Specifications
- Operating System: Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) Platform
- Display: 10.1-inch WSVGA IPS capacitive multi touch display built with durable and scratch-resistant glass; 178° viewing angle(1280 x 800)
- Chipset: NVIDIA® Tegra™ 2 Mobile Processor
- Memory: 1GB DDR2
- Wireless: 802.11b/g/n
- Bluetooth: Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR
- Storage: 32GB eMMC Flash
- Camera: 1.2 megapixel (Front); 5.0 Megapixel (Rear)
- Speakers: SRS Sound
- Card Reader: Micro SD Card Reader
- Input / Output: 1 x Mini HDMI, 2-in-1 audio jack (head phone/mic-in jack), internal mic
- Battery Pack: 24.4 W/h Li-polymer battery (up to 9.5 hours)1
- Dimensions: 10.67" x 6.89" x 0.47" –inches (W x D x H)
- Weight: 1.5lbs
- Color: Espresso
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My Review :
First, the display unit is very nice and sharp. It is a bit glossy and it will reflect quite a bit and it's also a finger print magnet. It's also has a tackiness as you finger will not glide as easy as you might expect but these are minor quibbles. I don't mind the back shell of unit as well as some others have commented that it feels cheap. It feels fine to me.
It's major disadvantage seems to be weak wifi performance. I have a Dlink N router and none of my laptops or iphone have any performance issues around my house. The tablet frequently registers fair to poor signal strength with wifi dropping off sporadically. I've altered my router to use a different channel which seemed to help the reliability of the connection but data rate is poor overall. But with wifi being it's only lifeline, you'd expect it to perform better.
Video playback at 1080p is not great either. I've tried streaming from DLNA source and on the microSD of some 1080p movies and the frame rates are very choppy. You'll get one second of video and about 2 seconds of freezing. Playback on DVD definition video is adequate but not great. No freezing but doesn't seem very smooth. With the recent update to 3.1 Honeycomb did improve video playback, but it didn't fix the video playback problem. I will have to try some movies at 720p to see if that helps.
This is my first experience with Google Android. On some things like the browser or Google Earth the system works great with the touch interface and provides a near seamless experience. But it still needs a lot more polishing all around. When I pinch and zoom in Google Earth, it won't zoom in or out in the area I'm pinching in, just the center of the screen. You can't pinch and zoom in an email either. The browser has flash support, some sites won't recognize it as a full fledged browser and redirects you to the mobile version of their website so you can't access the flash version of their sites. When you do get a site with flash, it seems slow. The other thing that's a nuisance is that some apps prefer to run in either portrait or landscape mode and you can't switch seamlessly around from both for certain apps. It is a pain to switch to portrait mode with keyboard attached. I still have other glitches where my keyboard would disappear and become non functional until I take the tablet off and plug it back in and I've gotten a few lock ups with video playback. Switching the wifi off/on seems to put it in a quandary sometimes. Overall, 3.1 Android still feels unfinished.
3 Customer Reviews:
Purchased this for my wife for Christmas. Really like the tablet, display is great and the functionality for reading books, getting on-line to the Internet and e-mail is really good. The additional keyboard is great for e-mail also, that's what convinced me to buy this tablet. The only thing missing is sync for contacts in Outlook. I had some trouble finding it on the Internet but Asus has a utility for this! My initial reaction was great; however,the instructions are abismal and of course we can't get it to work. So I created trouble tickets with ASUS Support it can't be that big a deal, support will be able to get me through this easily. WRONG, I've had no response from them what-so-ever in a week and a half. This is totally absurd and abismal lack of any support what-so-ever!
My view at this point would be to avoid this like the plague due to lack of support from ASUS. I suppose I should have know better than to buy brand X but I really liked the additional keyboard for connectivity and e-mail...
How frustrating :-(
i'm 16 years old, so when i purchase i big ticket item like this it's a big deal. i saved my money for 3 or 4 months to buy this tablet and i haven't been disappointed. i was a little sad when i found out about the Transformer Prime, but this tablet has me covered. i'm typing this review on it right now actually. I'm using the official keyboard dock as well. No noticeable lag, listening to music, bluetooth headphones hooked up, a bunch of tabs open, etc. it's a tough old tablet too. no scratches on screen, but there are a few little nicks in the metal around the edges. i would buy the prime if i had the chance though. just because it's the latest xD
ASUS TF101 worked great for the first couple of weeks. Then it developed some looseness in the left bezel near the volume and on/off switch. One day it simply would not start. This was after I had been using it two hours earlier and done nothing to it in the interim. I tried charging it up but that did not help and the charger got quite hot. I looked on online forums and found that this was a fairly common problem with the TF101. Long pressing the power button (20 seconds or more) helped some people but not my case. Long pressing the power and down volume buttons at the same time (suggested on some forums) did reboot the Linux kernel. There was a message on the screen about booting Linux. However the system froze on the boot screen. I tried calling ASUS tech support but after being on hold for over 5 minutes I gave up. I returned the TF101 to Amazon.
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