ASUS has caught in a conflict with the Android modding community recently because the the community has found out that ASUS has properly encrypted their Transformer Prime tablet so no unofficial or unsigned ROMs could be installed.

This by far is the first case on a WiFi-only device to get such thing as encrypted bootloader. It’s a common case for Android 3G Smartphones because the carrier would like to protect their device from modification of 3G/4G radio signal on their network, but a WiFi-only device is certainly a waste of effort.

Of course, we are not sure what is ASUS’s intention, but it’s sure has set some ‘flames’ in the modding community. On a general usage, ASUS Transformer Prime is amazing. However, you won’t be able to tweak it further if you’ve got the skills.

More story: SlashGear and Engadget

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ASUS Transformer Prime is really selling well. We have found several big outlets like Amazon or Newegg has run out of stock just a several days after launching in the US market. Now, rumor says that ASUS Transformer Prime would be delayed for Italian market as they manufacturer can’t produce enough units to fulfill the raving demands. It would seems that Italian will get the share later in January 2012 instead of the pre-determined date on December 19th, 2011.

To cover up the delay, ASUS is promising that the Transformer Prime will be pre-installed with Google Android 4.0 ICS instead of Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS. Users could free from the risk of self updating the OS and enjoy the best and most advanced Android OS up to date.

Though there is no idea when the country in Asia region would get the share…

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ASUS Transformer Prime Hits Italy In January With Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime is not only strong on the processing side, thanks to the Tegra 3 SoC ability, it allow this tablet to record full HD 1080p video in 30 fps using its 8-megapixel rear-facing camera. The result is really amazing, no lag, smooth and it could effect add effects on-the-fly. Such as you can give sepia tone, black and white, inverted, time lapse and more! Watch the following video for more details:

More reason to buy Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Hopefully, the after sales service and out of warranty repair service would be as good as Apple’s.

[via Geeky Gadgets][Droid Life]

Asus Transformer Prime 8 Megapixel Camera Demo
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Even more details has been giving by Ritchie on his Ritchie’s Room blog about the upcoming ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android tablet. It’s been quite interesting to see how this tablet is going to crash the competition with its outstanding specification and features. Now after the first look, I can feel that ASUS will make a big come back with this second generation of tablet after their first transformer pad.

Credit: Ritchie’s Room

What’s quite interesting to know is the sound quality. As what Ritchie has said in his blog, ASUS Transformer Prime is “unexpectedly loud and clear”, despite of its small speaker allocation. “the speaker is as effective as anything I’ve experienced so far on tablets.” said Ritchie, “In fact, I found that by holding the tablet in a way that cups the grill actually enhances the audio quality even more.”

It’s quite good to know that even an onboard speaker system without premium treatment could work well. Sadly, the video above didn’t show us how well the multimedia player work, and how well the sounding system is. We’ll wait for the upcoming video as Ritchie has stated in the comment section of his blog that he will be testing out the multimedia option of ASUS Transformer Prime.

Go to Ritchie’s Room for more details of his first look review.

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If you have been deeply fall in love with the new ASUS Transformer Prime tablet after watching the demo done by NVIDIA and the detail specs list, you might want to pre-order one right now at Amazon!

Yes, Amazon is now taking pre-order for this tablet device for $499 (32GB) and $599 (64GB). Of course, the price is excluding the keyboard dock as it’s an optional accessory. The keyboard dock itself (TF201 Mobile Docking) is sold separately for $149, which could also add more battery life to the ASUS Transformer prime that total up to 18 hours per full charge.

However, it’s sad that Amazon haven’t published the shipping date at the moment. It’s been told that the tablet will be delivered in December, but no exact date given yet. Hopefully, it will have no delay and will be just in time for Christmas. As a refresh, ASUS Transformer Prime is the most advanced tablet computer in the world with Tegra 3 SoC and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. This tablet is coming with 10.1-inch IPS display that support up to 1280 x 1024 pixels resolution. You can choose either 32GB or 64GB model, has 1GB DDR2 RAM and come pre-installed with Google Android 3.2 honeycomb where you can later update it to Android 4.0 ICS.

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NVIDIA has just published a new video demo to show us how cool the Ice Cream Sandwich OS on ASUS Transformer Prime tablet. The movement/transition on the interface is absolutely as smooth as iOS version on iPad 2. NVIDIA made this video to let us know how strong their Tegra 3 is, and at the same time they test how the hardware could play a 1080p video smoothly on ASUS Transformer Prime tablet.

