ASUS Transformer TF300T Keyboard Dock & Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the accessories for the epad Transformer
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TF uh 300 so we have a couple of
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different things here one is their Versa sleeve which is apparently wrap up in
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elegant functionality your TF 300 dual
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positioning multi-angle cover for the EAD okay that is it that's the whole
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description so hopefully once we actually put an e-pad inside it it'll
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become somewhat more self-explanatory that's kind of nice actually so the
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outside actually has a similar finish to the original
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Transformer sort of looking thing okay
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um and the inside uses like a microfiber
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feeling very very soft uh fabric we've
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got like sort of this going on whatever that is I guess you can store like a
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microwave SD card in there or something that's kind of cool okay we've got this
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is kind of a um like a dely type thing
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okay so you throw your tablet in there so we're going to try putting an actual
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tablet in it but the first we're going to have a look at the Transformer Pad
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mobile doc so since the first Transformer ASUS has been doing this
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whole keyboard docky expansion IO
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battery expansion thingy that makes the Transformer tablets really set apart
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from their competition so in terms of stuff that's included you got a user
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manual which is probably unnecessary for this particular thing because it's
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really easy basically what you do is you
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plug your TF300 into it you just line it
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up using the little arrows oh can you see the arrow anymore sorry I already to
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put it in there see lined up using little arrows plug it in it clicks into
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place turns your tablet into a netbook
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so basically the netbook um is dead unless you really need like a much lower
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cost solution because this isn't really that cheap still um but you get all this
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functionality so you get a keyboard and or you get a touchpad you get a full
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keyboard including all this all these
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hot keys and all this good sort of uh here hold on let's go back to home there
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we go so is is that on yet not sure okay
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so you get all of these hot Keys related to Android functionality full keyboard
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numbers arrows everything that you need so it turns the it turns the tablet from
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sort of of a cool video watching web browsing device into a legitimate note
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taking productivity device that is still
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super portable and still touchcreen so just because you plug this in doesn't
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mean you can't still use the touchcreen as well now what else does it have it
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also has what the heck is this oh right that's for charging it haha so that's
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ASUS's proprietary do connector on the
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front not a whole lot on this side uh
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we've got an SD card slot as as well as a USB port so you also add IO
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functionality to the tablet now the tablet already has a micr SD slot so you
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can ad add add an additional SD card for
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a like whopping on a on even on a 16 gig model so let's say on a 32 gig model and
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you throw a couple 32 gig SD cards which were like 25 bucks each these days for
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50 bucks plus the cost of the tablet you've got whatever 32 gigs * 3 is 96
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gigs of storage on this device I mean
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that's getting up there laptops with ssds that's awesome uh on the bottom you
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got your rubberized grippies not to
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mention right the last but not least part the Transformer keyboard is not
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just a keyboard in IO it is also a battery expansion pack so when you're
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running low on battery you pop it into the bottom piece assuming the bottom
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piece is charged and you can actually run for up to 15 hours on the two of
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them combined if they both have a full charge so that is pretty cool as well I
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think that pretty much cover it now let's have a look or a closer look we
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already took a look but it was a very brief look at the versus sleeve so I
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don't know if it fits it with the keyboard dock but apparently it does
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okay so there you go that's what it looks like with a keyboard dock on
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it however I don't think that is necessarily the intended use what it
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looks like to me is and oh here's how you undock it it's really easy okay to
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me it looks more like see they've got got some like usage scenarios here so
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let's figure out how this works so you store it in
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here okay so that's pretty straightforward looks like
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that okay and then you can also prop it
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up apparently so let's figure out how that works shall we
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mhm that doesn't seem right wait really
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I think this is how they have it set up like uh it's folded once and then it's
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like holding it like that no
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way see that's how the DI that's how the diagram it's like a oh no no no the
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diagram is a little triangle like that there we go okay yes success
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that is how to do it in sort of one minute or less how to
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how to prop up a tablet on a thing oh you can do it the other way too okay so
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you can also set it up uh oh wait no that's the same way as well okay
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so no there's video config and typing config so you take it out you prop this
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thing into here and then you put
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this there aha now now we're in typing
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config so now you can you have a bit of a aure wrist rest thing while you type
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and then the other solution is putting this into here and now it's propped up
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more for viewing videos yes thank you
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for checking out my unboxing my very awkward presentation of how to use it
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and first look at the Versa sleeve as well as the mobile DOC for the TF300
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