Of all the pavilions of the Mobile World Congress 2011, the number 4 is like the ugly duckling of the fair. Apart from its architecture, gray, old, which discourages visitors more optimistic, it seems as if he harbored all companies that prefer to hide until the storm passes. Between the oppressive and closed stands of the dark side we find MWC Asus, like the proverbial Sunday, seems determined to go on their own, in the right lane and pass to companies that have stepped on the gas over the fair .
We say this because at the Asus booth we could try for the first time Asus Asus EeePad EeePad Slider and Transformer, two new tablets that supposedly, Taiwan plans to launch in May this year. The picture could not be more stark. Prototypes of the Mobile World Congress are the same as those taught at CES.
They have not even bothered to connect them to change the geo-location (still see Las Vegas), nor have the operating system that is supposed Honeycomb and should integrate, at least in beta. The external appearance of both devices is having had an intensive and very uncaring. Slider software and remains Froyo Transformer with a layer of very resultón Asus interface aesthetically, but whose performance is better not to enter a comment.
We prefer to assume that excessive use, both devices have seen better days. Physically, the convertible tablet concept is not bad, but many will find the thickness of the slider or the Transformer (with keyboard attached) excessive when compared with other Honeycomb that were disclosed at the fair.
The most disturbing detail, we also think it's just because of the prototypes shown is that the physical usability of both tablets is not usability, is revenge. Slider hinge was hard as a rock and had to put effort and patience to open and close. For the Transformer, the complement of keyboard continuously let go of the tablet when handling.
This case does seem more of a design problem of use. Anyway. We will not dwell further on this slap on the Taiwanese. No doubt a company that has been able to develop netbooks as exceptional as the latest Asus EeePC but precisely because of prestige, can not afford to go to a show as the Mobile World Congress unless they are to be taken seriously.
Asus makers say they plan to sell two million tablets in 2011. Well, as we continue on this plan, it must be with permission from Samsung, Motorola, LG, HTC and Acer, to name five other companies have given their all in the segment presenting new tablet with Android. 
We say this because at the Asus booth we could try for the first time Asus Asus EeePad EeePad Slider and Transformer, two new tablets that supposedly, Taiwan plans to launch in May this year. The picture could not be more stark. Prototypes of the Mobile World Congress are the same as those taught at CES.
They have not even bothered to connect them to change the geo-location (still see Las Vegas), nor have the operating system that is supposed Honeycomb and should integrate, at least in beta. The external appearance of both devices is having had an intensive and very uncaring. Slider software and remains Froyo Transformer with a layer of very resultón Asus interface aesthetically, but whose performance is better not to enter a comment.
We prefer to assume that excessive use, both devices have seen better days. Physically, the convertible tablet concept is not bad, but many will find the thickness of the slider or the Transformer (with keyboard attached) excessive when compared with other Honeycomb that were disclosed at the fair.
The most disturbing detail, we also think it's just because of the prototypes shown is that the physical usability of both tablets is not usability, is revenge. Slider hinge was hard as a rock and had to put effort and patience to open and close. For the Transformer, the complement of keyboard continuously let go of the tablet when handling.
This case does seem more of a design problem of use. Anyway. We will not dwell further on this slap on the Taiwanese. No doubt a company that has been able to develop netbooks as exceptional as the latest Asus EeePC but precisely because of prestige, can not afford to go to a show as the Mobile World Congress unless they are to be taken seriously.
Asus makers say they plan to sell two million tablets in 2011. Well, as we continue on this plan, it must be with permission from Samsung, Motorola, LG, HTC and Acer, to name five other companies have given their all in the segment presenting new tablet with Android.
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