Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the ASUS Vivo Tab Smart. This is a
Windows 8 tablet, so it is not an RT
tablet, which I personally find quite exciting. That means that you are not
locked into only the applications that you can get on the marketplace in uh in
Windows 8/ Windows RT. You can install regular desktop applications and use
them on a tablet even if they're not designed on a tablet, which can give you
a lot of flexibility. And ASUS has kind of been
all about flexibility with their tablet offerings, giving you the option, I
mean, with the original Transformer to add like a keyboard to it and just sort
of generally cool stuff like that. So, here's the tablet itself. It looks
pretty much like a tablet. So, not much out of the ordinary there. In terms of
specs, it's running an Intel Clover Trail Atom processor, two gigs of RAM.
It has 64 gigs of solidstate storage as
well as Oh, check that out. It has NFC. No way. That's sweet. Uh, okay. Sorry,
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
right there, which also has an included flash. I think I'm probably missing some
specs here. This was kind of amusing to me. They have two of exactly the same
sticker on the back of the Oh, it's in French. I get it. I couldn't actually
find any difference because none of the specs are actually in French. Like they
just put 2G instead of G small O. And uh
yeah, or should I say Clover Trail because apparently it's Clover View. My
bad. So it has wireless uh BGN,
Bluetooth 4.0, uh 2 megapixel front
camera, and that's pretty much it. That's all I missed. Wow, I was doing
pretty good. All right, so let's go ahead and have a look at what they
include in terms of accessories. You've got an ASUS wall wart, which basically
looks like any other ASUS wall wart. And then you've got a USB to micro USB cable
that you will plug into that and use as a charging cable. So unlike ASUS's
Android tablets, we do not have their custom dock connector. See, no dock
connector on the bottom. It is just using micro USB for charging. So that's
a bit of a that's a bit of a departure. They include a microfiber cloth with the
unit, which is very handy because you will probably want to clean it at some
point, as well as a quick start guide for how to use Windows 8. So, setting up
for the first time the Windows 8 lock screen. Swiping in from the right to get
to the charms menu. This is super important. As well as the Windows or
modern or whatever UI they're calling it now, the UI formerly known as
Metro. All right, Atom inside. It looks
like Oh, no. I thought they got away without putting the atom sticker on the unit itself, but they did not. It is on
the unit once you peel off the plastic covering. You will see that. Sorry, this
is just taking me a little while to get at. It's kind of tricky. There we go.
ASUS does such a great job of their tablets. I mean, they're all gorgeous.
This one's super light. So, it only weighs uh it looks like the actual spec
is 580 g, which is very, very
respectable. It has a little bit more heft to it than some of the um than some
of the super sort of ultra lightweight tablets that I've encountered in the
past, but it's definitely not as heavy as something like an iPad 3. The power
button is located up here on the top. So, I was just pressing that to get it
powered on so we can start the startup process. On the back as well, you can
see, oh, look at that. They've handily labeled where the NFC um tap is going to
take place. Because with something like a tablet, if you were to, for example,
sync it to a Windows phone, then uh
Slick's not paying attention. There we go. If you were to sync it to a Windows phone, then it could become a guessing
game of where do I actually tap it? So, they they tell you so that you're going
to uh you're going to know without too much difficulty. On the side, you find
your headphone jack as well as your volume up and volume down. On the
bottom, you find absolutely nothing. And then on the other side, you find your
charging port as well as aoo. Is that
what I think it is? No way to know for sure unless I can open it.
Uhhuh. You know what? We'll be back in a
moment. That is what I thought it was. We've got HDMI in there as well as micro
SD expansion on the side. In the time we've been off camera, I've also waited
for Windows 8 to boot up. So you can see that even though I selected a blue theme
during my setup, it is actually by signing in to my to my Windows Live
account or whatever they call it. I used to be passport, what do they call it
now? I don't even remember. Whatever I signed into my Microsoft account. So now
all of a sudden my photos are showing up. My theme is correct and I can access
my Sky Drive and just generally sort of
there you go, Facebook, all that kind of stuff that I have linked together. So
things are pretty much good. And unlike Windows RT devices, I can go I can use a
browser. I can download any application that I desire. So I could go and search
for I don't know, let's search for
uh CPU Z or something like that here. So
keyboard CPU
dash Z because that seems like a cool application to run on a tablet, right?
CPU ID. I mean, if you guys are familiar
with the concept of Windows RT versus Windows 8, then you probably don't need
me to explain this to you, but I think it's pretty cool anyway. So, let's do
the 1.62 setup version in English. Download. Now, it's actually pretty
snappy. Overall, I'm really impressed with the web browsing experience so far
on this Atom processor, and we're going to find out exactly which Atom processor
it is. I'd also love for you guys to check out the viewing angle on this IPS
panel. So, I mean, ASUS again, they do such a great job with their tablets of
just well, building them well. It's
like, how do you how do you say it in a way other than that? So, they use an IPS
panel. They use a good quality uh overall fit and finish to the device.
Actually, I didn't mention the back is has a nice uh rubberized feel to it. So,
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
hold on to. I think they've also found a good balance of sort of bezel to screen
here because it's just wide enough for my thumb to sit here without causing
problems with touchscreen stuff that I'm trying to do elsewhere, causing
interference. Like, if I had a thumb sitting here and I tried to do other things. Oh, yeah. It caused problems all
over the place. No, I don't want an ask toolbar. Next. Install. Sure. Create a
desktop icon. That should be fine. And don't want to view that. So, let's
go ahead and go back to
uh how do I minimize everything? I don't even know. Yeah, that should work. Nope.
Let's minimize
it. There we go. So, let's go ahead and
try launching CPUZ. So, let's find out what kind of CPU we got on here.
Oh, look at that. They're including their Sonic Master uh uh branding for
the onboard sound as well. So, it should be slightly better onboard sound than you'd normally get on a tablet. So,
there we go. We have an Atom Z2760 at 1.8 gigahertz with a core speed
of 1792, two cores, and four threads with hyperthreading. Our memory is 2
gigs, and it doesn't actually look like it picks up much other information about
it, which is uh sort of, I guess, part
of the course. CPUZ is not really optimized for these platforms anyway. So, there's a lot of information that's
missing. But, I think that pretty much wraps it up. What's the advantage? It's
still a tablet. It's still super portable. The battery life is more like
a tablet where they're quoting eight plus hours of battery life, which is
really awesome compared to previous Intel processor powered tablets and you
be are able to actually install whatever applications you want. Don't forget to
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