Asus EEE Pad Transformer (with dock)

Yeej! Yesterday I read on a Dutch forum that the Asus EEE Pad transformer with dock arrived in the Netherlands. So immediately I drove to Amsterdam to pick one up ;-) And my, my what a fancy device it is!

The specs

The tablet uses the 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, has 1GB RAM, a Gorilla Glass multitouch screen (10.1 inches), 1.2 and 5MP cameras, gyroscope, compass, GPS, HDMI output and so on.

Keyboard dock

The keyboard is little more than a dock with a trackpad and battery (without the dock, the battery life drops to 9.5 hours). With the dock Asus claims a battery life of 16 hours.

Once the dock is attached Android presents a mouse cursor. This actually works very good, especially when writing emails and doing quick navigation.

Micro + SD

The device itself has a MicroSD expansion slot. The keyboard dock includes a SD slot. I have not tried them yet. One of the main reasons for not buying the 32GB version was the availability of the memory expansion slot. The device will cost you 100 euro more for the 32GB version while 32GB of MicroSD memory only cost a much as 45 euro.

System update

After the initial setup I got a notification that a system update was available. So I installed it an rebooted the device. For some reason it gave me a black screen after the update installation so I had to reset it after the update by pressing the power button. When it started the device again I noticed that Android 3.1 was installed on it, yeah baby!

Multiple Google accounts

What I like already is that it is very easy to setup multiple Google accounts and switch between them in application. Both my wife and I will be using the device.

Agenda

The build in Google Agenda is one of the features I use most often to synchronize appointments between multiple calendar. The Agenda app in Honeycomb has a fresh and clean interface that is wel usable on tablet format.

Market

The market app is a bit different in Honeycomb from what I am used to on my Android 2.2 phone. One flaw in the Honeycomb market is that you are not able to rate applications in the market app.

Not all apps are ready for Honeycomb yet. Some apps work but a lot of them need to be updated to work on the 3.x version of Android. I have sent a few crash reports to developers already ;-)

More to come

I have been playing around with it today but it runs very smooth. I will post some impressions later this week or next week.

I’ll Keep you posted!

2 Responses to “Asus EEE Pad Transformer (with dock)”

  1. Ruben says:

    Hey, leuk stukje!
    Goed dat jij hem al hebt weten te vinden. Waar heb jij hem gekocht?

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