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it has taken me forever to do this with all the complications on my channel and

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whatnot but I am finally unboxing the assus apad TF 101 Transformer this is

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the 16 gig model and I don't have the keyboard on me today but I am still very

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excited to bring you this unboxing because even though everyone in their

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dog has pretty much done it at this point I have not yet and I am still

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excited uh the one that I had before when I did a little bit of content on

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the TF101 back closer to launch was a demo unit so I did not have a retail box

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I could not share with you the retail

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box unboxing experience the inside of

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the box is black very stylish okay the product itself is there

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and now I will move it the plastic that holds the product is

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also black ah there's all the accessories so let's have a look at the accessories themselves the first thing

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we find is a little EAD uh paper

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thingamajiggy holder it's a paper holder

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there finally managed to spit it out we have a users's manual which is obviously

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not very complete really you're using Android so what you're going to have to

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do is you're going to have to you know browse the forums try things just try

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things because andro what I discovered was a little bit hard for me to get into

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I spent a fair amount of time with a Motorola Zoom over the last little while

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and it like doesn't feel quite right at

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first but once you set it up the way that you like it it's very very natural

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to use and so this is Android Honeycomb a couple tips for using your e-pad so

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they show you how to use some of the included things including the file

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manager which allows you to use manage your internal storage um removable

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devices including the micro SD port and

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removing the external storage devices so that there you go there's a little icon there so that's one of the more Android

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Transformer specific ones you got a charger cable here so that's just a USB

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charger cable and you also have a wall

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wart so you got a power to USB power

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adapter guy right there now the

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Transformer TF101 itself actually let's see what isus has to say for itself in

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terms of what they think are the best features right off the bat here so 178

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degrees now ASUS makes they're not shy

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about advertising that they are using an IPS panel in here that is covered with

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gorilla glass that is a premium feature IPS panel means you not only have better

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viewing angles so you can pretty much see what's on the screen even from way

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over here way over here but you also have better color accuracy regardless of

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where you're looking at it from so that is a great feature they also claim up to

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9.5 hours of battery life and that is with the screen at 60 nits as I recall

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in terms of brightness and playing back 720p video next SRS 3D stereo sound

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don't bother coming in it's okay I can read these um so it does have stereo

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speakers and they do have software on here that allows you to in theory enjoy

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surround sound but my experience with those software Solutions in the past is

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that they're not that compelling I would still say though that compared to

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something like an iPad 2 having stereo speakers on the unit is a definite plus

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that is a selling point for sure because using the iPad 2 to watch videos over

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the last little while has kind of annoyed me that it only has one speaker

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and that the speaker is hidden away on the back of the unit next we have a 10

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finger multi-touch input so you can potentially put both of your hands on it

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and go like this should you so desire if you want to like fruit ninja it up and

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you're like I just want to hit everything then you can use all 10 fingers if you want next we've got a

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keyboard dock with USB and SD card reader that is optional so that also

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includes an extended battery like I said I don't have that today but that does

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use these latches right here as well as this input in order to connect not only

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the uh oh yeah no I already said that the USB SD card reader and the extended

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battery as well as the keyboard and then it folds up like a laptop and it also

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acts as a case SL screen protector it is also 680 G light really they say 680 G

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light well I would say it is 680 G of weight or 680 G heavy but you know

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everyone can interpret that the way they desire so why don't we turn this baby on

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now like the Zoom which is one of the tablets that I have have more experience

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with than this particular one like the Zoom the Transformer is intended to be

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used in portrait mode so you can actually here give me a sec I'm going to grab my iPad so like the Zoom the

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Transformer has its webcam as well as its light sensor on the top you can see

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that the logo here is right side up when you are holding it in landscape mode so

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when you compare that to something like an iPad 2 where your camera is here

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Steve Jobs clearly is expecting you to use the tablet more like how you would

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use a traditional Notepad okay so

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actually you can see that uh mine is locked in landscape mode right now or

