The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime is an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet computer

Tablet computer

A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...

 and has been announced by Asus in November 2011. Speculations predicted that the device will be released on 7 December. It was in fact officially announced on 9 November 2011, and scheduled for release December 2011 in the USA and December 5th 2011 in Canada as shown by pre-order shipping dates.

Features

The Eee Pad is a tablet computer

Tablet computer

A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...

 with a 10.1" IPS multi-touch

Multi-touch

In computing, multi-touch refers to a touch sensing surface's ability to recognize the presence of two or more points of contact with the surface...

 screen

Touchscreen

A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus...

 with a resolution of 1280x800 and an Nvidia

NVIDIA

Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...

 Tegra 3 system-on-a-chip

System-on-a-chip

A system on a chip or system on chip is an integrated circuit that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single chip. It may contain digital, analog, mixed-signal, and often radio-frequency functions—all on a single chip substrate...

 (SoC). It has a 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...

 module.

Docking keyboard

The optional docking keyboard features full QWERTY keys, trackpad, one USB 2.0 ports and one SD

Secure Digital

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 card reader as well as an additional battery that increases overall battery life from 12 hours to 18 hours.

Software

The Transformer Prime will be loaded with Android 3.2 Honeycomb and will be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It will be the first tablet to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

See also

• ASUS Eee Pad Slider (EP102)
• Comparison of tablet computers
• Android 4.0
  Android version history
  The version history of the Android operating system began with the release of Android 1.0 in September 2008. Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, and has seen a number of updates since its original release. These updates to the base operating...
  
  
• Android Tablets

External links

• Eee Pad Transformer Prime at ASUS.com
• ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Review (AnandTech)
• ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Review (Engadget)