The Asus Eee Note is an surprising device that blurs the lines in between an eBook reader as well as the tablet. It has the grayscale shade that creates it look like an eBook reader like the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook. But it has the high quality digitizer which lets you take records, pull, as well as perform accurate submit with a included stylus and pressure-sensitive touchscreen. The Eee Note additionally has the 2MP rear-facing camera (which takes tone photos that you can’t see upon the device itself).

The Eee Note isn’t accessible in a US nonetheless, though the folks during Netbook News managed to pick a single up in Taiwan and replaced a Chinese firmware with an English denunciation ROM. They’ve posted an unboxing and hands-on video that you can check out after a mangle.

The device has the 768 x 1024 pixel display and comes with the handful of apps together with an eReader, song player, calculator, web browser, and compendium. Because a screen doesn’t actually have an E Ink screen, it has the faster modernise rate than most standard eReaders.

But due to a low energy Marvell processor as well as a grayscale screen, you’re probably not starting to want to use a Eee Note for video or alternative some-more resource-intensive applications. It does come with the few infrequent games, though.

Asus says a tablet should be means to get between 10 as well as 13 hours of battery holdup. Netbook News says a Eee Note will expected run about $250 when it becomes accessible in a US.