ASUS Eee Pad Transformer shipments surpass 400,000 units per month

By on Jul 18, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Tablets July 18, 2011

Shipments of Asustek’s popular Eee Pad Transformer tablet have surpassed 400,000 units per month according to a report from DigiTimes. The industry watcher cites anonymous sources at touchscreen display panel suppliers in claiming shipments are expected to grow even further in the third quarter, possibly reaching up to 500,000 units per month. ASUS reportedly hopes to ship between 4 million and 5 million tablets across all of its models during the second half of 2011, and almost 3 million units could be Transformers if DigiTimes’ report is accurate. Analysts at J.P. Morgan Chase claimed last month that sales were slowing and ASUS’ convertible tablet was overstocked in some channels, but this continued high production volume would certainly suggest that the opposite is in fact the case. The Eee Pad Transformer is a 10.1-inch Android 3.1 Honeycomb tablet with a dual-core Tegra 2 processor that ships with a full notebook-sized keyboard dock. The slate can be used on its own or docked so that its function more closely resembles that of a laptop computer.

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  • Anonymous

    Great! So, they’re on pace to sell as many Transformers in a year (4.8 million) as Apple sells iPads in a weak quarter (4.7 million). Ouch. 

    • Anonymous

      This is the second most selling tablet, even with shipments hurt. I think we realize the iPad is still selling a lot more, but do you seriously have to take away this big victory from Asus? It’s quite a feat that so far no other manufactures come close to excluding Apple.

    • Anonymous

      You know what I find odd? Even the most rabid of anti-Apple folk seem capable of acknowledging Apple’s contribution to the industry and can give them credit from time to time.

      But the rabid pro-Apple folk (like this guy) seem to just despise any opposition to Apple’s dominance and take every single opportunity to disparage the competition.

      You really are completely lacking in grace and class.

      • Dario69

        You are kidding, right? Rabid anti-Apple folks are just as eager to take shots at Apple’s weaknesses and almost never submit to giving them credit for anything other than being an evil empire.  They are in the same league as rabid anti-Android folks as far as I am concerned.  To say one is better is just another attempt to take pot shots at the other side.  Both camps lack grace and class.  It is like democrats and republicans.  Both parties think they are classier than the other.  They aren’t.   

      • Anonymous

        Really? Most that post here act like Apple is a company who started in 2007, copied everything from Google (despite Android being released later), and claim that Apple changed nothing. Apparently phones prior to 2007 are identical to today’s phones.

      • http://www.droiddoes.com/ iNorm

        ANNDROID originally looked just like blackberrys OS until 2007 when they stole iOSes look.

    • fillyo

      So does that justify your purchase?  You have no self esteem and buy products to be accepted by others.  When I buy something, I buy it because I like it, and it meets my needs.  

    • Anonymous

      You can’t extrapolate SALES data based on SHIPMENT. It’s possibly FAR less than what you are quoting.

      • Anonymous

        For the most part, yes. Samsung and Blackberry are good examples. But if I recall, the ASUS tablet was sold out everywhere when it first launched, as they started very small. Not the same as shipping a huge amount of tablets and saying “whoo! look how many we shipped!” right off the bat.

        As far as Apple, they sell directly and have been out-of-stock for most of the year, so shipments do equal sales with a small margin of error.

    • IceBeam

      Hey kid, engage brain: Apple has had more than a years head start with their. Come back in a year and they will have been left in the dust on the tablet as well (their phones long since been left behind)

      • Anonymous

        hmm, From the half empty side of your pronouncement:   the tablet market has existed from before Apple produced an iPad.   It’s not a headstart, it’s ASUS being asleep at the product wheel.

        Apple is making 50% of the entire smartphone market profit selling just 2 phone models.  If that is ‘left in the dust’ then  I hope I can do the same someday.

        You equate success with ‘Units.’  Apple sees success with ‘Profits.’   In this game, money talks.

      • Anonymous

        It’s true, Android users are happier that they aren’t gouged on each unit like Apple owners are, and that economy of scale means lower prices on some models and nor just more money Steve Jobs skinny jeans.

    • Booboolala2000

      That still counts for a 25% take away from Apple. And that ain’t small potatoes silly queen.

      • Anonymous

        Where are you figuring the 25% from?

    • Anonymous

      How is making money an ouch? You silly bloggers you.. Who in the hell expected Asus to outsell Apple? Just because the Hyundai Genesis doesn’t out sell an Accord doesn’t mean it’s not a great car.

