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| ASUS Transformer TF300 T-B1-BL 10.1-Inch 32 GB Tablet (Blue) |
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Product Description
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From the Manufacturer
ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 Series
The Best of Both Worlds For Every Side of You
A tablet? A notebook? Get the best of both worlds for every side of you with ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 Series.
Work, Play and Live with the ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 Series that's designed to reflect your individuality and personal style. The innovative design with the mobile docking station not only seamlessly provides the user with a keyboard, touchpad and expandability options, but also extends the battery life to an amazing 15 hours1 for all-day computing and productivity.
The ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 model also features the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 1.2MP front camera for video conferencing and an 8MP rear camera with a large F2.2 aperture, 5-element lens allows for high quality images along with 1080p HD video recording. Together with supreme audio courtesy of ASUS SonicMaster technology, it makes for an ideal mobile web surfing and gaming platform.
Key Features
10.1-inch WXGA IPS capacitive pressure-sensing multi touch display for brilliant HD entertainment and intuitive navigation. 1780 viewing angle (1280 x 800)
Powered by NVIDIA Tegra 3 Quad-core processor for best web experience with up to two times faster browsing, hardware accelerated Flash, and console-quality gaming
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS with Adobe Flash support and over 500,000 downloadable applications on the Android Market.2
32GB flash storage, micro SD card slot and micro HDMI port for easy sharing & expandability.
Front (1.2MP) and rear (8MP) cameras for face-to-face video chats and on-the-go video and picture capturing.
Optional Docking station with QWERTY keyboard adds additional 5 hours of battery life, to instantly turn the Transformer into PC mode with up to 15 hours of battery life. 1
Ultra-slim and light (.39" thin and 1.4lbs light) with stylish swirl design.
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1 Actual battery life may vary based on product settings, usage patterns and environmental conditions.
2 Android is a trademark of Google Inc.Adobe Flash update required from Android Market.
Product Description
10.1" WXGA IPS Touch Panel / Nvidia Tegra 3 (1.2Ghz) / 1GB DDR3 / Nvidia Tegra 3 Graphics / 32GB Flash Memory / Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) / 802.11BGN / 1.2MP Front Facing Camera / 8MP Rear Camera / Bluetooth 3.0 / Polymer 22W/h (10 Hour Battery Life) / G-Sensor / E-Compass / GPS / Light Sensor / Gyroscope / 1YR North American Warranty.Ports: 1x HDMI – Micro, 1x Docking, Audio: 1x 1/8" (3.5 mm) Headphone/Microphone, 2x Integrated Stereo Speakers, 1x Integrated Microphone, Flash Media Slot: 1x Micro SD.What's in the box: ASUS 32GB Transformer Pad TF300T 10.1- Inch Tablet (Blue), Power Supply and 1-Year Warranty.What’s in the box: ASUS 32GB Transformer Pad TF300T 10.1-Inch Tablet (Blue), Power Supply and 1-Year Warranty.
Comment by Customer
By Mikec717
UPDATE 3: Please check each individual section in my "PRIOR REVIEW" for updates on those particular items. I will do one more small update later.
UPDATE 2: This is just a short update just to let everyone that the replacement TF300 has for all extensive purposes been a home run. This is the tablet I wanted to love and it keeps giving me reasons to love it more. I will do a more in depth update later in the next few days but for now just let me say BUY THIS TABLET. I'm very happy I just got a defective unit the first time around. No strike 2 for ASUS. I'll leave my prior review in place just in case someone gets a tab that was doing the same thing.
UPDATE 1: Just to keep those interested in buying up to date. ASUS responded very quickly to my review (see comments) and after a few emails back and forth they also think I have a faulty tablet. For those interested I'll post some excerpts in the comments, I do go into a bit more detail on some of the errors.
