Asus Tegra 3 Tablet at $249
Dressed in a trademark short-sleeve black shirt, Jen-Hsun noted that tablets have already been morphing to meet different, specialized, needs.
Sony’s unique Tablet P, featuring a folding design with dual 5.5-inch screens, has found a core following in Japan. Designers like pen-input tablets, such as the Lenovo IdeaPad. And in China, seven-inch tablets are the rage.
That’s likely to be a key market for a new Tegra 3-based seven-incher announced at the press conference by Asus CEO Jerry Shen, who also came to the stage. He said the Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, the Asus ME370T, will sell for $249, which evoked a burst of applause from the crowd.