ASUS EXPECTS TO SHIP 3 TO 6 MILLION TABLETS IN 2012

Asus expects to ship 3 to 6 million tablets in 2012. The company shipped around 1.8 million units in 2011. Asus chairman says that the company’s Transformer Prime tablet will be the most popular of its devices thanks to its unique detachable keyboard design. The design is patent pending and Asus plans to optimize the technology even further.


The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the successor to the popular Eee Pad Transformer. Asus also launched another tablet called Eee pad Slider in 2011. Unlike the Transformer, the Slider had a slide-out keyboard which would hide itself behind the display when you are not using it.

In 2012 Asus also plans to launch new Transformer tablets with Windows 8. The existing versions run Google Android. Windows 8 is said to be better optimized to run on touchscreen devices. It also supports ARM-based processors. Asus hopes that tablets running Windows 8 will be able to meet consumers’ data consumption and data creation needs.