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Welcome to my unboxing of the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700.

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It's available in a couple different colors, including a sort of a dark

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purple whiny color and then more of like a champagne

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yellowy color. This is very similar to the Transformer Prime that we saw a

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number of months ago and bears very

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little resemblance at all actually to the original Transformer other than the

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fact that it does support the additional dock accessory which gives you extra

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battery life as well as a full keyboard.

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turns it more into like a netbooky type thing as opposed to a tablet, which is

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great because it's got tablet kind of battery life with like 15 hours of

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battery life if you add the additional dock. So, there's your warranty

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information as well as your users manual, which is pretty straightforward. You can pretty much find all the

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information you need about using Android on the interwebs, so you shouldn't have

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to worry too much about a user's manual. Included accessories are pretty sparse.

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So, you've got an ASUS wall wart as well

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as a charging cable. So, it still uses the same dot connector as the original

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transformer did. Just like that. So, that's where your data and your power

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are going to come from. And it includes actually an exceptional um

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microfiber cloth. We have a couple of these in the TechTip studio. They

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actually work really well. Let me go ahead and yink that. All right, moving

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right along. So, what is special about the Transformer Pad Infinity? I think I

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actually charged this already, so it should be working and should be pretty

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much ready to go. Couple things. Number one is the display. So, it's Hold on.

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Give me two seconds, guys. So, the big improvement is the display. The

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Transformer Infiniti uses a 1920x 1200

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that is full HD plus a little bit because it's 16x10 display that gives

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you almost the same pixel density as the iPad 3, although not quite. It also uses

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a an unprecedentedly fast Tegra 3 processor. The quadcore processor in

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here runs at 1.6 GHz in quad-core mode and 1.7 GHz potentially in boost mode.

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This doesn't necessarily increase the GPU speed, but the extra CPU speed and

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the fact that it's using one gig of DDR3 memory at 1600 MHz means even with Ice

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Cream Sandwich, it feels extremely snappy when you're browsing and it is

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very, very, very fast, very responsive,

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and actually, yeah, that's really nice. This is my first time actually using the

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device, so just outstanding.

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So, let's go back to home. Uh, a few more things. So, this is really cool.

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Uh, they've got an IPS plus mode for the panel. So, you can either take it right

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down to super super dark. You can have sort of a

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pay attention. You can have sort of a happy medium. You can crank it or

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There we go. You can crank it even more. So, IPS plus mode is for outdoor

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readability. So, if you're sitting next to a window, if you're outside, IPS Plus

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mode is going to give you the contrast and the brightness that you need in

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order to not have any difficulty reading text or watching your movie or doing

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whatever else that you're doing. Now, this one's still running Android Ice

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Cream. Oh, okay. Let me get connected to Wi-Fi here, guys. Speaking of connecting

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to Wi-Fi, that's one of the things that the Transformer Pad Infinity actually

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improves dramatically over the Prime. So, it's been observed anecdotally that

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you can get up to several times the data

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rate using a transformer infinity versus a prime at distance from your wireless

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access point. And the reason for that is they've made a a subtle change to the

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design. So, instead of an all aluminum back with their concentric circle,

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actually quite beautiful looking design, they've added a plastic strip at the

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top. That plastic strip allows the wireless uh the wireless devices inside,

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including your Wi-Fi and your GPS to communicate more effectively with the

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outside world. So, the issues that plague the Transformer Prime owners are

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over for Transformer Pad Infinity owners. Do I want to add a Google

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account? Okay. Uh let's have a look at the externals actually while we're at

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it. So, it's got a completely redesigned camera uh with a flash as well as a

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microphone in. It's still 8 megapixels though, so nothing's really changed on

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that front. Micro SD is still there. It's available in a couple of configurations, 32 and 64 gig. And

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you've got micro HDMI as well as your uh

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uh headphone out jack. Down here you see

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the docking ports for the keyboard dock as well as the power and data port. On

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this side you see not a whole lot. And on the top you've got your volume rocker

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switch as well as your power button. And that pretty much takes care of it. So