It’s obvious anyway, Tegra 3 could play 40Mbps – 60Mbps streams while Tegra 2 is only capable of playback 5Mbps videos. In the video demo above, NVIDIA crew show us how he can group icons together by dragging one to the top of another, where the ICS (a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich – Android 4.0) OS would automatically create a new folder grouping the icons neatly.

The demo also showing us how the Tegra 3 works in gaming interface. The hardware could actually showing a much more realistic water effect, motion blurs and more with Tegra 3 SoC. ASUS Transformer Prime with the support of Tegra 3 and ICS OS is believed to be able to grab a lot of attention in the market, especially for those who want to find better alternative to iPad 2.

ASUS Transformer Prime, when it’s launched later in next month, will be the highest performance of all, has the longest battery with the help of the keyboard dock, and most advanced tablet in the market. Can’t wait to see what kind of review will be given to this tablet in December. It could be a nice Christmas Gift as well!

[via UberGizmo]

Ice Cream Sandwich OS Video Demo On Asus Transformer Prime
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Looking for a tough and rugged tablet computer? ASUS Tough is the answer. Yes, this is the new Android Honeycomb tablet offered by ASUS as one of the series with tough and rugged enclosure/case. The ASUS Tough is both water and dust resistant, and obviously it’s drop-resistant thanks to the rubberized bezel and strips across the back. It can still survive drops from the height of 76cm based on the numerous tests done on this tablet.

On the specification list, ASUS Tough Android tablet is quite common. Powered by 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, 1GB RAM, 7-inch touchscreen display, 16GB onboard storage, expandable via microSD card, has 5-megapixel camera, WiFi, bluetooth and GPS navigation also available. One of the plus point is the inclusion of WiMAX connectivity. If your area has been covered by this super fast wireless internet connection, you can enjoy them by using this ASUS Tough Android tablet.

Sadly, even it’s been on sale in Japan, we have no idea when this tablet would be shipped to the US of A.

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ASUS has also introduced a new All-in-One Desktop PC that is as sexy as Acer eMachines. This model is known as ET2011AUTB, which also considered as a space saving all-in-one PC with 20-inch of display. However, this version from ASUS has come with a multi-touchscreen display, supporting up to 1600 x 900 resolution.

Specification wise, this ASUS ET2011AUTB All-in-one PC is installed with 1.6GHz AMD E-350 processor, AMD A50M FCH chipset, 2GB RAM, 500GB HDD, webcam, DVD super multi drive, SD card slot and running Windows OS (either Wins 7 Home Premium SP1 or Professional SP1). ASUS ET2011AUTB will go on sale in the late August next month for $800 (WIndows 7 Home Premium) or $890 (Windows 7 Professional SP1) in Japan, after the dust has settled in Acer’s playground.

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ASUS has released a new version of motherboard called F1A75 series sporting the latest AMD A75 chipset. This F1A75 is also known as the world’s first FM socket motherboard that has come with the support of AMD CrossFireX on dual x8/x8 PCI-express slots.

ASUS F1A75 is built for gamers or overclockers because it has come with a versatile overclocking features with various kind of graphics built into the same die on the chipset. Gamers can obtained to best graphical settings as long as they’ve invest on a nice set of graphic cards.

Other than the graphical features, ASUS F1A75 has also come with an unique graphical and mouse-controlled UEFI BIOS system that looks far better than any default BIOS we have in our PC. Also, ASUS F1A75 series motherboard has been enriched with Dual Intelligent Processors 2 or DIP2 with DIGI+ VRM technology to control the power precisely, and easy to use auto tuning feature to tweak the performance of the PC without much intervention from users.

No idea when it will be rolled out and what the pricing for this motherboard.

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ASUS F1A75 Series Motherboard Released
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If you have been using both smartphone and tablet for your work, chance are, you might have thought that it would be great if you can have both of them carried in one piece where you don’t have to get a separated case or bag to touted them. ASUS offered such a solution and it’s been officially released as the name of Padfone.

Generally speaking, ASUS Padfone is a tablet with slot where you can fit in another ASUS phone for hybrid purpose. The phone will be docked at the rear side of the tablet, and it’s protected with a special case that has a small opening for the camera lens to work.

According to what we have read in our source, This ASUS Padfone is two individual devices that could be used separately. However, they can super-charged each other when docked together, like the smartphone will provide dedicated rear facing camera for the tablet for video recording. However, as far as how these two devices can super-charged each other in term of performance, we don’t have a clue yet.

