1 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:19,000 well it's the big Windows RT Windows 8 launch day I have two Windows RT devices 2 00:00:14,879 --> 00:00:21,519 remember RT it looks like Windows 8 it 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:27,760 behaves a lot like Windows 8 but it is not quite Windows 8 because Windows RT 4 00:00:24,439 --> 00:00:31,000 is the first operating system that we've 5 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,600 seen from Microsoft ready in every way 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:38,840 for ARM processors the first device we're going to have a look at is the 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:42,079 ASUS Vivo tab RT so this is ASUS's take 8 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:44,160 on the whole Windows RT Paradigm we have 9 00:00:42,079 --> 00:00:48,680 it in the dark color here so there's also more of a champagne color available 10 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:52,399 you can see based on the box it's apparently quite slim once we get it 11 00:00:50,399 --> 00:00:56,600 opened we'll obviously be able to validate that unlike most tablets 12 00:00:54,920 --> 00:01:01,480 Windows RT actually takes up a significant amount of the storage space 13 00:00:59,519 --> 00:01:05,479 that is available on the device so there's a little warning here that the 14 00:01:03,199 --> 00:01:08,880 available user capacity of a 32 gig skew will actually be significantly less than 15 00:01:07,119 --> 00:01:14,720 that about half I think that's a little bit pessimistic but they're probably 16 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:17,119 planning for the worst case scenario so 17 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:22,320 this is a full-fledged Windows OS guys um TF 600t is the part number it comes 18 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:26,040 with a T30 that's a teger 3 processor there won't be a 16 gig version 19 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:30,320 available at all because as you guys can imagine if it was completely full of the 20 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:35,720 OS and there's no room for apps that wouldn't be very helpful all Windows RT 21 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:38,399 devices are shipping with a full office 22 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:43,720 implementation that includes word excel PowerPoint and one note one note being 23 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:49,360 of particular interest because as a note taking platform tablets are obviously 24 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:54,320 less than ideal with what we've seen in the past so far with the exception being 25 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:59,560 maybe something like a Galaxy Note 10.1 that has that uh integrated 26 00:01:57,079 --> 00:02:02,039 stylus okay so there's the hold on hold on let's let's get everything let's get 27 00:02:00,759 --> 00:02:07,960 everything out first so there's the device itself it's very thin uh here's 28 00:02:05,119 --> 00:02:12,560 the documentation the microfiber cloth for cleaning that is included uh what 29 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:17,800 else we got here warranty card warranty card again includes a 30 00:02:15,879 --> 00:02:21,920 users guide as well that gives you some basic oh actually this is kind of 31 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:25,760 interesting so there's some gestures left Edge swipe right Edge swipe top 32 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:30,879 Edge swipe and finger slides scroll up and down zoom out zoom in tap and hold 33 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:35,160 double tap neat explains the charm bar so we can we can show some of this uh 34 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:38,800 some of this after okay users manual okay that's enough for 35 00:02:36,879 --> 00:02:45,400 documentation it includes what the heck is that oh neat 36 00:02:42,319 --> 00:02:48,040 okay so you can adapt uh ASUS's uh 37 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:53,159 charging connector right somewhere where the heck is the charging connector right 38 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:55,920 here to a USB port that's awesome actually especially given the form 39 00:02:54,440 --> 00:03:00,920 factor of the device and because this is a Windows-based device you will have 40 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:05,319 full access there's your ASUS charging connector your ASUS charger you will 41 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:09,799 have full access to the file system that is operating under your tablet OS which 42 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:15,440 is not something that we've seen in the past on Android without third party app 43 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:16,760 support and on iOS at all so in terms of 44 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:24,640 thinness I'm going to go ahead I'm going to do it I'm going to do it I'm going to do the old iPhone 4 thickness comparison 45 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:30,159 as well as the old iPhone 4 size comparison so this is a 10-in tablet um 46 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:34,599 it is extremely light actually it's maybe not as not actually yeah no this 47 00:03:32,799 --> 00:03:39,959 is this is extremely light it's very comparable to something like a Galaxy 48 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:41,560 Tab 10.1 which is uh again a very very 49 00:03:39,959 --> 00:03:48,080 light tablet let's see what ASUS has to say for themselves so Tegra 3 quad core 50 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:51,280 processor uh super IPS plus ultra bright 51 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:53,200 178° viewing angle panel 8 megapixel 52 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:57,680 rear camera that's a 2 megapixel front camera right there Sonic Master Crystal 53 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:02,799 Pure sound reproduction and the battery life at lasts up to 9 hours NFC is on 54 00:04:00,959 --> 00:04:06,840 board so you can tap and share without boundaries we're waiting for it to boot 55 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:13,560 up right now there's only one actual button built into uh Windows RT devices 56 00:04:09,799 --> 00:04:15,640 and that is the Windows button right 57 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:20,639 here on the back you can see they've