WEBVTT 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:17.520 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the ASUS Vivo Tab Smart. This is a 00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:19.600 Windows 8 tablet, so it is not an RT 00:00:17.520 --> 00:00:24.240 tablet, which I personally find quite exciting. That means that you are not 00:00:21.439 --> 00:00:30.160 locked into only the applications that you can get on the marketplace in uh in 00:00:27.279 --> 00:00:34.480 Windows 8/ Windows RT. You can install regular desktop applications and use 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:37.879 them on a tablet even if they're not designed on a tablet, which can give you 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:41.840 a lot of flexibility. And ASUS has kind of been 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:45.760 all about flexibility with their tablet offerings, giving you the option, I 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:50.559 mean, with the original Transformer to add like a keyboard to it and just sort 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:54.559 of generally cool stuff like that. So, here's the tablet itself. It looks 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:58.239 pretty much like a tablet. So, not much out of the ordinary there. In terms of 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:03.920 specs, it's running an Intel Clover Trail Atom processor, two gigs of RAM. 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:06.479 It has 64 gigs of solidstate storage as 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:11.040 well as Oh, check that out. It has NFC. No way. That's sweet. Uh, okay. Sorry, 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:17.439 sorry, sorry. I got distracted. So, it has up to an 8 and 1 half hour battery, an 8 megapixel rear camera. So, that's 00:01:15.520 --> 00:01:21.200 right there, which also has an included flash. I think I'm probably missing some 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:25.360 specs here. This was kind of amusing to me. They have two of exactly the same 00:01:23.119 --> 00:01:28.880 sticker on the back of the Oh, it's in French. I get it. I couldn't actually 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:35.840 find any difference because none of the specs are actually in French. Like they 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:37.759 just put 2G instead of G small O. And uh 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:42.799 yeah, or should I say Clover Trail because apparently it's Clover View. My 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:45.920 bad. So it has wireless uh BGN, 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:48.000 Bluetooth 4.0, uh 2 megapixel front 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:51.680 camera, and that's pretty much it. That's all I missed. Wow, I was doing 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:54.079 pretty good. All right, so let's go ahead and have a look at what they 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:58.640 include in terms of accessories. You've got an ASUS wall wart, which basically 00:01:56.399 --> 00:02:04.079 looks like any other ASUS wall wart. And then you've got a USB to micro USB cable 00:02:02.479 --> 00:02:08.560 that you will plug into that and use as a charging cable. So unlike ASUS's 00:02:06.479 --> 00:02:12.480 Android tablets, we do not have their custom dock connector. See, no dock 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:16.239 connector on the bottom. It is just using micro USB for charging. So that's 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:20.000 a bit of a that's a bit of a departure. They include a microfiber cloth with the 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:23.840 unit, which is very handy because you will probably want to clean it at some 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:27.680 point, as well as a quick start guide for how to use Windows 8. So, setting up 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:31.200 for the first time the Windows 8 lock screen. Swiping in from the right to get 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:35.519 to the charms menu. This is super important. As well as the Windows or 00:02:33.519 --> 00:02:41.519 modern or whatever UI they're calling it now, the UI formerly known as 00:02:38.200 --> 00:02:42.800 Metro. All right, Atom inside. It looks 00:02:41.519 --> 00:02:48.959 like Oh, no. I thought they got away without putting the atom sticker on the unit itself, but they did not. It is on 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:52.800 the unit once you peel off the plastic covering. You will see that. Sorry, this 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:58.480 is just taking me a little while to get at. It's kind of tricky. There we go. 00:02:56.720 --> 00:03:02.080 ASUS does such a great job of their tablets. I mean, they're all gorgeous. 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:08.239 This one's super light. So, it only weighs uh it looks like the actual spec 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:10.080 is 580 g, which is very, very 00:03:08.239 --> 00:03:14.480 respectable. It has a little bit more heft to it than some of the um than some 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:17.519 of the super sort of ultra lightweight tablets that I've encountered in the 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:21.120 past, but it's definitely not as heavy as something like an iPad 3. The power 00:03:19.519 --> 00:03:24.879 button is located up here on the top. So, I was just pressing that to get it 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:28.800 powered on so we can start the startup process. On the back as well, you can 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:33.920 see, oh, look at that. They've handily labeled where the NFC um tap is going to 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:39.519 take place. Because with something like a tablet, if you were to, for example, 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:40.879 sync it to a Windows phone, then uh 00:03:39.519 --> 00:03:46.319 Slick's not paying attention. There we go. If you were to sync it to a Windows phone, then it could become a guessing 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:50.000 game of where do I actually tap it? So, they they tell you so that you're going 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:54.239 to uh you're going to know without too much difficulty. On the side, you find 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:58.959 your headphone jack as well as your volume up and volume down. On the 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:04.480 bottom, you find absolutely nothing. And then on the other side, you find your 00:04:00.799 --> 00:04:07.120 charging port as well as aoo. Is that 00:04:04.480 --> 00:04:13.400 what I think it is? No way to know for sure unless I can open it. 