ASUS haven’t released the exact specifications for both devices yet, and how they are going to work on each other is still a mystery. We do hope that the hybrid mode could at least double up the overall performance. But it should be about the phone to provide the 3G/4G functionality while the tablet itself is purely an offline-mode tablet.

As far as the screen size, ASUS Padfone tablet is having 10-inch display and the smartphone is having 4-inch display. It’s such a waste that you can’t really enjoy extra screen when they are on the hybrid-mode and the smartphone is completely hidden inside the tablet.

We will keep you posted once we have got enough information from ASUS.

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The Smartphone in Tablet – ASUS Padfone Officially Released
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Nowadays laptop is growing thinner and thinner. It’s rarely to see a new laptop popping out with fat body, except if they’ve bunch of “power” like gaming laptop similar to Alienware’s. The latest U series laptop from ASUS called U46 is also the type that has undergone a serious weightloss program. It’s thin at 27mm (although not at thin as Macbook Air, yet), 2kg only, chic-looking, stylish dressed with golden metallic case, and it’s has a good reason (especially the great specs) to make you put your money in.

According to our source, ASUS U46 U-Series laptop is going to be powered by modern stuffs like Intel’s 2nd Generation Core i3/i5/i7 processor, USB 3.0, Intel’s Huron River platform, and it will get an amazing 10-hours battery life. No full details release yet, but we will keep you up to date when more info has been released.

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ASUS U46 Laptop – Golden Metallic Case With 10-Hour Battery Life
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ASUS is trying to assist those who have laptop and HDTV placed on a separated rooms. Their new WAVI (Wireless Audio Video Interaction) is going to offers a nice solution where user can use their wireless mouse and keyboard on a separated room from their laptop in their living room with their HDTV. ASUS WAVI will become a kind of seamless bridge connection the PC and HDTV even it’s 25 meters away because it has used the 5GHz wireless band technology for optimized range. What’s cool is that WAVI HDMI streaming kit can let users control the PC on a separated room, and users can also work on the PC while streaming content to their HDTV in extend mode.

PC fun made easy on the big screen TV
The WAVI is easy to set up, with only an HDMI connection needed on each unit. Plug the transmitter end to the PC and the receiver end to a TV with an HDMI connection for wireless entertainment. Anything that can be enjoyed on the PC can now be enjoyed on the living room TV — stream high quality Blu-ray movies, play PC games lag-free, listen to music, keep up with friends on social networks like Facebook or Twitter or do some online shopping, all from the comfort of the couch.

• Model Name: WAVI
• Wireless standard: AMIMON WHDI Technology
• Antenna: 4 x 5 MIMO
• Operation Channel: 5 GHz
• Power Supply Transmitter and Receiver: 12V, 2A 24W adapters
• Power consumption: 24W
• Resolution: 1080p, 1080i , 720p, 576p, 480p
• 3D Videos: 1080p@24Hz
• Dimensions: 241 x 171 x 290mm
• Adapter and Cables:
  • AC adapter x2
  • HDMI cable x2
  • USB cable x1

No availability and pricing details for ASUS WAVI yet. However, if you are looking for an HDMI extender, Chinavasion’s version is pretty good to get the job done.

Source: TPU

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Award Winning style Designo series from ASUS have got three new IPS panel monitor spreading from 22-inch, 23-inch and 24-inch models. These new monitor is using IPS technology and VA panel display, where those three has 178-degree viewing angle, full HD resolution support, more accurate color reproduction, and better contrast ratio.

As for the 3D monitor line, it doesn’t come with either IPS or VA panel. It’s a normal 1080p 27-inch TN panel display coded as VG278H that sports the older LED-backlit technology. We are not sure if 3D technology is worth the company investment since there are some sort of declining in the demand recently. 3D panel is not as hot as it was, even people has started to aim for a Smart TV enabled HDTV instead of 3D TV.

As for now, ASUS haven’t announced the pricing details for those monitors yet.

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ASUS has just nominated themselves as the company with the world’s fastest external 3D blu-ray writer. The reason is because they have just rolled out BW-12D1S-U, which is the fastest 3D blu-ray writer with amazing design. You can immediately distinguish this product with others because it has an interesting diamond-shaped design with blue crystal button at the top. It’s very sleek, classy and luxurious.

