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Asus's Transformer Book 13 inch tablet will finally be available for purchase in the US starting May 21st. the Asus Transformer Book TX300 features a 13.3 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel IPS display, an Intel Core i5 or Core i7 Ivy Bridge processor, and 4GB of RAM. The tablet portion of the computer houses a 128GB solid state disk. But there’s also a hard drive in the keyboard portion, which adds 320GB to 500GB of additional storage. You also get longer battery life when the tablet is docked to the keyboard, since there are batteries in both the tablet and keyboard. Asus hasn’t revealed the official price for the 13 inch Transformer Book yet, but MacMall has been taking orders for a model with a Core i7 CPU for $1430 for a while. Hopefully the official launch means more stores will carry the Transformer Book, and offer the cheaper Core i5 option. Asus is also expected to launch a 10 inch Transformer Book with a much lower price tag of around $399 in the future. [ via ]

Starting June 26th, you’ll be able to pick up a special edition Galaxy S4 which has been updated with Google Nexus series Stock android selling directly from Google. It’ll feature stock Android 4.2 software and sell for $649. The special edition phone will have an unlocked bootloader and support for T-Mobile and AT&T’s wireless networks. Google is promising that it’ll get prompt software updates, delivered directly from Google. In other words, it’ll be treated a lot like a Nexus device, but without the Nexus brand. It’s an unlocked, unsubsidized phone that you can buy directly from Google and which runs Google’s software. And unlike any Nexus device released to date, the Galaxy S4 has a removable battery and a microSD card slot.

HP's new SlateBook x2 is a 10.1 inch Android tablet with a detachable keyboard that lets you use the system like a notebook. HP is hardly the first company to launch an Android convertible tablet, the company is one of the first to announce a model with an NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor (although it looks like Toshiba could be getting ready to announce one soon as well). The Tegra 4 chip is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor with 72-core graphics. It’s the same processor that powers the NVIDA Shield gaming system, which should hit the streets in June. The HP SlateBook x2 is expected to go on sale in August for $479.99 and up. While the SlateBook x2 is the cheapest member of the x2 family, it actually has the highest-resolution screen thanks to the 10.1 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel IPS display. HP is positioning the device as both a notebook and a keyboard. While the processor and storage are in the tablet portion of the SlateBook x2, the keyboard section adds features includi