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Hot on the heels of HTC confirming a Jelly Bean upgrade for select handsets, ASUS released a statement (pasted after the break) assuring tablet owners that all of the company’s new tablets, at least, will be upgraded to Android 4.1. So far, the outfit is committing to updating the Transformer Prime, along with the Transformer Pads TF300 and TF700. Though ASUS is careful to say it’s considering other devices, it’s still not promising to upgrade the original Eee Pad Transformer or Eee Pad Slider. No word, exactly, on when users will get a taste of Project Butter and Google Now, except that it should happen within “the coming months.” Hopefully, of course, that’s just an outside estimate: after all, ASUS isn’t known for saddling its tablets with heavily customized skins, which can bog down the upgrade cycle.

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ASUS has confirmed pricing and availability for its latest dockable Android tablet, the Eee Pad Transformer Infinity TF700, set to sit at the top of the range come July. Announced back at Mobile World Congress, the Infinity TF700 will kick off at $499 for the 32GB model when it drops in the week of July 16, though that won’t get you the docking keyboard slice with its integrated battery.

If you want that keyboard/battery, it’ll be an extra $149. ASUS will also offer a 64GB TF700, priced at $599. Either way you get a 10.1-inch 1920 x 1200 IPS capacitive touchscreen display, running at 600 nits of brightness, paired with 1GB of RAM and a battery good – on its own – for 8.5hrs of runtime. The keyboard battery throws an extra 5hrs or so on top.

The WiFi-only model will will go on sale first uses NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 chipset, though ASUS has also been showing off Snapdragon S4 versions with LTE integration. That looks to be a limit on quadcore processors with built-in 4G.

WiFI b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 and an 8-megapixel main camera – with a 2-megapixel camera up front -round out the key specs. More details on the Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 in our full hands-on.

ASUS Transformer Infinity TF700 hits US mid-July from $499 is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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