Performance-wise, ASUS BW-12D1S-U external 3D blu-ray writer is coming with USB 3.0 interface to boost its overall transfer speed, with the details of the writing speed as follow:

• 12x for BD-R
• 8x for BD-R DL
• 6x for BD-R
• LTH2x for BD-RE
• 16x for DVD-R+R
• 8x for DVD-R/+R DL and DVD+RW
• 6x for DVD-RW
• 5x for DVD-RAM
• 40x for CD-R
• 24x for CD-RW

ASUS BW-12D1S-U external blu-ray writer is compatible with blu-ray 3d discs, Dolby EX and 5.1 channel DTS-HD. IT also coming with Optical Tuning Strategy Technology to ensure best burning quality while on the extreme 12x top speed writing mode.

As a bonus, ASUS has also throw in a bundle of software including Cyberlink Power2Go 7, PowerDVD 10, PowerBackup 2.5 and InstantBurn 5 as a support. ASUS BW-12D1S-U external 3D blu-ray writer is currently available for pre-order for €152.38 or equal to $219.

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ASUS Unveils Diamond-Shaped BW-12D1S-U External 3D Blu-ray Writer
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With the demand high definition media playback and streaming, ASUS has come up with O!Play Gallery HD Media player that support both 1080p and has USB 3.0 connectivity to ensure no lag in transferring the data.

Aside from that, ASUS O!Play Gallery HD Media Player is supporting 7.1-channel Dolby TrueHD, one-click streaming content from PC to TV, instant access to services like Netflix, Youtube and others.

To accompany the USB 3.0 port (as not everyone familiar with this technology yet), ASUS has also thrown in an eSATA connectivity. The O!Play Gallery HD Media Player itself is capable of holding one 3.5-inch SATA 6.0 Gbps HDD. You can actually fit up to 3TB of data on this media streamer.

If you are asking for pricing, it’s unfortunate because ASUS haven’t announced anything yet.

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ASUS O!Play Gallery HD Media Player Coming with 1080p and USB 3.0 Support
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ASUS showing their new 3D monitor known as VG278H in this week CeBIT 2011 trade show. What’s special in this monitor is the larger screen standard at 27-inch and compatibility with HDMI 1.4 video input. Which mean, ASUS VG278H monitor is fully compatible with 3D signal input from gadgets like your PC or PS3.

The 27-inch display is LED-backlit panel, and ASUS has equipped an unique infrared emitter that let gamers play games or watch movie without the need for cables and connectors. Though I’m not clear how this infrared emitter works, but it sounds pretty cool for wireless life.

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ASUS has just launched Nettop PC Eee Box EB1020 and EB1021, a new nettop system that uses AMD Fusion processors instead of Intel Atom CPUs.

ASUS Eee Box EB1020 nettop is using 1GHz dual core AMD C-50 processor, embedded with ADM Radeon HD 6250 graphic, 1GB DDR3 RAM (expandable to 4GB), 250GB storage and 500GB only storage.

Meanwhile, ASUS Eee Box EB1021 has a better specs. It is powered by 1.6GH dual core AMD E-350 CPU, AMD Radeon HD H310 GPU, 2GB RAM as standard (also expandable to 4GB), same 250GB HDD and 500GB storage.

Sadly, aside from the specification, we have no detail how much ASUS is going to sell these system and when it will be available.

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ASUS has just release a USB 3.0 Portable hard drive with the matching design with their Lamborghini laptop. It has the same sport car-inspired design and it’s coming with the same glossy black with Lamborghini logo.

This ASUS Lamborghini USB 3.0 portable hard drive is backward compatible with USB 2.0 interface will be able to get the superspeed transfer rate while using on the USB 3.0 interface.

ASUS Lamborghini USB 3.0 portable hard drive is going to be available in 500GB and 750GB in two color silver and black. No pricing and availability announced for now.

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Looking for a new external DVD Burner for your netbook or tablet? Check out this deal on ASUS Slim 8x External DVD Burner. Over at Newegg, you can now save up to 50% (value of $20) using this rebate form on this item.

It was listed for $39.99, but now you can get this ASUS Slim external DVD burner SDRW-08D1S-U WT for just $19.99 at Newegg.

This deal will end on January 31, 2011.

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ASUS has announced another new Eee PC netbook for the market known as Sirocco 1015PW. This Eee PC Sirocco 1015PW netbook has an interesing design with textured paint job. As for the specification, ASUS Eee PC Sirocco 1015PW netbook is coming with Intel Atom N550 1.5GHz dual core processor, 1GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB HDD, 10.1-inch screen size, WiFi And Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity.

There are no details yet on pricing or availability of ASUS Eee PC Sirocco 1015PW netbook.

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