gone with a hybrid metal and plastic 58 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:24,360 finish so the metal part is actually here I should just uh what is this this 59 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:27,960 is an FCC thing maybe I'll leave that one on but this one just covers up the 60 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:31,800 powered by Windows RT um 61 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:36,160 etching on the really wow that's really hard to remove 62 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:40,240 so there's a brushed metal backing and then up at the top and I can pretty much 63 00:04:38,039 --> 00:04:44,840 guarantee you that the antennas are hidden under that uh that housing is a 64 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:49,320 plastic backing that actually has a really nice grippiness to 65 00:04:46,759 --> 00:04:53,880 it okay that came off so the powered by Windows RT is not actually etched onto 66 00:04:51,479 --> 00:04:58,320 there it's just the ASUS logo and then that brush finish the speakers are built 67 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:02,680 into what I would say is kind of a funny location because because this tablet as 68 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:07,280 you can tell from the way that it's set up the way that this button is here and 69 00:05:05,039 --> 00:05:10,800 the webcam is here is meant to be used in portrait mode and the way that I 70 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:15,880 would most naturally use a tablet in portrait mode is holding it like this 71 00:05:13,479 --> 00:05:18,160 which would perfectly exactly cover up both of the speakers so those are 72 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:23,840 probably going to be a little bit muffled I would have preferred to see them up here or something like that but 73 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,440 uh I don't know if you pull it like this while you're watching a movie or you 74 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:31,240 hold it a little bit higher you might be able to get away with uh with not 75 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:34,639 covering those up so here's the setup process at any rate you can accept the 76 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:38,560 terms of the Ula after of course carefully reading 77 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:43,000 them just like any device that you set up that you of course carefully read 78 00:05:40,919 --> 00:05:49,600 here's a few Basics a pick a color scheme Sweet let's go pink and then PC 79 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:53,280 name will be uh 80 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,280 Vivo input is very 81 00:05:53,479 --> 00:05:59,199 Snappy okay uh we can pick a wireless 82 00:05:57,639 --> 00:06:04,800 access point you know what our wireless give me a set guys cuz our wireless isn't working correctly 83 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:09,280 here all right so we got connected to Wi-Fi we're just going to use express 84 00:06:06,639 --> 00:06:13,520 settings to set up and you they're going to want you to use a Microsoft account 85 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:16,400 to sign in okay so I'll I'll enter this for this next part I want to show you 86 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:20,479 guys a couple of the different keyboard layouts that are available on Windows RT 87 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:23,759 so this is sort of your classic tablet layout they haven't committed any 88 00:06:21,919 --> 00:06:28,280 cardinal sins here they've added smiley faces which is actually probably more 89 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:32,240 useful than you'd think um I really like the way they've implemented the number 90 00:06:29,759 --> 00:06:34,800 pad because as much as it's you know you can have a row of numbers up here and 91 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:40,120 it's convenient to not to press an additional button if you're entering more than one number at a time I I love 92 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:45,080 this and being able to reach it with just one hand uh they seem to have made 93 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:49,039 pretty good choices for all of the main symbols here so you got your dash and 94 00:06:46,639 --> 00:06:53,759 your underscore available your asterisk um at sign hashtags all that 95 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:57,680 good stuff and then they've also got this layout this layout I'm not quite 96 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:01,800 sure what to think about I think I wish that these bottom parts were were 97 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:06,000 smaller to go along with the smaller letters and maybe make the letters a bit 98 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:10,680 bigger um but even with my small hands I can reach all of them and some I've seen 99 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:14,039 some people complain about this number pad in the middle because it does take 100 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:18,360 away from how much space is available on the screen but as someone who actually 101 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:23,120 inputs numbers on a regular basis I don't think I mind it so let's just go 102 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:28,319 ahead and we'll enter a username and we'll be right back there's a little guide thing it 103 00:07:26,639 --> 00:07:32,960 says uh while we're getting your system ready here's a little guide so you swipe 104 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:37,280 in from any Edge so swiping in from the right accesses the charms bar which is 105 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:42,560 your search your Windows key your settings or some other handy stuff there 106 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:48,599 oh okay so it actually wants me to do it how does it think I'm oriented here 107 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,599 swipe in from any Edge come 108 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,720 on 109 00:07:55,639 --> 00:08:01,840 um oh no it's just timed okay we're 110 00:07:59,759 --> 00:08:05,800 getting your PC ready this will take a few minutes we'll be 111 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:10,840 back so here we are booted into Windows 8 it's extremely smooth which is nice it 112 