PRIOR REVIEW:
Well, I'll get right to it. I want to LOVE this tablet. I did a lot of research and knew this was it for me. I received my tablet and started putting it through the paces. All was well for about a week, then it started rebooting over and over again. First it was rebooting after every song on Pandora. So I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. Ok, problem solved. Not quite. Angry Birds Space froze, tablet rebooted. Now I'm getting suspicious. Pandora made it reboot. EVERYTHING made it reboot. Keep in mind all this was yesterday that it got all kooky. I am on the latest firmware. I did a cold boot (power off, unplugged, power button+volume down) and was hoping for the best. Nope. Getting my google play on and then silence. Look at the tablet and it's rebooting. So I start opening apps to test again. I open Dolpin Browser, Gallery, Super Note, and My Library, all but one come PREINSTALLED on the tablet. I go to open Pandora and don't even get to touch the icon before it's rebooting again. So I want to run that scenario, open the same apps, it's fine. I have the tab in the keyboard dock and I go to open Netflix. The screen goes to portrait then back to landscape and nothing happens. So I say screw it and put Google play back on again. I let it play over night, it did not restart, but the music did pause. Fine. I hit play in the morning and like 15 seconds in it restarts. I am returning this tablet and hoping it's just a defective unit. From the reviews it sounds it is. But I will make some comments on how it was when it did work.
Display
People say it's not as nice as the new IPAD. Well it's not, IPAD is a premium unit sold at a premium price. I'm not gonna compare a Hyundai to a high end Mercedes. Is a super duper HD screen really worth THAT much more? Not for me. Compare the Transformer Infinity to the IPAD. That said, the screen is great. Reading books is no problem, my pictures look awesome, games look very detailed. LITTLE bit of bleeding on the bottom (landscape) but as others have stated, only on black back grounds and really it doesn't take away from anything. It's not burn your eyes out bright as the Prime, but it's plenty bright. At home I usually keep it at 50%, in my office I might max it out, but in my defense 3 of my 4 walls are windows really so I get a lot of sunlight in here. It's plenty bright. I sort of think we've all been pampered and spoiled by gorgeous screens and I can honestly say this is one is just that. It's just not super duper IPS HDx400. Stop, it's great, plenty good, especially for the price. I've thrown some HD video at it looks awesome. And I'm a little snobby when it comes to these things, I'm happy with the display. It's also (when it works) very responsive out of box.
UPDATE: Not much to add to this. I still feel it's plenty bright for the average person. Resolution is fine, HD video looks great. HD games and apps look great. Non-HD apps are a little pixelated but that's not a display issue, that's an android issue because (and apple does do this better) not every app is made to be displayed on tablets. Great, solid screen that is very responsive. Really my only gripe is a gripe about ALL tablets is that they are finger print magnets. I was given a stylus that I thought I would never use, but I gotta admit that I love the thing. Since I use it so much it sort of solved the finger print issue.
Performance
Meh, can't comment on this until I get the replacement unit. It started off pretty snappy and just fell apart. Graphic intensive games were nothing to it. No lag at all. My bigger problems were the simple things which is kind of odd. I do love the option of low consumption, balanced, and performance. You can change between them quickly and there is a definite difference in battery life (and performance). I don't need 5 cores to do most things, i'm usually on balanced and it (when it works) was plenty fast. I think my unit is defective so I'll hold off on this part.
UPDATE: Now I can comment on this. GREAT tablet. This will probably be one of the most important sections for most so I'll try to be thorough. I'll break this up into subcategories to make it easy.
MULTITASKING UPDATE: This beast is amazing. Let me take you through a normal day. I get to the office and throw on streaming music or put a movie for back ground noise. I gotta prep for some meetings on Evernote, review some documents on Google Drive. Meeting time. We have a lot of internal documents in pdf, no problem with ezPDF reader (two bucks, buy it) where I can pull it up and ohhh look at that, yes I am annotating the pdf file with my own notes, text, drawings and pictures. I work at a large facility, someone in the meeting just asked about a certain area of our property. it's Maps time! I remove my tablet from the keyboard dock (which always is met by a look of surprise, then "oh how cool" then questions about the tablet) and scroll smoothly from side to side and zoom in and out with no problem (AS LONG AS YOU HAVE FAST WIFI!!!). Another question and I have to look at a website for a quick answer (like I said in the internet browsing, it's not that bad, just not a desktop experience on the speed) and now they ask to see some pictures, up comes the gallery where my pictures render quickly (performance mode is your friend, ladies and gents). Another question that I know can be better explained with a youtube video and back to my notes. Is Thursday good for a follow up meeting? Let me pull up my calendar....how were your numbers last year for this....let me open the file manager and pull up my excel sheets. I do not close any of this stuff down and only once has maps frozen and shut down. I do this almost every day to that extent and do not close apps between all this bouncing around. It handles it with out breaking a sweat. This machine is a multitasker. Quad-core? Yes please!
