The Eee Pad is a tablet with a 10.1-inch IPS multitouch display with a resolution of 1280 × 800 and an NVIDIA Tegra 2 system-on-chip
An optional home keyboard was available at launch. It has full QWERTY buttons, a touchpad, two USB 2.0 ports and an SD card reader, as well as an additional battery that extends the total battery life from 9.5 to 16 hours.
USB ports support all types of USB storage and NTFS media with files over 4 GB. The SD card slot also supports NTFS media.[6]
The devices marketed in Canada, called Canadian Bi Lingual (CBIL), have a slightly modified keyboard layout, in addition to supporting accented characters. The Shift and Enter keys have been reduced to two additional keys.
Software
The transformer originally ran on a modified version of Android 3.1 Honeycomb, but has since been updated to Android 4.0.3. The navigation buttons on the screen (Start, Back, menu) have been removed to resemble the standard buttons for Android phones.
The tablet comes with MyNet, MyLibrary, MyCloud, press Reader, MyDesktop and Polaris Office 3 for full editing of documents.
The first software update was released by Asus on April 16, 2011. This is what the system has with additional widgets for MyZine, a desktop widgets store for weather, email, calendar, gallery, etc. aktualisiert.es has also added MyCloud, a remote desktop application.
In early June 2011, Android 3.1 came out to transform it. It had general usage and speed updates and added the ability to scale compatible widgets, added a large scrollbar to the browser and scrolled the screen of the currently open app, which allowed many apps to switch quickly.
On July 16, 2011, another live software update for the transformation was released. In addition to the updates for the connectivity modules of the device, the home screen has been changed, various applications have been updated, the auto-rotation function has been disabled when the tablet is anchored, and the Nvidia TegraZone market has been added with applications and games specific to Tegra 2 units.
On August 2, 2011, the transformer received updates for Android 3.2 and various minor changes. On August 23, 2011, the transformer received another update that added compatibility for the Netflix app.