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:16,039 looks like everything's animating at a very fast frame rate it looks like they 113 00:08:13,879 --> 00:08:20,440 just do away with animations that might have ended up choppy so I mean what we 114 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:23,440 saw especially on earlier iterations of Android is stuff like this would just 115 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:27,520 kind of like sort of turn itself around like 116 00:08:25,759 --> 00:08:31,720 that but they've just kind of gone NOP we're just going to kind of back it off 117 00:08:28,919 --> 00:08:35,519 and then pop it back up in a way that is oriented more according to how the user 118 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:39,279 wanted it I want to just show you guys some of the swipe gestures so on the 119 00:08:37,479 --> 00:08:43,399 right you can see search share start devices and settings so a quick setting 120 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:46,680 that I do want to adjust right now is screen brightness let's Crank that up so 121 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:49,560 you guys can see a little better I love the way they've implemented things like 122 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:54,920 volume and screen brightness where you just hold it and then dial it into 123 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:57,200 wherever you want and then see so with 124 00:08:54,920 --> 00:09:02,760 just like one touch you can almost mute and go all the way to maximum just like 125 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:06,640 that oh classic little Windows tone for doing 126 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:10,519 that kind of stuff same thing with brightness so it'll adjust the slider 127 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:13,480 according to where you are and then you can adjust it from there which is just I 128 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:17,440 think it's kind of neat you can change your keyboard okay touch keyboard and 129 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:21,880 handwriting panel you can change your notification settings hide for whatever 130 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:25,959 else uh once you're actually inside apps and I apologize we actually my phone 131 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:30,200 tethering is broken broken my stupid iPhone but um you can access your tab 132 00:09:28,839 --> 00:09:34,920 browser from here I've seen this approach complained about because it 133 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:36,720 requires an extra keystroke but I'm 134 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:40,560 actually not convinced that it's that bad of an idea because I I don't switch 135 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:44,560 between tabs all that often when I'm on a mobile device swiping up from the 136 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:48,680 bottom is also kind of application contextual so in this case it brings up 137 00:09:46,519 --> 00:09:53,920 the browser bar as well as uh your internet settings however you cannot 138 00:09:51,399 --> 00:10:00,560 access all of your internet settings just on the uh on the mobile the modern 139 00:09:57,959 --> 00:10:05,279 UI browser you actually have to use the desktop browser in order to access some 140 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:08,920 of the more advanced settings so more on that in a moment swiping in from the 141 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:12,640 right allows you to manage your multitasking so let's go back to the 142 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:17,120 start menu and there's another way to do that you can use the one button that's 143 00:10:14,839 --> 00:10:22,200 here to go back to start menu as well once you're on the desktop yes it's a 144 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:26,920 Windows desktop however Windows RT is not backwards compatible with uh 145 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:31,880 previous Windows applications that are not designed for ARM and every app you 146 00:10:29,399 --> 00:10:37,120 install on this device does have to come from the Windows uh wind the Microsoft 147 00:10:34,519 --> 00:10:40,720 store so internet options that's how you would actually change any of those 148 00:10:38,959 --> 00:10:45,200 options here everything's very smooth though and the touchcreen is extremely 149 00:10:42,279 --> 00:10:48,320 accurate on this particular tablet so I don't think you'll have any difficulty 150 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:52,639 navigating around and changing your security settings or whatever else that 151 00:10:50,639 --> 00:10:57,680 you need to do from the desktop is where you actually access all of your office 152 00:10:54,079 --> 00:11:00,959 apps as well these haven't been metroed 153 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:03,480 or modernized so you'll they look just 154 00:11:00,959 --> 00:11:08,639 like the desktop applications I'd really recommend getting something like uh the 155 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:11,360 keyboard DOC for the uh for the Vivo tab 156 00:11:08,639 --> 00:11:15,480 if you're going to seriously use office but if you're not then you know it's 157 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:19,760 still nice to have it's nice to have all those tools I personally like the ribbon 158 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:22,920 interface although not everyone not everyone does but the current iterations 159 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:27,880 are so much better than the original ones back in 2007 that you can do pretty 160 00:11:25,519 --> 00:11:31,399 much everything which is just just great to have that kind of product acity 161 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:36,920 available on a tablet I talked about having full access to the uh to the file 162 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:41,519 structure of the device so you can go into my computer and then you can even 163 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:45,320 just go like browse your hard drive all your stuff's just there it's just in 164 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,639 like Windows and you know can browse around look around like that can you 165 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:54,040 zoom oh you can although the way the zooming works is sort of gimpy but we'll 166 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:59,120 