The Asus Eee Tablet is an electronic bloc-note that uses a 64-levels grayscale display to display black and white content at the resolution of 1024x768. Asus has built it to make the paper and pen obsolete, which is quite an ambitious goal. The device uses a pen as an input device and Asus touts that the display sensitivity is 2450 dpi, which means that we're reaching sub-pixel accuracy here. Thanks to that level of precision, Asus believes that the Eee Tablet (do not confuse it with the impressive Eee Pad!) will be an ideal note taking and sketching device. Of course, it can also display eBooks and text without a sweat.
If you are curious, the battery life is claimed to be 10 hours, and the price will be set at $199 to $299 depending on models. The Asus Eee Tablet will be commercialized in September. What do you think? In these days of multi-touch, do you miss using a pen?
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Tablet haters look away as we have yet another tablet computer to show you. However, if you were expecting a Windows 7 powered touchscreen device like the Windpad 100 or Eee Pad, both of which we just showed you, you are to be disappointed. The latest device to come from ASUS is the Eee Tablet, a device that is set to hit the market alongside the Eee Pad, and with good reason.While the Eee Pad is marketed towards those who are looking for a portable computing device that is theoretically capable of doing everything a normal computer is (thanks to Windows 7) the Eee Tablet is marketed towards an entirely different demographic.
First of all, the Eee Tablet will not feature a color screen but instead a non-backlit TFT-LCD capable of displaying 64 levels of gray. Now, you may be scratching your head wondering why you would ever want a device only capable of displaying gray ... but if you are constantly shuffling around with countless number of notebooks for any reason, this device is for you. ...
