ASUS delays Eee Keyboard again to April
updated 11:40 am EST, Tue March 2, 2010
ASUS Eee Keyboard delayed again, due in April
The ASUS Eee Keyboard will finally launch in April, according to ASUS president Jonney Shih. Mentioned in a Twitter update, the news comes from the ongoing CeBIT show in Germany and roughly at the one-year anniversary of the introduction at last year's CeBIT show. The so-called hybrid PC has been delayed from a promised June 2009 launch and then an October release for unknown reasons.
An FCC filing from October revealed the Eee Keyboard's specs, which include a 5-inch, 800x480 capacitive touchscreen. Its five-inch depth also packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM and a Broadcom video processor. It will be available in 16GB or 32GB capacities, and as an HDMI and VGA port equipped wired or UWB wireless version. The UWB version will have a 16.4-foot range and be capable of sending out 720p videos. Either will connect to external displays for a full-fledged PC experience, and rounding out the expected and unconfirmed specs is Windows XP, Wi-Fi, gigabit Ethernet and Bluetooth. The battery should last about four hours.
Last year, ASUS chairman Jerry Shen said he expects the wireless Eee Keyboard to cost in the range of $600, while the wired version would cost about $400. These prices have not been confirmed and may have changed since the original targets.