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you would be able to see that if I could figure out how to how to unlock it

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normally it's over here oh right right cuz I set up the button so yeah I I like

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I didn't even know how to get it to Port uh to go into portrait mode because I

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predominantly use it for watching videos actually here's the thing I complained

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about before where the iPad 2's only speaker is on the back which means that

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if you're watching videos in a less than ideal environment you are not going to

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be able to hear it very well so let let's get back to the TF 101 it's

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running uh with a teg or 2 processor this is so this is something I haven't

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mentioned yet and this is a huge advantage that a lot of the honeycomb

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tablets running Tegra 2 have over something like an Apple iPad so you have

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way more 3D performance out of a Tegra 2

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than you're going to get out of any other chip on the market now there aren't a ton of games that take

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advantage of it but the titles are rapidly rolling in so even something

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like fruit ninja looks better better on Tegra 2 and

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I'm not even kidding because the fruit

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will actually be far more round and less polygon like this when you're when

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you're slicing through I mean does it make a huge difference to the gameplay experience no but it's still kind of

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cool that you do get better graphics Graphics out of the tegr 2 platform now

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in terms of a few more spec things before I just finish up with the

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physical uh look of the unit I've turned it on now

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okay um you've got a 1.2 megapixel camera in the front the camera on the

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back is a 5 megapixel camera and that is also located in an ideal location for uh

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landscape mode use where as you can see once again on the iPad 2 it is

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configured more for portrait use all right and I think that's pretty

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much it actually okay so physical layout let's have a look at the button so

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here's our power button here on the side this is a far more ideal location than

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the one on the zoom in my opinion which is on the back right here I don't bother

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getting too close it's okay I'm just showing General things so on the side

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here is means that when you're using it whether you're using it like this or

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like this you can you can kind of reach it whereas when it's on the back it's

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very awkward to reach up here it's not it's not always uh not always

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comfortable so on the top we don't have any buttons at all on this side we've

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got a microphone port or rather sorry headph headphone SL microphone Port so

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that can be used with the uh with like a headset style device we have a mini HDMI

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that is such a cool feature uh mini HDMI is don't bother getting too close it's

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okay mini HDMI is great for playing games like uh like that Wave Runner

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Style game where basically you can go like this and then you can actually

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watch the big screen at the same time so it does support 1080p output over HDMI

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finally we have a micro SD card so this is the big reason why very few people

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are buying 32 gig Transformers because you can buy the 16 gig buy yourself a

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cheapo micro SD card throw it in there and all of a sudden you've got a bunch

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more storage now in terms of the oh

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actually Gorilla Glass what does that mean means you've got a very durable piece of glass on the front and on the

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back this is a huge complaint I have about the iPad 2 so you can see the back

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of my iPad 2 I've only had this thing for about a month got a big old scratch

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there that was actually from sliding it across a granite countertop just got

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generally the back looks totally grungy and horrible already the back of the

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Transformer I mean it's not real attractive it's Brown let's be honest

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here but what it is is very durable very

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scratch resistant I guarantee you you know I'm going to do this I'm going to take a brand new Transformer I'm going

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to go like this because I don't care

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because the textured back the textured appearance of the back is going to

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really mask and really hide things like fingerprints and small surface scratches

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much better than most other surfaces out there so thank you for checking out my

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unboxing of the ASUS Transformer TF101 don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech

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tips from more unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys some

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clarification about the speaker that's cameraman by the way who's visiting us

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here um he's going out to lunch but I

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can't because I'm busy so these are not the speakers sorry about that that's

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just a textured pattern on the side of the unit the speakers are actually

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located here and here on the other side

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so while that is significantly better than being located on the back it's

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still not going to give you quite the Sound Performance of a front-mounted

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speaker and I actually don't know if any of these tablets have front mounted speakers so I had originally thought

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these were in the front they're not so there small correction sorry guys one

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more note ASUS also advertises one year of unlimited web storage that comes with

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the TF101 so that's kind of cool