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The 2 Asus e-readers (video)

March 15th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware reviews, Sipix, video

Notebook Italia got their hands on both of the new Asus e-readers when they were at CeBIT a couple weeks ago. This is the first video I’ve seen that compared the 2, and the differences are fascinating. I especially like this photo they took shoiwng the edges of the 2 gadgets. It really brings the [...]

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Asus eeePad MeMo to ship with Android v3.0

February 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news

JKKMobile got an early look at the Asus eeePad MeMo on display at CeBIT this week. This 7″ Android tablet is going to launch sometime soon, and now we know that it will ship with the latest version of Android, Honeycomb, which has been optimized to work better on tablets. In addition to Honeycomb, this [...]

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Inside the Asus eeeNote

February 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news

Mike Cane tipped me to this photo. One of the early buyers of the Asus eeeNote has partially disassembled his e-reader and posted some pictures on Flickr. He hasn’t posted a complete shot of the circuit board yet, just this partial one. Note that it has an internal microSD card slot. There’s a bigger version [...]

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PDF & Epub on the Asus eeeNote

February 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware reviews

I came across a blog last night where someone had been documenting his experiences with the Asus eeeNote. He bought one back at the beginning of January, can you believe it? Asus really put a lot of work into this thing. The eeeNote has some impressive annotation abilities including scribbles, typed notes, and bookmarks. You [...]

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Asus eeeNote to sell for “under $200″ in the US

February 25th, 2011 · 9 Comments · hardware news

One of Asus’ official blogs just posted a promo post for the eeeNote. Asus are promising that the eeeNote, their e-reader with a grayscale LCD screen, will be available “soon”  with a retail under $200. If that is for real, then the e-reader market just flipped upside down again. With that retail price it’s a [...]

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Asus eeeNote has serious issues with its screen (video)

February 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware reviews, video

One of the early buyers of Asus’ new e-reader, the Asus eeeNote, has posted a video showing that the screen on the eeeNote is exceptionally picky about lighting. But I don’t know much about lighting a video so I’d appreciate a second opinion. Does this looked rigged? I’m having trouble believing that the screen could [...]

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Asus eeeNote EA800 coming to Europe in February

January 31st, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news

The other Asus e-reader just got price and release date. Asus plan to have this available in Europe next month with a retail of 259 € (about $355USD). The eeeNote is based on a low powered 8″ grayscale LCD screen (1024×768), and it has a Wacom touchscreen with a pressure sensitive pen, Wifi, 4GB Flash, [...]

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Asus DR-900 now available in Russia

January 30th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news, Sipix

Asus’ new 9″ e-reader was unveiled in Russia this week, making it the 3rd large screen e-reader in the country. It’s based on a Sipix screen and it has the same specs as when it was released in Taiwan: Wifi, 2GB Flash, microSD card slot, speakers, and a headphone jack. Battery life is 4 days [...]

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Asus DR-900 product page now live

November 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news, Sipix

Asus have updated the product page for their 9″ Sipix screen e-reader. At this point I’d say that it doesn’t really matter; we already knew most everything on the page. The DR-900 is based on a 9″ Sipix screen (1024 x 768 resolution) with a capacitive touchscreen. It has 2GB Flash, a microSD card slot, [...]

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Asus EEE Note A800 detailed

November 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Do you recall the EEE Tablet that Asus unveiled at Computex? No wait, it was the EEE Pad, wasn’t it? Ah heck with it. Asus are pretty bad about naming a device and sticking with it. They’re also pretty bad about giving clear information on their gadgets. What I do know is that the 8″ [...]

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