets early in 2011. Earlier this year Asus showed off a tablet prototype at NVIDIA’s booth at the Consumer Electronics show…

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Asus has been working on a Google Android tablet since at least the turn of the year. But the prototype that was on display at CES in January was a non-functioning unit, so we haven’t really seen what the Asus iPad killer competitor can do. Now DigiTimes is reporting that the tablet will be on display at the Computex trade…

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