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ASUS Eee Phone announcement this year: budget smartphone OS still unknown

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Feb 12th 2009 No Comments

asus eee phone mockup The much-rumored ASUS Eee Phone is another device on the Garmin-ASUS roadmap, according to a company spokesperson, but it will not be making an appearance at MWC next week. Instead, the budget smartphone will get an announcement later this year, but the duo are keeping tight-lipped about what OS the handset will run. Various options are on the table – including Windows Mobile, Android and other Linux distros – but the expectation is still that Google’s open-source platform will be the likely candidate.

Garmin and ASUS announced their partnership to co-develop, brand and market handsets last week, with the news focusing primarily on the nuvifone series. These devices, which would build heavily on Garmin’s GPS expertise, would prioritize location-based services in order to distinguish themselves from the rest of the cellphone crowd.

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ASUS CEO explains price rise rumor: bigger LCDs pushing averages up

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Feb 12th 2009 No Comments

asus eee pcs 240x287 custom ASUS CEO Jerry Shen has clarified the recent rumors about notebook and Eee PC price increases. Asked during the ASUS financial conference call today whether the company would be raising notebook and netbook prices by 20-percent come March 1st, Shen told listening press and analysts that the reported increases were in fact based on the average price of the Eee PC rising in the shift from 9- to 10-inch screen sizes.

Full Shen quote after the cut

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ASUS Germany denies notebook & netbook price increases

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Feb 11th 2009 No Comments

asus eee pcs 240x287 custom After reports spread that ASUS are planning to increase notebook and netbook prices, the company has denied that any such rise is scheduled. According to Holger Schmidt, Marketing Director and spokesperson for ASUS Germany, neither the company’s Eee PC netbook nor notebook computer prices will increase.

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ASUS planning Eee PC and notebook price hikes after March 1st

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Feb 11th 2009 No Comments

asus eee pcs 240x287 custom ASUS are reportedly planning to increase prices on their notebooks and Eee PC netbook ranges, effective from March 1st, which will see costs rising by up to 20-percent. Full details of the move, which is apparently in response to both the current financial climate and the rising price of both computing components and manufacturing costs, have not been revealed, but in a worst-case scenario could see the cost of the latest Eee PC 1000HE rise from $399 to $479.

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ASUS notebooks & Eee PCs headed to Walmart?

By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 9th 2009 No Comments

asus eee pcs 240x287 custom ASUS are eyeing up US retailer Wal-Mart as the next potential point of sale for their notebooks, according to the latest rumors coming out of Taiwan, as the company explores ways in which it can break the 1m US sales barrier. That means buyers will soon be able to find ASUS notebooks and netbooks, most likely at the budget end of the spectrum, on the shelves, as ASUS attempts to push past Acer’s netbook lead.

In 2008, ASUS sold 650,000 notebooks – including Eee PC netbook models – in the US. That’s compared to Acer’s 16-percent market share, with shipments in Q4 2008 alone amounting to between 1.4 and 1.5 million notebooks and netbooks.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 6 2009

By Chris Davies on Sunday, Feb 8th 2009 No Comments

toshiba tg01 live 19 sg 194x230 custom Toshiba helped us kick off the week with the announcement of their new TG01 Windows Mobile smartphone: on paper it sounds perfect, with a high-res touchscreen, super-skinny body and all the wireless connectivity you could feasibly ask for, as well as being the first device to deliver NVIDIA’s 1GHz Snapdragon chipset. Check out our hands-on photos and video demos, as well as Toshiba’s own GUI demo, and then try and explain to me why I still can’t get as excited about the TG01 as I think I ought to be.

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ASUS Eee PC UMPC mod is best to date

By Chris Davies on Friday, Feb 6th 2009 No Comments

Sadly not a sign of ASUS’ upcoming Eee PC UMPC plans, but a very impressive DIY effort, this UMPC is based on an ASUS Eee PC 701 to which a touchscreen and new casing has been applied. That gets you a super-portable Atom based device that, at 922g, is almost half the weight of the donor Eee PC, but a whole lot more usable when on the move.

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ASUS Eee PC 1000HE early tests: no vast N280 improvement, keyboard good

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Feb 4th 2009 1 Comment

asus eee pc 1000he live 1 ASUS only announced the Eee PC 1000HE on Monday, but LaptopMag have already had a chance to play with what’s set to be the first Intel Atom N280 model on the market. Aesthetically the biggest difference between the 1000HE and its 1000H predecessor is the new VAIO/MacBook style “chiclet” keyboard, but it’s the grunt of this netbook that we’re really interested in: Intel have previously promised much improved HD video playback from the new GD40 chipset. Update: There’s no GD40 in this 1000HE, and there won’t be in any production model.

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DIY ASUS Eee PC 900HA touchscreen upgrade tutorial

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Feb 4th 2009 No Comments

Some of our most popular netbook pages here on SlashGear are those describing DIY touchscreen projects, where a touch-sensitive layer is added to the budget ultraportable’s display. There are already kits available on eBay and elsewhere offering straightforward 7- and 8.9-inch panels, but what we’ve lacked to date is a really simple tutorial – something that takes you from stock Eee PC to touchscreen marvel. Happily, courtesy of argentum, such a guide is now available.

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DIY 12-cell Eee PC battery: up to 15hrs runtime

By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 2nd 2009 No Comments

Sometimes the quest for extra battery life overcomes you, and it’s only when you take a deep breath at the end of the process that you realise what exactly you’ve achieved. In the case of Eeeuser forum member TenaciousDre, that achievement is the lumpen black barnacle on the back of his Eee PC 701, which – thanks to its 12-cells of battery goodness – power the netbook for up to 15hrs.

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