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ASUS hit a bit of a home run earlier this year with the  Eee Pad Transformer , a relatively typical Android Honeycomb tablet with an excellent detachable keyboard dock. But what if you take the keyboard and  attach  it to the Transformer? That's basically what you've got with the  ASUS Eee Pad Slider . At it's heart, it's a 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet with the usual Tegra 2 innards. Nothing surprising there, and overall experience, software-wise is the same as the Transformer. Lightly skinned, fast. Honeycomb, right? So the big differentiator here is in the keyboard. The slider mechanism is excellent. Just stiff enough. The chicklet keys are decent enough, with just enough travel. But the overall size of the keyboard is pretty cramped. And one of the best parts of Transformer that really turned nit into an Android laptop -- the trackpad -- is missing. But you do have a full-size USB port, so you can plug in a mouse and use it if you want. Will this replace ...

The  ASUS Transformer Prime  is the first of the next generation Android tablets, packing the brand new  quad-core Tegra 3  chip and offering a boatload of performance while managing the battery life.  We've sort of fell in love with it because of it's thin and light build and the way it runs Honeycomb.  It would be the tablet to get if you're in the market for one. Something that you've heard us (well, mostly me) talk about is how well this beast handles games.   All the beef under the hood  is great for normal daily use, and it handles multimedia very nicely, but cracking open some games that really tax the system was something we had to show you.  That's where I come in.  As a child at heart, I love to spend some time playing games on my tablet, and have grown to love more than a few of the great ones developed for Android.  The Prime takes everything to a new level -- both games that have been optimized by NVIDIA, as...

Having teased it for over a year, today ASUS publicly unveiled the Padfone in its final form, at its Mobile World Congress press conference in Barcelona. In addition to the much-hyped phone-within-a-tablet functionality, ASUS has brought along a few surprising new features, including a capacitive pen which doubles as a handset. It's also expanded upon the Transformer concept, introducing a keyboard docking option for the Padfone. That's right, you can plug the phone into the tablet, then plug the tablet into the keyboard dock. Crazy stuff to be sure. Read on to find out what we thought of ASUS' ambitious three-in-one device. The Padfone's hardware has changed a little since we first saw it back in 2011. The handset itself is undeniably sleeker than what was first unveiled last year, and the tablet dock -- though a little bulkier than we'd like -- at least looks attractive and sports a bright IPS display. Most of the magic happens inside the handset itse...

The announcement of the low cost Asus MeMo tablet caused a wave of excitement when it was revealed during the Nvidia press conference at  CES 2012 , and for good reason. Asus has done the impossible, packing in a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor into a 7-inch Android 4.0 tablet, and keeping the cost down to an astounding $249. The star of this value tablet show is the Asus Memo 370T, which could be the best value entertainment tablet on the market. If there was a tablet to really take on the might of the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Asus Memo 370T has all the right qualities to be it. Inside is an Nvidia Tegra 3 chip, a fantastic 8MP camera and Ice Cream Sandwich, combining to pack enough power and features to give any tablet a run for its money. The result is a device which feels responsive, slick and never succumbs to a second of lag. The Memo 370T is a full multimedia tablet, and aimed at people who want to enjoy watching movies, and playing games on the move, but ne...