I’m going to come clean to you guys/girls. I have had tablets for the past 2-3 years and for the first few years, I really never put them to use. I found them to be cumbersome, slow, and there just wasn’t enough reason to use them. Frankly I could do it all on my phone just as well, with a smaller screen of course. About a year ago I had a Transformer Prime come in. With Nvidia’s Tegra 3 quad core CPU I was intrigued and the optional keyboard was icing on the cake. I decided to REALLY give it a try and see what I thought. A year later I want to talk a little about my experience.
Product Name: Asus Transformer Prime
Review Sample Provided by: Nvidia
Written by: Wes
Pictures by: Wes
For those of you who might be looking in here for one of our traditional reviews, this article is more of an opinion piece talking about my experience over the past year. We won’t be going into any benchmarks.
Specifications
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Display |
10.1" LED Backlit screen with Super IPS+ (1280 x 800) 10 finger multi-touch, Corning® Gorilla® Glass |
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Operating System |
Android™ 3.2 Honeycomb (Android™ 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgradable) |
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Platform |
NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 Quad-core CPU |
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Memory |
1 GB |
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Storage |
32GB / 64GB EMMC + one year unlimited ASUS WebStorage |
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Wireless |
802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR |
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Camera |
1.2MP (front), 8MP Auto focus (rear) with flash / F2.4 large aperture |
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Interface |
PAD: 2-in-1 Audio Jack (Headphone / Mic-in); 1× micro HDMI port 1 × Micro SD Card Reader; 1 × Internal Microphone; 1 × Stereo Speaker Mobile Dock: 1 × USB2.0 port ; 1 × SD Card Reader |
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Sensor |
G-Sensor, Light Sensor, Gyroscope, E-compass, GPS |
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Flash Support |
Yes |
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Multi-tasking |
Yes |
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Special APP |
ASUS launcher, @Vibe Music, ASUS WebStorage, MyLibrary, MyNet, MyCloud, File manager, ASUS sync, SuperNote, App Locker, App Backup, TegraZone, Polaris Office |
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Battery |
12 hours; 25Wh Li-polymer Battery 18 hours pad with dock ; 25Wh(pad) + 22Wh(docking) Li-polymer Battery |
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Size/Weight |
263 × 180.8 × 8.3mm ; 586g (pad only) / 263 × 180.8 × 8~10.4mm ; 537g. (dock only) |