      • Anonymous

        I’m not a big fan of Hyundai, they look nice but the quality is atrocious. 

      • Anonymous

        your comment is precisely why the iPad sells so much.. hyundai has better  quality than ford, chevy, dodge, mercedes, bmw, even honda and toyota.. they are 3rd or 4th out of every manufacturer.. and that genesis will smoke most cars on the road

      • Anonymous

        Um, I have experience with a 2010 Hyundai Sonata. The plastic on the outside is falling apart, and it keeps on having to be brought in to be repaired. Pretty close to invoking the lemon law.

        Hyundai does not have better quality than Mercedes. No. Way. 

        It looks nice, drives okay, but everything feels… cheap. The doors have no heft, the plastic is thin.

      • Anonymous

        My buddy has problems with his 09 CLS 550.. I never said it was perfect.. On avg. Hyundai’s will have less problems and perform better than comparable cars on other brands nowadays..

        Edit: With cars quality normally means early on problems.. I don’t mean the luxury is better even though pretty much every automobile publication said a fully decked out hyundai is up there with the base model luxury cars i.e. bmw, mercedes, lexus

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mustafa-Kemal/100002768052471 Mustafa Kemal

      You sound scared, Perspectively.  If a relatively small company like Asus without much advertising can sell that many with their first tablet, imagine what is going to happen with it’s Tegra 3 powered Transformer 2 is released.  Can you can goodbye iPad market share?

  • Anonymous

    Numerous reports have the transformer being returned at approximately a 70% rate. No one wants a crappy tablet.  true story™©®

    • al bundles

      Choke on your own scrotum, liar.  

    • TooMuchNoise

       Got a link? Or just conjecturing like a mad monkey with poo in hand?

    • dantagonist

      Numerous reports have Scroat being called out on making up statistics 98.976% of the time.
      No one wants your crappy comments. true story™©®

    • Dario69

      This actually looks like the better of all the Android tabs out there.  I am almost tempted to get one.  Sammy’s new Tab looks good but the lock down on the SD card turns me off.  Android is about being open and separating itself from the competition.  This just makes it another closed system like the iPad.  I have enough of that already with my iPad.

      If there is a high return rate I bet it is more to do with the OS than the hardware.  Honeycomb is just too sluggish.  A premature OS that makes the Android phone OS looks stellar.

    • Joe

      Really?  Hmmm… I sold my iPad I and bought the Transformer and keyboard AND still had money left over.

      Guess what?  It does Flash!

      • http://www.droiddoes.com/ iNorm

        Well because it’s a cheap POS.

    • Eric

      Scroat, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

    • Anonymous

      really? I have seen your posts all over and you a just the biggest douche. I like apple too, but somebody just needs to shoot you in the face, you really are ignorant. Just because you like apple doesnt mean you need to post hundreds of negative comments against the other os’s or oems, really just shut up.

      • Anonymous

        Awwwwwww baby want his bawtoe?

      • Anonymous

        GTFO!, nobody wants you here, your just trolling around, pissing everyone off, get a real life, cuz your just a douche bag -true story… bitch

  • Anonymous

    It’s no secret really, build them cheap and costumers will come. All these OEMs still fail to understand that the way Android won the mobile war was cause Apple’s $200+ model couldn’t compete with Free. OEMs need to focus on cheap tablets until the platform grows legs then focus on the high end models when developers start to adopt the platform. People will not shell $800 for android tablet too see if they like it, Motorola can tell you that.

    • Anonymous

      Android is winning, but hasn’t won the mobile war.

      Especially since “mobile” includes mobile devices like tablets and media players.

  • Anonymous

    LINE EM UP!!!! KNOCK EM DOWN!!!! Apple has just filed a lawsuit against asus!! They have apparently violated 7 strong pantents that apple holds. Time to pay the tax man!! Asus will be gone in two years.  true story™©®

    • fillyo

      You could be that fag I saw sitting at corner bakery, who had an Iphone, next to his Ipad, while he was on his MacBook.  –true story.

      • Anonymous

        Don’t hate apple. It wasn’t their fault ur crack whore sister pawned ur
        iPod.  true story™©®

      • Anonymous

        don’t hate android. 

  • Anonymous

    I wonder how long before Apple will sue them…

    • programmer168@hotmail.com

      If they couldn’t beat the competitor,  their lawyer will come to rescue

  • Anonymous

    “that ships with a full notebook-sized keyboard dock”

    Pretty sure mine didn’t come with this. It’s an extra $150 :-(

    • Anonymous

      it does? never mind then, this appeals to me none, thats the only thing that set it apart from all the other androids. It does have more specs for your money though

  • http://www.bignerdblog.com BigNerd

    Is the pictured model a European one?

