Just days before the iPad release, and obviously keen to ride the cresting wave of Tablet-hysteria (Tabsteria, I’ve decided I’m going to call it), ASUS chairman Jonney Shih has had a nice sit-down with Forbes magazine and dropped details about their tablet plans (we all knew they’d have something up their sleeves following an “ASUS Tablet Concept” unit was shown off at CES).
Over the coming months they’ll be releasing “at least two” tablet devices – one running on Windows (you have to assume Windows 7 at this point), the other on a Google OS – either Android or Chrome OS. Mr Shih admits hardware is only one element of what makes up a good tablet – “Content will play a very important role on tablets, the Google tablet will have a lot of media.”.
ASUS made it’s name by carving out a new market for themselves – Netbooks – so it will certainly be interesting to see how they fare in this already-pretty-crowded marketplace, but if they can combine some of the new design flare they’ve been showing off with their famously decent prices, these could be a products to be excited about. Hell, if they just used the same chassis from their DR-900 eReader (pictured above) it’d look better than 90% of the tablets already on the market.
Source: Forbes
