Before you start blaming Asus’ desicion to redesign its Eee Keyboard recently as the culprit why its release is delayed again, stop. According to Digitimes, that is not the reason why the Eee Keyboard won’t be reaching the market in time for the holiday season but will have to wait until 2010.

The reason? Well, the original version of the Eee Keyboard didn’t make it through some wireless testing regulation.

The good news is – once it comes out in 2010, perhaps during CES 2010 we might be looking at a better Eee Keyboard. That’s the bottom line of it all. What’s the point of rushing a gadget when you know that it will just conk out on users easily?

So, let’s all start looking forward to 2010 then.

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Just when does Asus actually plans to release its innovative Eee Keyboard. It was supposed to come out last month right? or this month? But anyway, it looks like the Eee Keyboard’s market debut is delayed anew as Asus has just redesigned it a bit.

Register Hardware was able to get a hands-on the redesigned keyboard and guess what? What use to be a resistive 5-inch touchscreen display is now replaced with a capacitive panel. This is similar to what the iPhone and other touch-screen handsets apparently use and which Asus’ product design head Ken Wang said has a better touch responsiveness.

In addition, the  Eee Keyboard now also supports gesture control similar to the recently released Apple Magic Mouse. It can launch a web browser just by swiping to fingers on its screen. Sleek!

Asus also plans to release both non-metallic and metallic versions of the Eee Keyboard. When? That remains to be answered.

If you’re still waiting for Asus innovative product called the Eee Keyboard, well the wait may soon be over as the FCC filing by Asus has already been accomplished. So, it is now up to the FCC guys to judge whether U.S. consumers are worthy enough of getting this new product.

And since it has been too long now and in case you forgot already, the Eee Keyboard is nice little device in the form of, well yeah keyboard which packs in some computing powers.

Based on the FCC filing for the Eee Keyboard, the device will have the following specs – 5-inch 800×400 touch panel with stylus, Windows XP, Intel Atom CPU, Broadcomm chip, 1GB of on-board memory, 16GB or 32 GB of SSD, Wi-Fi, Ethernet and Bluetooth.

Just like a netbook or nettop, the Eee Keyboard is also battery powered with up to four hours of battery life. It also has HDMI port, 3 USB ports and 2 audio jacks. It was said to be capable of sending out 720p videos TV display.

Here’s the FCC filing for the Eee Keyboard.

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Asus is set to launch three major products in October, Digitimes reports. Two of these products are the Eee Box and Eee Top all-in-one PC. Ops! Didn’t Asus just made the Eee Box available recently? Well, not really because this new Eee Box will be powered by Nvidia ION platform. This Eee Box will get a price tag of NT$10,000. While the new Eee Top will be priced around $668.

But of course the more exciting product that Asus is also set to launch come October is the highly anticipated Eee Keyboard. If you would recall, Asus has been touting this innovative product since time immemorial. And finally, no hopefull we could finally get our hands on it.

The Asus Eee Keyboard will go for something around $400-$500. For that price you’ll get a fully-functional keyboard, a PC and a wireless connection hub housed into one keyboad body.

Now, we are really excited.  Or are we really?

Asus has been showing off one of its innovative product, the Eee Keyboard for quite some time now and yet it has not really indicated as to when it will go public. Until now, as TechDigest received confirmation from Asus marketing representative John Swatton that the said product will start hitting store shelves sometime in August.

As to what it can really do, the report says that the Eee Keyboard with wireless HDMI feature can both be used as a self-sufficient computer-in-a-keyboard gadge which you can also use as a portable and controllable media center.

If that sounds still vague or too technical, think of it as portable media player that can stream HD video from its 32GB SSD storage to your TV, LCD monitor or any display panel. But aside from that, you can also use the keyboard’s 5-inch monitor to do some mobile email viewing and other online tasks.

At the ongoing CES, ASUS has successfully stolen  media’s attention not only with the announcement of the Eee PC T91h and Eee PC T101H but moreso by a concept machine – the Eee Keyboard.

Mind you, this is not your ordinary PC keyboard but rather a more innovative one that features full functioning computer parts inside,  a 5-inch screen on the side, a full keyboard, and various connection ports at the back. In short, the Eee PC Keyboard is a practically an Eee PC trapped inside a keyboard’s body.

Sounds fun right? Wait till you get down into the specs of the Eee PC Keyboard:

• 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor
• 1GB RAM
• 16GB/32GB SSD
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
• HDMI support
• USB 2.0 ports, VGA ports, HDMI ports etc.
• Windows XP Home Edition

We really have no idea what came over the minds of the Asus tech guys, but we, like everyone else who have seen the device at the CES certainly loves the idea/concept.

The Eee Keyboard is expected to be released six months from now. We wonder how much Asus will sell this wonderful device.

Via Gizmodo