Anticipated ASUS Transformer Prime tablet to face delays

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Best Buy customers in the US who preordered the highly anticipated quad core Honeycomb tablet are reportedly receiving news that for some reason shipments have been "back-ordered," and delayed by one to two weeks which makes it impossible to have the devices in time for Christmas. Customers who ordered throug Amazon got even more unexpected news that their orders got "inadvertently canceled." although they did get a $10 gift certificate for their dissapointment.

Engadget reached out to ASUS who gave them the following respons-

We started filling the pipelines this past week and will continue to do so on an almost daily basis this coming week, although any shipments to the partners after Wednesday will probably mean availability the following week based on logistics. But we expect the inventory pipeline to be full by the first of the year. The orders shipped this past week and starting this week will cover the pre-order allocations and then start allowing online or in-store availability.

No announcement or intent to bring the ASUS Transformer Prime to Canada has yet been made by ASUS/