Asus Padfone and MeeGo-Based Eee PC Expand Choices

The product announcements are coming winged and stormy from the trade show floor at Computex in Taipei, including a virtual sea of tablets. There are a number of interesting contenders in there, to glucinium sure, but two original offerings from Asus–my favorite hardware maker–assume ME as being particularly rich with possibilities.

First, of course, is the widely anticipated Padfone, a convergent device that combines Android smartphone and tablet reckoner, giving consumers a choice of screen sizes for each plac or computing undertaking without having to headache about data transfer hassles or multiple SIM cards.

With the Padfone, the smartphone docks inside the tablet. While IT's there, it can recharge from the pad of paper's larger battery and the tablet can make utilize of the smartphone's 3G internet connectedness. With dual interfaces for both the pad and call up, layout is automatically adjusted for all activities, including videoconferencing, Web browsing and emailing.

I'm always a bulky fan of more choices, merely for mobile workers connected the go, this seems like an specially clever idea. If only sharing data were this easy among all the else devices in our lives.

Powered past MeeGo

Asus's new Eee Pad MeMO 3D is other intriguing Android tablet pick, but as a winnow of Linux and acceptive author software–and not so much a rooter of tablets–I'm flatbottom much excited about the MeeGo-supported Eee PC X101 netbook computer.

With a alary design that's evenhanded 17.6mm thick and weighs a mere 950g, the Eee Personal computer X101 is easily transportable and nonetheless packs considerable computing power into its svelte design. The device sports a 10.1-inch screen out, QWERTY keyboard and the Intel Atom N435 central processing unit, along with 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi.

The Linux-based MeeGo operating system, interim, includes a lot of built-in productivity tools and offers full support for a wide range of social networking services. Perhaps best of all is that the gimmick will cost $199.

'Instant On' Technology

An alternative X101H model, incidentally, offers all the same features as the Eee PC X101 but comes with a hybrid Winchester drive and choice of Window 7 or MeeGo. With Asus's "Instant Connected" applied science, the device can resume a saved sitting in just two seconds from standby mode, the company says.

Either way, just as the Padfone offers a choice of form factors to use in whatever given situation, so Asus's new netbooks offering a choice of operative systems–let alone all the tractability and user authorization that go hand in hand with Linux.

More choice and more flexibility make for a winning combination, I believe. Business users will want to check these devices out.