Asus EEE Pad Slider: tablet with a keyboard under the screen

Ever since tablets have started gaining popularity amongst technology users, they were seen as more portable, but less functional alternatives to netbooks and notebooks. But what if you could have the portability and lightweight that characterizes tablets and the functionality that comes with netbooks in just one device?

That is no longer a rhetorical question, giving that there is a portable computer on the market today which actually has the best of both worlds, while not sacrificing in terms of performance. The Asus Eee Pad Slider is its name and it manages to incorporate into one gadget all the things that make tablets and netbooks so great and popular.

The Slider is slim, light and portable, weighing in at 2.1 pounds and measuring a mere 0.7 inches in depth. It is also very fashionable and versatile, being a perfect travel companion for any technology enthusiast. Finally, it is functional and easy to use, having a built-in, slide-out keyboard.

Asus’s innovative device is also pretty powerful and snappy, featuring an Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor with 1 GB of RAM. The 10.1-inch IPS multi-touch display made from Corning Gorilla glass is at the same time durable and reliable, resisting to fingerprints and scratches, but also very bright and capable in terms of colors and image quality, coming with a 1280 x 800 pixels resolution.

The 10-incher should also provide you with all the apps and games that you would like to run on your gadget, being powered by the latest Android OS’s version, the 3.2 Honeycomb. In terms of battery life, things are more than satisfying as well, with this nice and functional slate being able to run for up to eight hours between charges.

Other features include a 5 MPx rear-facing camera, a 1.2 MPx front-facing one, Wireless, Bluetooth 2.1, a micro SD card reader, a mini HDMI port, a USB 2.0 port and internal storage space of 16 GB. In short, you will get pretty much all you could hope from a tablet nowadays, but also a physical, very comfortable and responsive full-sized keyboard.

While you might think that this kind of ‘’premium’’ product will also be priced premium, the quality-price ratio is actually more than fair. The Slider is therefore currently available for 479 dollars, which is in fact less than what you have to pay for some of the more conventional 10-inch tablets or mini laptops nowadays.

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