ASUS Germany has confirmed via Facebook that the company will provide Android 4.1 Jelly Bean upgrades for the Transformer Pad TF201, TF300, and TF700 tablets. The message came after a report by Dutch site TabletsMagazine.nl that the TF101, the original Transformer tablet, and the ASUS Eee Pad Slider (SL101) would not receive such an update.
The Facebook page adds that it cannot confirm at this point that the TF101 and SL101 will indeed be upgraded to Android 4.1. At the same time, it remains optimistic that such an upgrade will eventually be confirmed.
The full post as translated by Google reads as follows:
We need to deny this clear. Colleagues from the Netherlands have made no statement about TF101/SL101, but merely confirms that a Jelly Bean TF201/TF300/TF700 update be received. The converse, that is not TF101/SL101 JB update will be false and pure speculation. According to current knowledge, and users of older TF101/SL101 enjoy an Android 4.1 update will come.
ASUS is still investigating whether such an upgrade will be offered rather than having flat out rejected it. All TF101 and SL101 owners should continue to keep their fingers crossed.
Read more: ASUS Germany [via Facebook] and TabletsMagazine.nl (in Dutch) [Google translation]