ASUS retools Eee Keyboard, swaps in capacitive touchscreen

November 4th, 2009 admin
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At this point, we’re beginning to wonder if we’ll ever see ASUS’ Eee Keyboard on store shelves. Heck, we’ve even see it drop by the all-knowing FCC, yet the company has apparently delayed the official debut once more. The kids over at Register Hardware were able to sit down with a tweaked version of the device, which is now slated to ship in early 2010. What’s different? ASUS threw out the old resistive touchscreen that we’d played with before and swapped in a capacitive panel like the one in SE’s XPERIA X10 , Apple’s iPhone and Nokia’s X6 . Engineers assert that touch response was far better with capacitive, and at least in this application, it simply made more sense. We’re also given a good look at the external WiFi / UWB antenna that we spotted in …


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