Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Tablet

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

As we mentioned at the beginning of this blog, we will review both phone and also tablet pc's that run on the Andriod Operating System, so it is time to review our first tablet, not released yet but waited for lots of tech lovers, the second on the Asus Transformer family, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

This tablet becomes the most powerful tablet computer yet, with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, 1.3GHz Quad Core, which could not be discribed as any other way than a monster about it's chip (so far the fastest tablets came with dual core chipsets). So you could imagine the power of an iPad multiplied by two about multitasking speed, application running and interface smoothness.

The tablet ships with the Honeycomb Android version and an Asus custom interface which looks pretty similar to the Samsung's TouchWiz tablet version interface. The available widgets though are not a huge piece of art but the way the user can interact with the interface arranging application, folders and these widgets is fair.

The tablet comes with some pre-installed applications and also a variaty of games like Amazon Kindle, App Backup, App Locker,Big Top THD, Bladeslinger, Google Books, File Manager, Glowball, Movie Studio, MyCloud, MyLibrary, MyNet, Netflix, Photaf Lite, Polaris Office, Press Reader, Riptide GPkShadowGun, SuperNote, WebStorage, yskk, Zen Pinball THD and Zinio.

Now, going back to its name, specifically to the "Transformer" part of it, we will move on to one of the tricks this amazingly powerful tablet has; a keyboard dock that basically transforms the tablet into an ultrabook, sized not so different to the popular ultrabooks out on the market like the Apple's MacBoor Air.

The keyboard dock is available in different colors to match the tablet and it just snaps in smoothly, the tablet itself of course can close as a normal computer lid.

The dock comes with a solid keyboard, a USB2.0 port and also a SD card reader, giving even more options in order to connect the tablet to the external world. It also has a pretty fair trackpad but since you have a USB port plugging in a mouse would not be a bad idea.

Also we must mention the camera and battery life, in which we must say its an avarage camera, but the battery life is outstanding, assuring almost twice the life of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and more than a 33% of the iPad's capacity, so it gives even more extra points to this Asus tablet.

So far we could say it is the best tablet around so far, but the tablet itself starts at $500 with the 32Gb model and the keyboard dock would take an extra $150 out of your wallet, so it might be a object of thinking before buying one set or just getting an ultrabook which might offer more power and other advantages with $200 extra.