Edit from Chippy: Thorsten, a new member of the team here takes on the R2E…
To date the R2E has not had a full review done on it and since I owned an R2H largely to my satisfaction for over a year I felt I was the best person in the team to take a good look at ASUS’s latest UMPC offering.
ASUS Holland were kind enough to provide a review sample for short term testing. Today’s report will not be a full review however. I will give a short overview and some first impression to give a general picture of what this machine is about and can do. Keep a look out for the full review in the next week.
The postman delivered the R2E to my door exactly 20 minutes before I had to leave for work. It is annoying how these things go but all I had time to do was look at the contents of the package and hook up the R2E to the mains in order to charge. Inside I found,
- The R2E, 800MHz A110, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, GPS, HSDPA
- Battery (2Cell)
- Battery (4Cell)
- Charger
- Car-Charger
- USB Mini-Mouse (Logitech)
- Foldable keyboard (Targus)
- VGA-Out Cable
- GPS Mouse
- USB to USB Sync cable (very handy)
- Mini USB to USB cable
- Spare Stylus
- TV-Out cable
- Network Cable
- Cleaning Cloth
- Cable Tie
- Six CD’s/DVD’s including recovery disk and Microsoft AutoRoute2007
