The red hot tablet from Asus, which is a potential challenger to Apple's popular iPad 2, is all set to hit shelves in India in January 2012. Friday, December 16, 2011: Asus will launch the much-awaited quad-core Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet in India next month. The device will run Google's latest mobile OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The pricing of the device has yet not been disclosed.
Unaez Quraishi, sales and distribution director-system business group, Asus (India) said at an event in Gurgaon Wednesday that the tablet, now available for pre-order in the UK, would be launched in India in January next year.
The 25.4-cm (10-inch) tablet is powered by Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 processor. It is worth mentioning here that Apple's iPad 2 and Samsung's Galaxy Tab come with dual-core processors. The Transformer Prime is capable of running multimedia and applications faster, with more processing power provided by the four processing cores. However, its Android-based software is still to be optimised to take advantage of the amount of power its processor contains.
The Asus Transformer Prime's battery lasts 9.5 hours; in addition, the total battery life can be extended to a total of 18 hours once the tablet is connected to its keyboard dock. It also comes equipped with 1GB of RAM, a 1.2-megapixel front camera and an 8-megapixel camera with flash on the back.
Quraishi added, "The company was waiting for the opportune time to launch the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, which caused the delay in its launch."
Asus is also planning to bring 4-5 more tablet PCs to the Indian market next year, which will work on different operating systems. Though it is yet not confirmed, one of these might also be a Windows 8 tablet. These tablets will be priced differently. However, none of these would be low-cost (sub-Rs 10k) devices, Quraishi informed.
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