CES 2011: Asus Eee Pad Transformer Now Official

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After the Asus Eee Slate EP121 Windows 7 tablet and the Asus Eee Pad MeMO Android tablet we have a new Android device for you, which was announced just a few minutes ago at CES 2011, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer.

The Eee Pad Transformer is an Android machine, and, although it’s also a tablet, we’ll be able to call it an Android laptop/netbook too since this baby packs a keyboard or a keyboard dock by default. That’s why we call it the Transformer in the first place.

The Eee Pad Transformer is a 10.1-inch 1,280 x 800 IPS display that packs a NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor and Android 2.3 Gingerbread under the hood with an Asus custom UI called My Wave on top. Hopefully though Honeycomb is just around the corner!

The Eee Pad Transformer is said to be twice as fast as the iPad and, if it matters, even thinner than Apple’s tablet with the Transformer measuring just 0.51-inch in thickness. The tablet will also offer you up to 16 hours of battery life which is, again, better than the iPad.

The Eee Pad Transformer will be available in stores in April, probably just around the same time Apple will launch the iPad 2 and it will cost from $399 to $699. Anyone excited about a tablet that still comes with netbook features?