Asus aims to ship up to 2 million tablet PCs in 2011

Asus is expected to ship between 1.5 million and 2 million tablet PCs in 2011, a spokesman said on February 11, the company's Investors Conference, according to DigiTimes. In fact, fourth quarter 2010 Investor Conference slides OEM reveal that it is aiming to achieve double digit share the platform Apple Tablet PC market this year.

ASUS already offers an Intel based 12.1-inch Eee EP121 slate running Windows 7 as of last month. The company still plans on launching three tablets of Android 3.0 (codenamed Honeycomb): a 10.1-inch Eee Pad EP101 transformer equipped with Nvidia Tegra 2 April 2011 (a netbook-tablet hybrid), a 10.1-inch Eee Pad Slider EP102 equipped with Nvidia Tegra 2 in May 2011 (the slider's name implies is a tablet with a slide-out keyboard), and 7-inch 3 G enabled Eee Pad MeMo EP71 equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon in June 2011 (a hybrid between an e-book reader and Tablet).

Asus is going to have a hard time, fighting against the many different offers of Tablet PC from this year, including the Touchpad of HP, RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPad Playbook 2, Motorola Xoom and the Flyer HTC just announced, among many others. Our recommendation is to wait until the dust settles.