Welcome to my unboxing of the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700.
It's available in a couple different colors, including a sort of a dark
purple whiny color and then more of like a champagne
yellowy color. This is very similar to the Transformer Prime that we saw a
number of months ago and bears very
little resemblance at all actually to the original Transformer other than the
fact that it does support the additional dock accessory which gives you extra
battery life as well as a full keyboard.
turns it more into like a netbooky type thing as opposed to a tablet, which is
great because it's got tablet kind of battery life with like 15 hours of
battery life if you add the additional dock. So, there's your warranty
information as well as your users manual, which is pretty straightforward. You can pretty much find all the
information you need about using Android on the interwebs, so you shouldn't have
to worry too much about a user's manual. Included accessories are pretty sparse.
So, you've got an ASUS wall wart as well
as a charging cable. So, it still uses the same dot connector as the original
transformer did. Just like that. So, that's where your data and your power
are going to come from. And it includes actually an exceptional um
microfiber cloth. We have a couple of these in the TechTip studio. They
actually work really well. Let me go ahead and yink that. All right, moving
right along. So, what is special about the Transformer Pad Infinity? I think I
actually charged this already, so it should be working and should be pretty
much ready to go. Couple things. Number one is the display. So, it's Hold on.
Give me two seconds, guys. So, the big improvement is the display. The
Transformer Infiniti uses a 1920x 1200
that is full HD plus a little bit because it's 16x10 display that gives
you almost the same pixel density as the iPad 3, although not quite. It also uses
a an unprecedentedly fast Tegra 3 processor. The quadcore processor in
here runs at 1.6 GHz in quad-core mode and 1.7 GHz potentially in boost mode.
This doesn't necessarily increase the GPU speed, but the extra CPU speed and
the fact that it's using one gig of DDR3 memory at 1600 MHz means even with Ice
Cream Sandwich, it feels extremely snappy when you're browsing and it is
very, very, very fast, very responsive,
and actually, yeah, that's really nice. This is my first time actually using the
device, so just outstanding.
So, let's go back to home. Uh, a few more things. So, this is really cool.
Uh, they've got an IPS plus mode for the panel. So, you can either take it right
down to super super dark. You can have sort of a
pay attention. You can have sort of a happy medium. You can crank it or
There we go. You can crank it even more. So, IPS plus mode is for outdoor
readability. So, if you're sitting next to a window, if you're outside, IPS Plus
mode is going to give you the contrast and the brightness that you need in
order to not have any difficulty reading text or watching your movie or doing
whatever else that you're doing. Now, this one's still running Android Ice
Cream. Oh, okay. Let me get connected to Wi-Fi here, guys. Speaking of connecting
to Wi-Fi, that's one of the things that the Transformer Pad Infinity actually
improves dramatically over the Prime. So, it's been observed anecdotally that
you can get up to several times the data
rate using a transformer infinity versus a prime at distance from your wireless
access point. And the reason for that is they've made a a subtle change to the
design. So, instead of an all aluminum back with their concentric circle,
actually quite beautiful looking design, they've added a plastic strip at the
top. That plastic strip allows the wireless uh the wireless devices inside,
including your Wi-Fi and your GPS to communicate more effectively with the
outside world. So, the issues that plague the Transformer Prime owners are
over for Transformer Pad Infinity owners. Do I want to add a Google
account? Okay. Uh let's have a look at the externals actually while we're at
it. So, it's got a completely redesigned camera uh with a flash as well as a
microphone in. It's still 8 megapixels though, so nothing's really changed on
that front. Micro SD is still there. It's available in a couple of configurations, 32 and 64 gig. And
you've got micro HDMI as well as your uh
uh headphone out jack. Down here you see
the docking ports for the keyboard dock as well as the power and data port. On
this side you see not a whole lot. And on the top you've got your volume rocker
switch as well as your power button. And that pretty much takes care of it. So
feelwise, still very light, still very
thin. So they haven't added a ton of thickness like Apple did going from the
iPad 2 to the iPad 3. And there's advantages and disadvantages to that. So
they're using a more powerful Tegra 3 processor. They're using a higher
resolution screen. That means there's more to drive for that 25wh hour
battery. That means you're going to see about a 15 to 20% decline in battery
life in certain applications such as web browsing or watching videos compared to
the existing Transformer Prime. Whether that's a trade-off you're willing to
make is up to you. You still will get, you know, about 9 to 9 and 1/2 hours of
battery life out of it. Hence their 9 and 1/2 9 and 1/2 hour battery spec. So
whether that's acceptable to you is totally your own decision. Personally, I
would go for the more vibrant higher resolution screen. It's also extremely
high contrast versus having the extra maybe hour to an hour and a half of
battery life. We're using Corning Gorilla Glass 2, which means that it's
incredibly scratch resistant as well as impact resistance, so you're less likely
to have it shatter or break. And moving right along. Okay. Aha. Sonic Master
audio. So, the audio is pretty loud. Let me actually find something to play back
for you guys so that we can experience the audio ourselves. How about like uh
everyone's favorite Canadian superstar
No, let's go with this one.
All right. Uh, yeah, Justin Bieber Vivo.
Let's like crank it up. Slick's really excited about this. He loves Justin
Bieber.
Look how great Bieber looks in HD at 1080p. Slick. Slick's all like getting
all excited right now. Oh. Oh, that's the power button. Oops. I meant to go
for the volume button. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I haven't bothered him enough yet.
You still have to stay focused over here.
There we go.
Wow. This is actually kind of a terrible song. I've never heard it before.
Oh, wow. It got even more terrible. Okay, fine. I'm done with that. So, the
speakers on the back, only one speaker, mono speaker. So, if you do cover that
up while you're listening to music or watching terrible music videos, then uh
you'll have to uh sort of enjoy the muffled sound that you get out of it. I
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
propped up against something where you're not totally muffling it or you hold it up here, you hold it down here,
you hold it sort of like there. As long as you're not holding it wrong, then
you'll be fine.
So, I've got Demolition Ink running. And no, I don't want it to post about my
progress on Facebook. Are you kidding me? No, I don't want Open Faint. I
especially don't want broken faint. Uh,
campaign. Here we go.
Right. Start
and see how quick the loading is. I'm just kind of curious now. I also loaded
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
much, you know, what you'd expect from uh from a Tegra 3 processor. So, there
we go. Let's just kind of pan around a little bit. Oh, so buttery smooth.
That's really, really nice, even when you compare to uh
the uh the Jelly Bean tablet, the Nexus 7 that uh we took a look at a little bit
earlier. So, there's that. Let's load up the globalling seems faster as well. I
don't know if that's a function of the faster memory or the fact that uh maybe
ASUS has implemented slightly faster
flash for the storage. I'm not sure, but both globall
seem to load faster on this tablet than they did on the Nexus 7. So, what
happens if we hit Mr. Clown over here?
I don't know. Okay, not going to overthink this, but uh there we go. So,
that pretty much does it. It's fast. Oh,
cancel. No, no need for Flash Player. Flash Player is going away. If you uh if
you're really married to having Flash Player on your tablet, you might want to stop doing system updates at this point.
Speaking of which, postpone. Quit bugging me about this.
Let's see how uh how the web browser feels because really that's a big that's
nice
rotation. We got a bit of a delay going on there.
Well, hopefully it gets a jelly bean upgrade at some point because jelly bean
is so buttery smooth, hence the project butter name. So, thank you for checking
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