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I think Asus is turning them out too quickly and using crappy parts with crappy assembly and ripping everyone off. They should cost half of what Asus is charging for these things.

The Prime suffers from WiFi and GPS signal problems. They’re discontinuing the Prime when the TF701 comes out.

I’t actually not that bad. I had this tablet too, but returned it for its hardware issues. There are a lot of great applications for Android.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that the first dock I bought had a non-working space bar.

Yes, it’s way more convenient to have the tablet in the dock and just close it. Also, using bluetooth peripherals will deplete battery life, while using the dock will increase battery life.

As cool as the concept is for the Transformer line, I wouldn’t recommend buying one. Read my post below this one.

I knew this would happen…

Lastly, I ended up returning my final unit and giving up on the Transformer Pad because of the light bleed and that one with the faulty charger. I just didn’t want to deal with it anymore. It’s extremely frustrating to buy something and have to exchange it because it’s defective out of the box. Buying Apple products has many benefits over most other manufacturers, but one relevant one is their quality control and commitment to pleasing their customers. If you buy an iPad with light bleed, you can just go to the Apple store and get another without being questioned too much. Chances are pretty good that you’ll get a replacement with no light bleed (it’s happened to me). But I went through three or four Transformer Pads and viewed display units at different retailers and all of them had the same problem, just in different areas around the display.

Yes but the dock adds 5 hours of battery life to it, the touchpad is actually pretty nice and works great, you get a USB port and SDHC/SDXC port, and it really turns it into an Android notebook. I think it’s totally worth it. $150 for a 5 hour battery extender and you could store a bunch of movies on a USB or SD card from your PC and use it on the tablet.

I had one of these (well… three). Here was my experience:

The majority of these devices have (or had… at least the batch I got mine from) issues with light bleeding from the bezel. Some (including in-store display models) were worse than others. It’s mostly noticeable on models in which the light bleeds from the bottom where the black bar is, and whenever you watch a movie in letterbox or with a lot of dark scenes.

Battery life was pretty great.

One of the units I had had a faulty charger port. After just two days of using it, it wouldn’t charge or recognize that it was plugged in to the dock unless the dock was plugged in. I tested the dock on a display device at Office Depot which proved that it was in fact the tablet itself.

The plastic case is actually kind of nice. I prefer it over the swirly, shiny “metal” backing on the TF200.

When the tablet is attached to the dock and the unit is closed, it’s like one of the clamshell Eee PC’s, which is great.

The touchpad is better than the ones I’ve used on most laptops.

Asus’ built-in file manager lets you access the USB, Micro SD, and SDXC storage and transfer files to and from those storage devices. It’s awesome. But…

You can’t move apps to the SD card or Micro SD card. This is a limitation of Android 4.0, and it sucks if you use Rdio or Spotify and want to have your offline tracks on an SD card. I suggest you buy the 32GB model if you want one of these.

Chrome is really slow and buggy on the Transformer Pad and Prime. Google is aware of the issue and is working on it.

I experienced frequent lock-ups, and several “Application not responding” prompts a day.

Android 4.0 is awesome on a tablet. Yeah, there aren’t tons of apps for the resolution, but there are some good ones, and desktop versions of websites work wonderfully.

I wouldn’t buy any Transformer tablet without the dock.

Using a Transformer Pad with the dock is a really great experience except for the hanging apps and backlight bleeding. I wanted to own one so bad that despite the frustration of getting that one tablet with the defective charger, and about three afterward with awful light bleed, I kept trying. Asus has pretty bad quality control, and I don’t know if it’s the Tegra 3 processor or Asus’ software layer, but something isn’t meshing here and it’s extremely buggy. There is a hack out there to get full Flash support, and it’s awesome. It plays Hulu (the website) video as smooth as any modern laptop.

I wish we could edit posts, because I’m sure I’ll think of more after I click “post”.

Once Microsoft Security Essentials came out, I completely stopped bothering with any other security software. I’m not sure why anyone would use anything else while Microsoft offers a native security suite that sits quietly in your notification area.

No…

I think they look like d-bags because of the faux gang signs they throw in the photos, the faces they make, the makeup, the way their hair is done, etc.

And yeah, the fact that they work with the guy and see him often, probably know that he found the phone (unless FedEx now delivers to cruise ships) yet they smile and throw signs and don’t do anything about it doesn’t help.

I’m not redundant. I just said the same thing in two different ways. (emoticon)

But the only reason you’d need the three dots is if the apps use the legacy menu.

As for accessing the settings menu, there is no settings menu on the ICS homescreen. For system settings, it’s in the notification pull-down.

Not the AT&T model. But, that just changed yesterday with the HEX hack.

*used my upgrade

PS – I looked at a total of about 10 Galaxy Nexus’ because the first one I owned showed good blacks and grays, then I sold it and used up my grade shortly after to get one for $200. I went through about 10 before giving up and switching to AT&T for the One X.

Can someone tell me why Quadrant scores matter and how you installed Crysis on your phone?

Of course he does

- School’s over
- Single parent
- Lives 3000 miles away from friends and family

I believe I meet the criteria.

Not the commentors, but just to expand on the idea of the internet not being the disconnected entity it is often referred to as.

This is something I would have really liked to get into when I called in to the podcast, but how much can you say in a few minutes on a tightly scheduled program?

There are a lot more people here than there used to be. I think, in human society in general, the ratio between a-holes and good people is a pretty big one (like, 20:5 a-holes to good people, respectively) so when you take that percentage of the human population, slice out the techie population and hide them behind the figurative wall that the internet provides for people, you get a higher concentration of a-holes and d-bags.

The only reason Engadget commentors are so bad is because the site is so popular and the commentors are able to post anonymously. This site is growing in popularity very quickly and also allows forum users and commentors to be anonymous, so it’s now experiencing the same problems.

I’m interested to see what comes out of Apple now that Steve Jobs isn’t around to oversee everything.