PERFORMANCE GAMES UPDATE: I did not purchase this tablet to play games. That said, holy jesus I love playing games on this thing. Your normal Android game (i.e. angry birds, Fruit Ninja, Ninja Chicken, TnT, Temple Run, Brave Temple Run, TripleTown (I saw the cutesy graphics and was going to bail, 3 minutes later I'm buying this insanely addictive game) all look and run beautiful. The graphic intensive games that should show off the processor might does just that. Max Payne, NOVA 3, Six Guns, ShadowGun and Biohazard 4 (korean only release, I don't know what the hell is going on in it) all look great, run smooth, and do it all with a high frame rate. I did have Shadow Gun shut down on me when I connected it to my 50' panasonic along to my PS3 controller, but that was after I played it for about half an hour with no problems, turned it off, and went to play it again. That was yesterday and I haven't tried again. I'm getting used to playing the higher end games on the tablet, it was a little weird at first with out a controller. I'm still a little clunky at it but I'm guessing I just need to practice. Overall I'd say the tablet has exceeded my expectations on the game front.
Internet Browsing
At times it's brilliant, but it's buggy. (right as I wrote that my tablet restarted...again with pandora) Anyways, not the smoothest web experience. But i think that will get better. My personal experience is that Chrome Beta seems to be the most unstable, it shuts down a lot. Dolphin seems pretty good as does the stock browser. I honestly have not put in enough time browsing the web to make a fair judgement on this.
UPDATE: I think this Internet Browsing might be the weakest thing about Android (not this tablet, it's really more of a software problem) It's not as good as desktop browsing, but it's a pretty new OS so there's going to be a lot of improvement on this front. It's not awful by any means, but it's just not that normal desktop experience. Some sites load just fine, no problem at all. Others that are flash heavy or have videos tend to take a bit too long to load. Nothing unbearable mind you, but definitely has room for improvement. But I might not have the right browser. I mainly use the stock browser. Haven't used Dolphin HD much, the chrome browser (beta) was god awful and unstable, and Firefox just came out and I have not tried that out yet.
Sound
Not bad, not oh my god amazing, but not bad. I watched Iron Man 2 on netflix with my Onkyo system hooked up to it, it did surround sound pretty damn well actually. Didn't really expect that. With out assistance I would say the sound is above average. It's actually damn loud with Ninja Chicken.
UPDATE: I use it in my office all the time, no problem hearing music or movies over the stupidly
ASUS Transformer TF300 T-B1-BL 10.1-Inch 32 GB Tablet (Blue)
The item is amazing really like the sensation of the item in my arms, not much distinction with the primary actually even though the back is nasty it still seems like high quality. Love along with its black making it seem very fantastic at different periods like in the black and mild periods. The display lighting is actually fantastic no gripes what so ever, don't seem to know why people really hassle about the display its better than most in the marketplace. Price is fantastic for this item, you are not losing out on any thing like the big costly ones. Would definitely suggest it!!!!
Some of the best factors about this tablet:
*It's able to run Display programs
*Full key pad dock
*customizability (Apple doesn't want you playing with anything except maybe where you put the applications on the screen)
*The capability to create on most photo printers using Search engines Cloudprint (Apple airprint allows you create on certain photo printers, but the record is short)
*Comes with Polaris Workplace (like Ms 'office' and suitable with office and succeed and energy point)
*Much more suitable with a PC
*You can slightly management your PC using this product (really cool!)
*Way more applications than I believed there would be with all the buzz about Apple's App Shop having more - I have an iPhone and so I know there are gazillions of options there, but if I didn't know better, I wouldn't have observed the distinction.
* You can use your PC to obtain applications straight to the TF300 without linking it or anything.
*There's a gadget you can use to destroy all the operating applications to preserve battery power pack.