    The US version doesn’t have that semicircle button-looking thing… and ours is a more brown/copper color.

    I like my Transformer, Asus was smart at pricing it $100 less than an iPad and by adding netbook functionality with that keyboard dock (not to mention 6-7 more hours of battery life). Now if only they can fix the quality control issues like the light bleed and dock battery drain.

  • Joe

    I bought an iPad last year, and while worked very well, the fact that I could not change the default web browser annoyed me.

    Then the Asus Transformer came out and I bought it.  Works much faster then the iPad (of course it has a faster processor, so no surprise there).  What surprised me was the number of website that I go to the have flash that I could not bring up on the iPad.

    Another surprise was that I could Craigslist the iPad and have enough money to cover the cost of the Transformer and keyboard, and have money left over.

    Bottom line – The Asus Transformer is the best tablet out there! (IMHO :) )

    • Anonymous

      The iPad 2′s processor is faster…

    • Anonymous

      probably true, in your world.   Flash is not  a requirement for most business users, and most media consumers don’t neet it either.

      PLUG FOR ASUS from an IPAD OWNER FOLLOWS:

      The big win for Android 3.1 and ASUS is the bluetooth mouse driver.

      I see the ASUS (played with one last week as part of a security hardening project) as being the form factor for the classic ‘road warrior’   I don’t see flash is the driver for big sales of this device… i see the ability to attach a bluetooth mouse to it.  With that and Virtual desktopping (Enterprise Citrix), most sales forces will see this as the competitor to a MacBook Air, and iPad, as this will be an easy transition from a laptop, and make available all the tablety whizzy stuff.   All your windows apps hosted securely at the corporate site (private cloud), and all your touchy pointy stuff locally.

      So, for corporate deployments, I see the ASUS+keyboard+mouse better than the PlayBook, the Tab, and the HP tablet (for now… HP should get their heads screwed on and see the corporate market delivery like functionality soon).

  • Anonymous

    Well deserved feat…. The Asus Transformer is still the most versatile, expandable and full feautred honeycomb tablet/netbook out there.  Even compared to the Xoom and the Galaxy tab 10.1. The low price does not hurt either.

  • http://twitter.com/chestervolt03 Crazy Volt

    Now you can purchase this ASUS Eee Pad Transformer tablet from Amazon here:

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FCAHRME4VEZJ6VHOAK2GIJ2ENY Elaine Morin

    I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

  • Anonymous

    I’ve owned my Transformer/keyboard dock since the day it was released and I love it!  I use it as a tablet at home and as a netbook at work.  The fact that I can add microSD storage, use usb thumbdrives, external hard drives, and a mouse with this tablet is awesome.  iPads are nice, no doubt, but the Transformer is fantastic!

  • InCaseYouWereWonderin…

    Add mine to the tally.  Just bought this bad ass lil’ puppy and couldn’t be happier.  I’m absolutely amazed at how this swims circles around the ipad.  I gave my ipad to my wife.  Now she wants the transformer.   

    • Anonymous

      So what does it do better?

      • Anonymous

        I think that’s obvious.

      • http://www.droiddoes.com/ iNorm

        Shows flash ads better

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/VCBEBTYM2XLKT7WBH4OWJ5QUZ4 commonsenseplease

    Android Tablets are like chess…you learn, grow and adapt, and find many many more uses for it.  An iPad is…like an iPhone only bigger, and it’s more like checkers.  They’re easy to figure out, and don’t scale to anything more useful.

    • Anonymous

      Really? There’s some pretty advanced apps available for the iPad, like FileMaker Go.

      Just because the UI appears simplistic doesn’t mean it’s not powerful. 

      • http://www.droiddoes.com/ iNorm

        Or Splashtop, but DROID doesn’t have that yet.

      • Anonymous

        Splashtop has been on Android for a while now. We also have quite a few free and paid alternatives to splashtop.

  • zps

    does anyone know if the light bleed issues have been fixed?

  • HeadsUp

    OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sick of these Apple FANBOY vs. Android FANBOY comments in every article, not only on BGR but everywhere. If you like something, then go out and buy it. It is just a phone/tablet/computer for god sakes!!! Everybody has different tastes, just because you do not like something dosent mean that it is inferior.

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