Today the Netbook News team went down to the ASUS headquarters to hang out with the Eee Pad team, and we learned something that actually made us breath a sigh of relief. The EP101TC pad will dropping Windows CE and will be shipped with Android. Rather than running an outdated Windows CE, ASUS and the majority of tablet manufacturers will be relying on Google’s Operating System. There is no further insight in Android 3.0 or Gingerbread but we have to admit we are pretty curious to find out what happens in the Fall. ASUS is planning on waiting for the 3.0 dust to settle and launch in Q1 of 2011 with products on display at CES. If you just can’t wait until January, you might be able to grab a sneak peak with some telcos as they will be delivering the good first to them in December.
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Tell me about it! CES can’t come soon enough!!
But but, we still have the google tablet from verizon, right?
That is a good news…but guys do it fast..millions are waiting for it!!
You need to crack open the dictionary and look up the word “now”. Nothing is shipping now. There is some vaporware that may ship in 2011, unless Asus changes its mind yet again.
So “Now Shipping” means “Not Shipping Yet?” You should really learn not to flat-out lie in your headline.
no it got shipped already and not from asus by acer. it seems that you missed it. actually the whole article is a lie, like my comment and this whole thing you call life.
man, get a grip and try to read the article before publishing this bs
well nicole might have screwed up the title a little bit (well actually she clears it up in the article)but actually you should look up the definition of vaporware. This isn't duke nukem forever, this is a product which we saw already during computex in june and if you are following the industry a little bit (which somehow i am expecting from guys leaving any “vaporware” comments)you would know that NVIDIA isn't shipping Tegra 2 before the end of this year.
If you really felt deceived by the headline, you've probably got bigger problems than this (starting with reading comprehension). It was pretty clear after reading the post what the author meant.
Besides, we all know you jut saw the link from daringfireball, same as everyone else, and just wanted to parrot Gruber's comment. Simmer down, Gruber's snarks are much better.
The headline plainly says “now.” It is not now. Maybe someone needs English lessons, or more likely, needs to write more honest headlines. Not shipping now. Said to be shipping in the new year. That's not too hard, is it?
When Microsoft had nothing but a few videos of a supposed product named “Courier,” it was always shown in close proximity to the iPad launch. Lots of commenters on lots of sites said how superior this was to the already-demoed iPad. After the launch, the product was cancelled. Lots of people were disappointed.
Many, many people hate Apple for its secrecy. Okay. But the pre-announcement of things that never get shipped, and really seemed to be just tactical announcements to keep people from buying Thing A while they wait for Thing B, is really objectionable too.
Rather than. Not rather then. That's not the first or the last grammar error in this short article. Yikes.
“How about ASUS EP101TC Instead Shipping with Android in Q1 2011″
Sure hope they changed to Android a long time ago because 6 mo or so is not much time to make a usable product.
Sad. Defending a crappy article with so much grammatical errors. But since this is a blog, I forgive you.
“Exclusive: EP101TC won't ship with Windows, says ASUS”
Oh and what about: “Steve Ballmer believed to be throwing chairs in ASUS' general direction”?
Nicole Scott's use of English is so peculiar that I suspect it isn't her native language.
As a professional copy editor I have mixed feelings about this: I don't mind idiosyncratic expression if it adds character to writing; but when it obscures meaning, as in Ms Scott's case, then it's time to sharpen the editorial pencil, or send Ms Scott to a remedial English class, or both.
Sadder, yet: “…with so much grammatical errors.” Maybe you meant “…with so many grammatical errors.” That, or you were just being snarky?
Why do I suspect that the final shipping product will have lots of extra buttons and doo-dads on it, like an Android phone, rather than the clean Photoshopped lines shown above?
What are you on about?? The title of the article is blatantly false. Why lie in the title and clear it up in the article? (Doesn't really clear anything up in the article anyway)
Busted, English is my first language but was in a French language school until high school! I’ll be sure to take my English teacher friends up on their grammar school offer asap!
“This isn't duke nukem forever, this is a product which we saw already during computex in june”
So you saw a demo of a prototype. So what?
Back in January, at CES, Steve Ballmer showed off an HP Slate running Windows 7, but HP cancelled it before shipping a single unit. Palm demoed their Foleo netbook at the All Things Digital conference in 2007, and that product was also cancelled before it ever shipped.
Just because some company can build and demo a prototype doesn't mean it will ever ship it as a product.
References:
HP Slate Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag3TNquUlEg
Palm Foleo Demo: http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070530/palm-foleo/
for very large values of “now”…..
not sure if there are any classes for learning how to read an article and then leave a comment but i am sure, you should be on one.
Yippee! I'm glad Asus is going Android.
It makes sense, because Android was designed from the start to work with a touch interface. It also has all the 3G telephony ability built-in.
This would contrast with Microsoft's really bad mobile devices, where Microsoft tries to shoe-horn its desktop Windows OS into the slate, which doesn't work.
This Android Asus slate is going to be one great machine.
Depends
@crowd. i don't think so.
this in android circa 2007. right before the first gen iphone.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/a-visual-tou...
scroll down for a 2007 picture of the hardware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating...)
Slipping in the (Now) still makes me think that it's shipping “now”. Is it just me or does anyone else find themselves more and more having to correct or otherwise point out the flaws of gadget blogs, even “respectable” ones like Wired?
I'm sorry if I'm coming off as a grammar Nazi, nitpicker, etc . . .
O Sascha, Sascha, Sascha: It shouldn't be the responsibility of readers to decipher what journalists write. Instead journalists and their editors should do their utmost to make sure that what they publish is clear and unambiguous right from the get-go, don't you think?
(A curse of much on-line journalism is that not enough eyes see copy before it is published; many newspaper and magazine publishers have long resented having to pay copy editors and proof readers and have made sure that their on-line publications have to make do without them.)
By the way, you said you thought I should be on a class; of course you meant in one.
But but, we still have the google tablet from verizon, right?..
But but, we still have the google tablet from verizon, right?..
Nope, you are dead on Milan. That type of title ticks me off as I am looking for a tablet that is truly (Now) shipping! LOL
oh come on guys, it says Q1 2011. For the nitpickers i am trying to translate the title again:
instead of shipping it with windows ce, they now decided to ship it with android in q1 2011. sorry but i think you just have way too much time on your hand or you simply can't get it!
first of all, we are not journalists, we are bloggers. nuff said cause this discussion is just hilarious. i almost have the feeling that i am back on my german blog cause that's the hotspot of all grammar nazis. this comparison with so called professional journalists is pathetic, cause every single day i can point you to a dozen times, washington post and whatever articles with misspellings.
don't be a hypocrat claiming being a professional copy editor and leaving comments like this under a nickname on a small niche blog. that's simply ridiculous