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:15.840 Uhhuh. You know what? We'll be back in a 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:21.040 moment. That is what I thought it was. We've got HDMI in there as well as micro 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:25.280 SD expansion on the side. In the time we've been off camera, I've also waited 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:29.919 for Windows 8 to boot up. So you can see that even though I selected a blue theme 00:04:27.280 --> 00:04:34.880 during my setup, it is actually by signing in to my to my Windows Live 00:04:32.479 --> 00:04:38.080 account or whatever they call it. I used to be passport, what do they call it 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:42.000 now? I don't even remember. Whatever I signed into my Microsoft account. So now 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:48.880 all of a sudden my photos are showing up. My theme is correct and I can access 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:50.960 my Sky Drive and just generally sort of 00:04:48.880 --> 00:04:55.280 there you go, Facebook, all that kind of stuff that I have linked together. So 00:04:52.720 --> 00:05:01.360 things are pretty much good. And unlike Windows RT devices, I can go I can use a 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:08.759 browser. I can download any application that I desire. So I could go and search 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:14.919 for I don't know, let's search for 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:16.600 uh CPU Z or something like that here. So 00:05:14.919 --> 00:05:21.680 keyboard CPU 00:05:18.919 --> 00:05:25.400 dash Z because that seems like a cool application to run on a tablet, right? 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:30.240 CPU ID. I mean, if you guys are familiar 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:34.800 with the concept of Windows RT versus Windows 8, then you probably don't need 00:05:32.080 --> 00:05:39.360 me to explain this to you, but I think it's pretty cool anyway. So, let's do 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:43.919 the 1.62 setup version in English. Download. Now, it's actually pretty 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:48.000 snappy. Overall, I'm really impressed with the web browsing experience so far 00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:51.120 on this Atom processor, and we're going to find out exactly which Atom processor 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:55.199 it is. I'd also love for you guys to check out the viewing angle on this IPS 00:05:53.039 --> 00:06:00.080 panel. So, I mean, ASUS again, they do such a great job with their tablets of 00:05:56.960 --> 00:06:01.840 just well, building them well. It's 00:06:00.080 --> 00:06:06.639 like, how do you how do you say it in a way other than that? So, they use an IPS 00:06:03.919 --> 00:06:10.960 panel. They use a good quality uh overall fit and finish to the device. 00:06:08.880 --> 00:06:14.800 Actually, I didn't mention the back is has a nice uh rubberized feel to it. So, 00:06:13.440 --> 00:06:20.240 there's your there's your speaker on the rear as well. I don't think I pointed that out before, but it makes it easy to 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:25.520 hold on to. I think they've also found a good balance of sort of bezel to screen 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:30.080 here because it's just wide enough for my thumb to sit here without causing 00:06:27.840 --> 00:06:32.560 problems with touchscreen stuff that I'm trying to do elsewhere, causing 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:37.960 interference. Like, if I had a thumb sitting here and I tried to do other things. Oh, yeah. It caused problems all 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:44.280 over the place. No, I don't want an ask toolbar. Next. Install. Sure. Create a 00:06:41.520 --> 00:06:50.479 desktop icon. That should be fine. And don't want to view that. So, let's 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:52.080 go ahead and go back to 00:06:50.479 --> 00:06:57.919 uh how do I minimize everything? I don't even know. Yeah, that should work. Nope. 00:06:55.280 --> 00:06:57.919 Let's minimize 00:06:58.440 --> 00:07:04.560 it. There we go. So, let's go ahead and 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:08.639 try launching CPUZ. So, let's find out what kind of CPU we got on here. 00:07:07.599 --> 00:07:12.960 Oh, look at that. They're including their Sonic Master uh uh branding for 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:17.880 the onboard sound as well. So, it should be slightly better onboard sound than you'd normally get on a tablet. So, 00:07:15.919 --> 00:07:23.840 there we go. We have an Atom Z2760 at 1.8 gigahertz with a core speed 00:07:20.960 --> 00:07:28.000 of 1792, two cores, and four threads with hyperthreading. Our memory is 2 00:07:26.400 --> 00:07:33.039 gigs, and it doesn't actually look like it picks up much other information about 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:34.479 it, which is uh sort of, I guess, part 00:07:33.039 --> 00:07:38.880 of the course. CPUZ is not really optimized for these platforms anyway. So, there's a lot of information that's 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:42.639 missing. But, I think that pretty much wraps it up. What's the advantage? It's 00:07:40.960 --> 00:07:46.240 still a tablet. It's still super portable. The battery life is more like 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:49.919 a tablet where they're quoting eight plus hours of battery life, which is 00:07:47.840 --> 00:07:55.440 really awesome compared to previous Intel processor powered tablets and you 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:58.400 be are able to actually install whatever applications you want. Don't forget to 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:03.319 subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:03.319 videos.