Asus Eee Pad Transformer

ASUS EEE PAD TRANSFORMER

Asus is known for its lap-tops and net- books in the market, but also have joined the tablet revolution.  The Asus ‘Eee Pad Transformer’ is yet again another Android tablet which comes with the latest 3.2 Honeycomb OS.  It was launched at March 30^th, 2011.

This tablet is packed with hardware as you would expect from Asus, running on a 1GHz dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 10.1-inch LED Backlight multi-touch screen with resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels equipped with 5 Megapixels camera with LED flash and an additional 1.2 Megapixels front-facing camera for video chat and many more.  And you might be wondering how the name “Transformer” came into conclusion, it is because Asus also gives you the extra option of buying a connectable QWERTY keyboard base which gives you the feeling of using a light net-book.  Not only that, it is also used as a charging dock for tablet, providing approximately 6.5 hrs of charge.  The tablet itself has a battery life of 9.5 hrs; together they give you impressive total of 16 hrs battery life.

Software:

The Transformer originally ran a modified version of Android 3.1, but has since been updated to Android 3.2. The physical keys (home, back, and menu) have been skinned to resemble the standard Android phone keys.

The tablet is bundled with MyNet, MyLibrary, MyCloud, Press Reader, MyDesktop and Polaris Office 3, for full document editing.  More updates have been realised since the launch date, this updated the system with extra widgets for MyZine, which is a desktop widget shop, for weather, email, calendar, gallery, etc. It also added MyCloud, a remote desktop app.

The browsing experience is same as the Motorola Xoom as I mentioned in the previous blog, because these are both Android tablets.

The Transformer has a brilliant display screen, it is delivered by 10.1-inch IPS.  The display does not disappoint, well saturated pictures maintains its vibrancy even as you tilt the tablet to test out Asus’ promised 178-degree viewing angles. Some brightness is lost at extreme angles, but it's a true IPS panel, of that there is no doubt.

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Specs:

Price:

•          $400 Wi-Fi only for 16 GB ( approx. $500 with keyboard )
•      $600 Wi-Fi only for 32 GB ( approx. $700 with keyboard )

Operating system

• Android 3.2 Honeycomb

Power

• 9.5 hours; 24.4 Wh Li-polymer battery, 16 hours with dock CPU 1 GHz dual-core nVidia Tegra 2

Storage capacity

•  Flash memory 
• 16 or 32 GB, microSD slot (dock full size SD slot), unlimited ASU WebStorage

Memory

• 1 GB

Display

• 1280×800 px (aspect ratio 16:10), 10.1 in (26 cm) diagonal, 160 PPI

Graphics

• GeForce ULP

Input

• Multi-touch screen
• dock keyboard + touchpad
• compass
• GPS receiver
• Ambient light sensors
• 3-axis accelerometer
• 3-axis gyroscope

Camera 

• Back: 5 MP AF camera
• Front:1.3 MP front-facing (for video calls) 
  

Connectivity

• Bluetooth 2.1
• mini HDMI 1.3a
• Dock 2x USB 2.0
• DLNA
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n

Dimensions

• 10.6 in (270 mm) (h)
• 6.9 in (180 mm) (w) 
• 0.51 in (13 mm) (d)
• Weight  (680 g)