The Taiwanese company has identified only to realize in the past year at least 350 thousand units the first Android-tablet with a quad processor.

According to industry players, ASUS told contract manufacturers to assemble up to the end of the year, 350-400 thousand Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Novelty may cover one-fifth of all sales of tablet production company in 2011. Not be ruled out for the year ASUS will be one of the most successful players on the tablet arena: Apple leads, Motorola forced to cut production 75% Xoom even without looking at reducing its price, trade volume is not yet known Samsung, Research In Motion has only recently attracted the attention of 300-dollar discount on all models of BlackBerry PlayBook, and bright erupted dumping HP TouchPad is already completely collapsed.

Transformer Prime aims mainly to the price aspect, being one of the few tablets that really competitive iPad on aggregate price and features: 32 GB model will cost $ 500.

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime, equipped with 10.1-inch Super IPS + with a resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels, maximum brightness of 600 nits and the protective glass Corning Gorilla Glass, enclosed in a housing 8.3-mm thick and 586-g mass. The aluminum plate is the same habit, which boast ultrabuki ASUS Zenbook.

Among other specifications Transformer Prime: 1 GB of RAM, communication GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, 1.2-megapixel front camera, 8 megapixel camera with autofocus, flash, aperture F/2.4, CMOS sensor with rear lighting and supports 1080p-video, miniHDMI-jack, microSD-slot, audio technology SonicMaster, 3,5-mm jack. Autonomy declared within 12 hours, and connect the docking station that turns your tablet into the laptop, will add another 6 hours of work without the charger.

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime initially receive a mobile operating system Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb, but before the year is promised to go to track Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.