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A little over a year ago, at CES 2011, ASUS announced an Android tablet called the Transformer. What made it special was that you could dock it into a keyboard and essentially use it as a laptop. The first Transformer hit the Asian market in March, and one month later it showed up in both…
Everyone loves Asus’ Transformer Prime these days and there’s nothing strange about it. After all, it’s the world’s first (and still the only) tablet powered by a quad-core processor that also comes with that ever-handy keyboard dock. And while I love it too, I think I would love a 7-inch version even more. The reason…
Asus will release the bootloader unlock tool for its Transformer Prime tablet/netbook device in February. The Taiwanese company turned to Twitter to announce the news and give developers some head start as they begin working on their own custom ROMs. Yep, the minute the bootloader unlock tool is out, we expect to see few custom…
If you’re one of many folks from Canada craving to get the new ASUS Transformer Prime, you’ll be glad to know it’s now available at Future Shop stores. Online, it was already sold out, though you can check out this page to monitor when it’s once again ready for ordering. Or you could walk to…
Want to the 3G-enabled Asus Transformer Prime? Well, you can forget about it – Asus said it won’t release a 3G version of the existing Transformer Prime tablet. According to FocusTaiwan, “no such product exists on its [Asus’] current roadmap.” Now you could hope that the upcoming version of the tablet turned notebook, Transformer Prime…
Late last year ASUS announced the Transformer Prime, the first Android tablet to use NVIDIA’s new quad core Tegra 3 chip. They said it would ship before Christmas, and it did … but in numbers so small that you can’t really say that it sold in any significant volume. What’s holding things up? Some folks…
If you want the sexy Asus Transformer Prime, you’re not alone. As a matter of fact, not all folks who pre-ordered the Android-powered tablet turned netbook will get their units on time in the UK. According to a local branch of the Taiwanese company, high demand for the Transformer Prime has caused shortages. Here’s their…
If you’re one of the owners of the original Eee Pad Transformer, you may be looking at those Transformer Prime users with a dose of envy. Not only they have a sexier tablet/netbook, but they also were the first to get the Ice Cream Sandwich update. But… you’ll get your Android 4.0 fix too, with…
As far as we know Asus is the first major company to release an Ice Cream Sandwich update for one of its products. That product is the Asus Transformer Price, which when used with a keyboard dock practically morphs into a netbook. Unfortunately we don’t have the change log, but we did hear that once…
Several minutes ago the folks at The Verge posted an article about a refreshed version of the ASUS Transformer Prime, but then they suddenly decided to pull the post for reasons we don’t yet understand. Thanks to the internet though, it’s resurfaced in full and the gist of it is this: ASUS is going to…