{"id":36496,"date":"2011-10-20T08:38:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T06:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=36496"},"modified":"2011-10-20T08:39:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T06:39:15","slug":"asus-unveils-transformer-prime-tablet-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/36496-asus-unveils-transformer-prime-tablet-pc.html","title":{"rendered":"Asus unveils Transformer prime tablet PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talking at the AsiaD conference, chairman of <a title=\"Asus\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/363482-Asustek\">Asus<\/a> <a title=\"Jonney Shih\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/372344-Jonney-Shih\">Jonney Shih<\/a> uncovered the company\u2019s next generation tablet PC, the Transformer Prime.<\/p>\n<p>Shih confirmed that the Transformer Prime will feature a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset, a 10-inch display, mini-HDMI port, a 14.5 hour battery life, and an SD card slot.<\/p>\n<p>Like the original Asus Transformer, the new model is compatible with a docking station which functions as a keyboard, extends battery life and offers more connectivity options.<\/p>\n<p>Shih also mentioned that the tablet is just 8.3mm thick, though he did not specify whether this was with or without the docking station.<\/p>\n<p>The Transformer Prime will probably ship with the <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> Honeycomb operating system, although Shih did confirm that the newer Ice Cream Sandwich update to Android would be available by the end of the year, or \u201cperhaps earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no confirmed shipping date for the Transformer Prime, though Shih expects more news surrounding the tablet to surface at the official reveal of the device on 9 November.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Engadget tech Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/10\/19\/asus-jonney-shih-unveils-transformer-2-at-asiad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asus chairman unveils the new Transformer Prime Android tablet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,5434,5880,947,5884,5882,3838],"class_list":["post-36496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-android-ice-cream-sandwich","tag-asiad","tag-asus","tag-asus-tramsformer-prime","tag-jonney-shih","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}