R50a goes through FCC stage.

Posted on 29 July 2008 by Chippy

As JKK says, this could mean that the device is moving towards availability in the U.S.

I haven’t heard anything from ASUS in Germany yet but I’ve sent them a message to see if we can have a status update. Remember that the R50 is the smaller of the two tablets that ASUS will be launching and it will run on the Silverthorne processor with SSD and 3G included. I wonder if we’ll see any Eee-influenced change of branding or pricing? I doubt it.

See the specifications and previous news pages for the R70 and R50 by clicking on the images below.

R70 and R50 from ASUS.

1 Comments For This Post

Al says:
July 29th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
The smaller version would be cool if they incorporated the Sharp Willcom D4 form factor so that it would have slider and touch type keyboard. I think these are definately niche products as thus far no UMPC without a keyboard that is touch type has made any real sales in the mainstream market.

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