Asus Transformer Prime now available for pre-order at Amazon and Best Buy

The ASUS Transformer Prime is now available for pre-order at Amazon and Best Buy. The Asus Transformer Prime is the first device on the market to be powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor and it is the follow-up to the popular Eee Pad Transformer.

At Amazon you can pre-order the 32GB version of the Transformer Prime for $492.20, or the 64GB version for $584.22 and saving you $7.79 in the process, while at Best Buy it is charging $499.99 for the 32GB tablet in both champagne and amethyst gray. Android 3.2 will be installed on the Asus Transformer Prime out of the box but upgradeable to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich once the upgrade will come out early next year.


No date is listed for shipment but according to Amazon the Asus Transformer Prime will be released on December 16th, there has been rumors that December 9th will be the specific date for release.

Update: Pre-orders are now available from B&H, GameStop, and Tiger Direct. For Canadian customers, Future Shop and NCIX are also accepting pre-orders.

Source: Best Buy, Amazon, Android Central (1)(2)

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