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feelwise, still very light, still very

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thin. So they haven't added a ton of thickness like Apple did going from the

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iPad 2 to the iPad 3. And there's advantages and disadvantages to that. So

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they're using a more powerful Tegra 3 processor. They're using a higher

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resolution screen. That means there's more to drive for that 25wh hour

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battery. That means you're going to see about a 15 to 20% decline in battery

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life in certain applications such as web browsing or watching videos compared to

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the existing Transformer Prime. Whether that's a trade-off you're willing to

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make is up to you. You still will get, you know, about 9 to 9 and 1/2 hours of

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battery life out of it. Hence their 9 and 1/2 9 and 1/2 hour battery spec. So

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whether that's acceptable to you is totally your own decision. Personally, I

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would go for the more vibrant higher resolution screen. It's also extremely

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high contrast versus having the extra maybe hour to an hour and a half of

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battery life. We're using Corning Gorilla Glass 2, which means that it's

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incredibly scratch resistant as well as impact resistance, so you're less likely

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to have it shatter or break. And moving right along. Okay. Aha. Sonic Master

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audio. So, the audio is pretty loud. Let me actually find something to play back

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for you guys so that we can experience the audio ourselves. How about like uh

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everyone's favorite Canadian superstar

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No, let's go with this one.

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All right. Uh, yeah, Justin Bieber Vivo.

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Let's like crank it up. Slick's really excited about this. He loves Justin

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Bieber.

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Look how great Bieber looks in HD at 1080p. Slick. Slick's all like getting

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all excited right now. Oh. Oh, that's the power button. Oops. I meant to go

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for the volume button. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I haven't bothered him enough yet.

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You still have to stay focused over here.

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There we go.

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Wow. This is actually kind of a terrible song. I've never heard it before.

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Oh, wow. It got even more terrible. Okay, fine. I'm done with that. So, the

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speakers on the back, only one speaker, mono speaker. So, if you do cover that

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up while you're listening to music or watching terrible music videos, then uh

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you'll have to uh sort of enjoy the muffled sound that you get out of it. I

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would have preferred to see a stereo speaker set up, but it's not the end of the world. And as long as you got it

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propped up against something where you're not totally muffling it or you hold it up here, you hold it down here,

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you hold it sort of like there. As long as you're not holding it wrong, then

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you'll be fine.

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So, I've got Demolition Ink running. And no, I don't want it to post about my

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progress on Facebook. Are you kidding me? No, I don't want Open Faint. I

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especially don't want broken faint. Uh,

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campaign. Here we go.

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Right. Start

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and see how quick the loading is. I'm just kind of curious now. I also loaded

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the global demo on here so we can see what kind of performance we get out of that. I'm expecting it to be pretty

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much, you know, what you'd expect from uh from a Tegra 3 processor. So, there

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we go. Let's just kind of pan around a little bit. Oh, so buttery smooth.

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That's really, really nice, even when you compare to uh

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the uh the Jelly Bean tablet, the Nexus 7 that uh we took a look at a little bit

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earlier. So, there's that. Let's load up the globalling seems faster as well. I

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don't know if that's a function of the faster memory or the fact that uh maybe

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ASUS has implemented slightly faster

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flash for the storage. I'm not sure, but both globall

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seem to load faster on this tablet than they did on the Nexus 7. So, what

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happens if we hit Mr. Clown over here?

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I don't know. Okay, not going to overthink this, but uh there we go. So,

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that pretty much does it. It's fast. Oh,

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cancel. No, no need for Flash Player. Flash Player is going away. If you uh if

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you're really married to having Flash Player on your tablet, you might want to stop doing system updates at this point.

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Speaking of which, postpone. Quit bugging me about this.

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Let's see how uh how the web browser feels because really that's a big that's

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nice

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rotation. We got a bit of a delay going on there.

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Well, hopefully it gets a jelly bean upgrade at some point because jelly bean

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is so buttery smooth, hence the project butter name. So, thank you for checking

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out my unboxing and first look at the Transformer Pad Infinity. Don't forget

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