Engadget this week reports that the Asus Eee Pad Slider tablet will indeed hit the market before the month’s end. According to an Asus representative that spoke to the site, it will ship with Google’s Android 3.2 “Honeycomb” OS and cost $475 USD for the 16 GB model, and $575 USD for the 32 GB model.

Asus officially released the specs last month, revealing a scratch-resistant 10.1-inch WXGA (1280 x 800) IPS panel. It will be viewable at angles up to 178°, supporting up to 10 simultaneous inputs and protected by Corning Gorilla Glass.

The tablet will also sport Nvidia’s dual-core Tegra 2 SoC clocked at 1 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi at 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a 1.2MP front-facing camera and a 5MP rear-facing camera. It will also feature a USB 2.0 port, a mini-HDMI output port, a microSD card reader and an audio jack for speaker output/microphone input.

As for other specs, the tablet will arrive in brown and white varieties, measure 10.75 x 7.09 x 0.68-inches and weigh just over two pounds. It will also feature a G-Sensor, light sensor, gyroscope, E-compass, GPS, SRS Sound with max bass response and a 25Wh Li-Polymer battery that will supposedly offer up to 8 hours.

On the software side, Asus said the tablet will include its Asus Launcher, MyLibrary, MyNet, MyCloud, File manager, Kindle books, Zinio Magazine, PressReader, Polaris Office and Asus sync. All of this will be easily accessed and managed using the tablet’s physical, slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Hands-on reports indicate that users must lift the display in order to expose the keyboard (rather than pushing it back toward the hinge).

SOURCE via Engadget