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Nvidia is a renowned brand when it comes to PC GPUs but for the past few years, the company started emphasizing on the burgeoning mobile devices market. Needless to say, they’ve tasted decent success there too with Tegra chips and it seems this year will be better with the launch of the world’s first quad-core [...]

  Asus has expanded its monitor lineup with the VS247H LED monitor. This 24-inch LED-backlit monitor supports full HD resolution and comes with support for HDMI interface. Additionally, the monitor comes with 50 million:1 contrast ratio along, Smart Contrast Ratio that dynamically adjusts the backlight and contrast and Splendid Video Intelligence Technology that optimizes video [...]

  Asus is gearing up to launch its next-generation Transformer soon. The Taiwanese company has put up a small video on its Facebook page that teases with copy saying “Next Transformation.” While the video is light on hard details, images in the video indicate an all metallic-body with a camera and a similar keyboard dock [...]

  Asus’ next-generation Transformer 2 will apparently be the first device to be powered Nvidia’s Kal El aka Tegra 3 platform. This piece of news comes via Fudzilla’s “multiple sources” who say Transformer’s successor will be the first one to sport the quad-core SoC before a barrage of devices come in 2012. Kal El or [...]

  Asus today announced the PA246Q ProArt Series LCD monitor in India. The 24-inch LCD monitor is targeted at professionals like graphic designers, animators. The monitor is equipped with a P-IPS panel that offers a wide color gamut, reproducing 98% of the Adobe RGB color space and sRGB support. Additionally, the monitor supports a whopping [...]

  Asus has combined a smartphone and tablet into one with the introduction of Padfone. The Taiwanese company announced Padfone earlier today at the Computex expo, which converges the phone and the tablet into one. Both the tablet as well as the smartphone stand out on their own but dock in the 4-inch smartphone behind [...]

  We’ve reviewed quite a few media players here in the past and despite them having a rich feature set, they are priced around Rs.10,000 range, making it somewhat pricey for many consumers. However, with the Asus O!Play mini you can enjoy HD videos without worrying about your budget. The O!Play mini cannot exactly be [...]

  Asus has announced BW-12D1S-U external Blu-ray writer that takes the crown to be the world’s fastest Blu-ray writer. The writer can burn Blu-ray discs at up to 12X and supports USB 3.0 interface, which makes data transmission faster. Boasting a diamond-shaped design, the writer also features Magic Cinema Technology that helps to convert 2D [...]

  Asus has kicked off CeBIT 2011 by revealing more details of the WAVI Xtion (pronounced as way-vee action) that was first showcased at CES. WAVI Xtion is a Kinect-like device that uses the same PrimeSense motion-sensing technology to bring gesture-based input and motion-sense gaming to the PC. The WAVI Xtion comprises of WAVI – [...]

  Choices of media players have increased in India in the past few years but not many have been successful to break the sub-Rs.5k barrier. Asus today manages to do it with its newly announced O!Play Mini that not only shrinks itself in size but also price. For just Rs.3,500 (plus taxes) a user will [...]

Asus was the first major company to keep a press conference before the scheduled CES Press Day and it seems they’ve managed to pull it off successfully. They’ve announced four new tablets targeting different set of users. First up is the Eee Pad MeMO. The never heard before tablet will be the smallest offering in [...]

  We won’t be seeing Asus’ tablet devices for at least a week but the Taiwanese maker is teasing us with some product shots of the Eee Pads. The pictures reveal three Eee Pads which clearly suggests that Asus will launch at least three tablets. While two devices seem to have a regular tablet form [...]

  Asus has released new video revealing more details of its Eee Pad EP121 Windows-based tablet. The 12-inch tablet will run on Windows 7 OS giving full PC functionality and feature Core i5 CPU, HDMI as well as USB port, multi-touch support, full HD playback, SD card slot, webcam, Office support and more. Asus has [...]

  Asus has expanded its O!Play media player range with the new HD2 model. Asus touts the O!Play HD2 is the world’s first media player to feature support for USB 3.0 that will allow consumers to stream high-definition content at faster speeds. O!Play HD2’s uniqueness comes from the fact that it comes with a slot [...]

  So the rumor turns out to be true. Garmin and Asus won’t offer any more co-branded handsets. However, both the companies have redefined their strategy and have confirmed that future Android devices created by Asus will offer Navigation from Garmin, which in our opinion makes sense. “We are moving from co-brand to brand cooperation, [...]