Unlike Acer that has reported heavy financial losses that won’t allow the company to break even for at least a year, ASUS has done well for itself. In its quarterly financial results, ASUS announced an increase in consolidated net profit for the second quarter, going up from T$3.32 billion a year earlier and T$3.42 billion in the previous quarter to T$3.595 billion ($124 million).
ASUS has had great success with the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, the Honeycomb tablet that went on sale for $400. This tablet is the most successful after Apple’s iPad 2. For the price and features, ASUS easily leaves the likes of Motorola XOOM, Acer Iconia Tab A500 and Toshiba Thrive behind. A $150 keyboard dock with added battery and connectivity ports adds to the tab’s appeal. In fact, the tab was in short supply days after releasing in Europe and US.
ASUS expects Eee Pad tablet shipments to double to 800,000 units in the third quarter. The company is making sure waiting periods don’t slow down sales this time around.
ASUS is also launching the ASUS Eee Pad Slider in September or so we expect. We’re thinking this will be another successful device though may not reach the same heights as the Transformer. There is a 3G version of ASUS Eee Pad Transformer in the line (picked up by someone in Taiwan but we’re hoping that’s not the final version) and we’re expecting great things from it, especially as Asustek Chairman Jonney Shih describes it as “impressive.” A quad-core Kal-El processor will be just the thing to take ASUS’ success to new heights.
Are you waiting for ASUS Eee Pad Slider or ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 3G?
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Yes. This tablet is amazing.
While a Kal-El tablet may be a nice improvement, it will be evolutionary, not revolutionary. I’m more interested in Asus’ Padfone concept.
This pad far outshines the ipad. You can even actually do things on it, unlike the locked down ipad. Usb ports, sd card reader built in, flash, and realtime video out really makes this pad productive. NOTE TO APPLE: There iz no such thing as “consuming” media. You’ve paid the devil to help sell this heavy-handed approach to media and you lock your ipad down so thatitisunusable. Get out of bed with the media companies. Media is reusable data, just like any other data. It is not consumed like a banana. The ipad was not able to replace my laptop on the road, but my asus transformer did!
This pad far outshines the ipad. You can even actually do things on it, unlike the locked down ipad. Usb ports, sd card reader built in, flash, and realtime video out really makes this pad productive. NOTE TO APPLE: There iz no such thing as “consuming” media. You’ve paid the devil to help sell this heavy-handed approach to media and you lock your ipad down so thatitisunusable. Get out of bed with the media companies. Media is reusable data, just like any other data. It is not consumed like a banana. The ipad was not able to replace my laptop on the road, but my asus transformer did!
I can’t agree more with the previous post. The transformer allowed me to say goodbye to full-size laptops for good. The keyboard turns the tablet into a netbook better than any bluetooth keyboard could, and the lower hardware demands of android give it the speed and function that windows netbooks would never achieve. Let’s not forget the 2 USB ports and SD/ MicroSD ports allow for additional accessories and storage that the Apple didn’t see fit to provide. Oh yeah…and it lasts for 16 hours with the keyboard attached. Had it for a month now, and couldn’t be happier.
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