Asus shows off four tablets at Cebit

Four tablet computers from computer manufacturer Asus were on display at this week's Cebit trade show in Hannover, Germany.

The Asus tablets were all announced at the CES show in January in Las Vegas, but the products were available for show at the German event.

A Windows 7 model, the EEE Slate EP-121, has a 12.1in screen and an Intel Core i5 processor, which is faster and more powerful than the chips used in similar tablet computers. It will be available in early April and will cost €899 (£763).

Compared with most tablet computers, the EEE Note EA-800 is cut-down, with only a black-and-white screen and controlled by a stylus. It's designed to combine the functions of an ebook reader with those of a simple organiser.

It uses an LCD screen unlike the e-ink used by most ebook reader products and will cost €199 (£168) when it goes on sale by the middle of this year.

The EEE Slider and EEE Transformer tablets, both with 10.1in screens, will be on sale in mid-April, and the EEE Memo will follow later in the year. These three will run Google's Android 3 operating system.

See our video above for hands-on footage of the EP-121 Slate and the EEE Note EA-800, and click here to read more news from Cebit 2011.

At the show, Asus was also showing off its 'concept product' Iris, which it describes as an 'adaptive device'. It takes the form of a single small screen that can be slotted into several other devices to make it into a watch, a card game and several other devices.

The screen (pictured below) has been produced through a collaboration with a team from the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology. It is flexible, consisting of an LCD panel sewn onto a fibre backing.