ASUS will make more from mobile devices than PCs by end of 2017

[HEXUS]

In recent quarterly results it shipped 4.3 million laptops and half a million desktops PCs.

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[jimbouk]

Personally wouldn't by another tablet from them. picked up the Asus MeMO Pad 7 and it's loaded with bloatware that you can't remove. Not the nicest from a hardware perspective but you can live with that due to the price, but forcing all their 'wonderful' apps onto you, as well as adding links to '100 free games' when you update the system software is inexcusable.

Been tempted by their Windows laptop/convertible offerings for a while now though, aside from the recent bios tricks you know you can un-install everything back to the basics.

[nar53]

I recently got the Zen Phone 2 and I love it. Its a massive upgrade from my Moto G but it too comes with a mass of bloatware!

[crossy]

Personally wouldn't by another tablet from them. picked up the Asus MeMO Pad 7 and it's loaded with bloatware that you can't remove. Not the nicest from a hardware perspective but you can live with that due to the price, but forcing all their 'wonderful' apps onto you, as well as adding links to '100 free games' when you update the system software is inexcusable.

I recently got the Zen Phone 2 and I love it. Its a massive upgrade from my Moto G but it too comes with a mass of bloatware!

Root and then use Titanium to zap those unwanted apps? Actually I find Samsung's app bloat pretty intrusive, but I've not got around to zapping it all. My Lenovo Yoga2 tablet came with "value add" like Skype etc, and while you can uninstall it easily (without root - good one Lenovo), unfortunately every OS update/patch puts it all back on again (annoying, but I can see why).

ZenPhone2 looks pretty interesting - I've seen prices around £220-260 for a unit with 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage, running Android L. Which, by my naive standards, is into "bargain" territory. Unfortunately there's the usual questions about software support and how good that Atom is against it's ARM competition? Then again, my (Atom powered) Yoga2 tablet makes the (Exynos/ARM powered) Samsung competition look like they're running in slowmo.

EDIT: Actually looks like the reviewer over at XDA agrees about unnecessary junk, and the (linked to) review also reveals news both good and bad. On balance I think I'll pass on the ZP2 and maybe wait for the price of other headliners to drop... or just stick with the G3 I have now.

[KillerCoati]

Because we need more mobile devices as there isn't enough choice competition out there atm :S Even massive mobile focused companies such as HTC are having to expand because they're struggling as its become such a crowded market even now, let alone in 2017!