just sort of do away with that for now and pressing this button again gets you 167 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:00,360 back into the modern UI where they they' 168 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:04,120 set up a bunch of stuff for you so there's Kindle apps uh pre-installed on 169 00:12:02,519 --> 00:12:07,600 this one so there's a Kindle app available there's a lot of apps that 170 00:12:05,639 --> 00:12:11,399 weren't available yet when reviewers had their initial review units but the store 171 00:12:09,399 --> 00:12:15,560 should be open now but of course we aren't connected to the internet which 172 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:21,360 will make that demo somewhat difficult so we'll just go back to uh back to the 173 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:26,600 main UI now we're tethering to cameraman's 174 00:12:24,079 --> 00:12:30,360 phone just to sort of show a little bit of the browser experience so these 175 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:35,760 aren't super high resolution devices this is only 1366 X 768 it does still 176 00:12:33,639 --> 00:12:42,079 look reasonably sharp though it's not it's not as noticeable as I sort of 177 00:12:38,199 --> 00:12:45,000 would have expected but um it's not an 178 00:12:42,079 --> 00:12:49,440 iPad and it's not a TF700 display where we're talking super super highres 179 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:54,600 displays zooming and panning around is extremely smooth very responsive um I 180 00:12:52,639 --> 00:12:57,399 don't want you guys to judge the the navigation speed based on what we're 181 00:12:56,279 --> 00:13:04,519 seeing right here because we are Tethered to a phone right now and a room that has just so much interference in it 182 00:13:02,519 --> 00:13:08,360 uh let's go ahead and sort of show what the tab based switching is like so it's 183 00:13:06,199 --> 00:13:12,480 really quick to switch between tabs uh that personally doesn't bother me at all 184 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:17,120 if you do want to open a new tab you just go like this type in your url or 185 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:21,199 type in your search so I don't know ponies ponies are great Everyone likes 186 00:13:19,519 --> 00:13:26,720 ponies it helps if you spell it right though ponies and then you just go like 187 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,440 that does a Bing search by default so 188 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:32,839 yeah we can learn about oh that's a cute Pony uh you know what let's let's lose the 189 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:36,480 whole Pony thing now let's go back to Metro so let's go to the store Metro not 190 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:41,600 Metro modern UI let's go back to the store load up the store and uh see if 191 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:45,720 things look a little bit more densely populated so there you go you got your 192 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:49,240 Netflix your iHeart Radio Skype Skype better be available um Skype is actually 193 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:53,560 one that pretty much everyone should install because of the convergence that 194 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:57,320 I think we're going to see with Skype and uh Windows Live Messenger and all 195 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:03,160 those sort of messaging apps that are available the one that's it's still doesn't work with is um the the 196 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:07,240 integrated messenger I mean doesn't work with Google Talk so but we'll see if 197 00:14:04,839 --> 00:14:11,480 that ever happens uh so New York Times more tier one sort of new sites still 198 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:15,680 need to get applications ready oo remote desktop so that's that's a cool thing to 199 00:14:13,839 --> 00:14:22,600 have available oh another thing to note guys that yes this is a proper browser 200 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:26,399 so unlike Android and unlike uh unlike 201 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:28,800 iOS full flash is available on Windows 202 00:14:26,399 --> 00:14:33,079 this is this is Internet Explorer 10 so there's no limitations you will see 203 00:14:30,279 --> 00:14:38,360 flash content and personally it still matters to me um it's flash isn't dead 204 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:43,079 yet it might be like a dead standard or a dying standard but I still use it so 205 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:46,199 it's it's nice to have so let's have a look at all the stuff um physically 206 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:51,519 around the edge of the tablet this is your ejection port for the docking 207 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:55,720 keyboard this is your micro SD slot here's a micro HDMI port which I 208 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:59,279 personally think is pretty darn handy to have on a device like this in case 209 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:05,240 especially yeah it's one of those things if you ever want to do like a PowerPoint presentation um it actually has 210 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:11,240 PowerPoint unlike other platforms so there's a power button okay there's your 211 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:14,839 3 and 1/2 in or 3 and half millimet headphone yeah 3 and 1 half inch 212 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:18,959 headphone jack no big deal 3.5 mm headphone jack there's your volume 213 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:23,759 rocker and then on the bottom you find there's your power and then there's this 214 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:27,759 all of this is part of the docking for the keyboard add-on that is available 215 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:32,360 separately although I would definitely recommend it because as a productivity 216 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:35,800 tablet Windows RT is a much stronger and more compelling option than what we've 217 00:15:34,199 --> 00:15:40,000 seen from Android and iOS in the past thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Vivo tab don't 218 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:45,399 forget to subscribe to L techtips for more unboxings reviews and other computer 219 00:15:42,399 --> 00:15:45,399 videos