Asus Eee Pad Slider pics, set to launch “soon”

With the bevy of announcements from Asus in their pre-COMPUTEX presscon, like the 3D tablet and the PadFone, you could forgive us of we didn’t get around to our hands on of the Eee Pad Slider sooner. Nevertheless, its here now and we liked what we saw: 10.1-inch LED IPS screen, retractable keyboard (unlike the detachable design in the Transformer) and Android 3.0 on board.

Asus has teased that the tablet is coming soon from its own Facebook account, though a firm date was never mentioned. There’s also a bit of debate of whether the Transformer would use NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor or Intel’s Atom Z670 as reported by Engadget.

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Atom powered tablets running Honeycomb spotted, we have video

It’s not a big secret that Intel got a lot of catching up to do when it comes to tablets and smartphones. Qualcomm and NVIDIA is doing brisk business when it comes to selling chips that power smartphones and tablets, and saying that there’s a pile of money to be made in that particular space is like saying the sky is blue. To that end, Intel has shown several devices here at COMPUTEX running Honeycomb and MeeGo, most likely using Atom processors.

There’s a couple of devices on display, but to be honest they weren’t really running as smooth as we hoped. Then again, Intel’s managed to do this in a short amount of time, so it’s a minor nitpick. We’ve attached a video below.

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