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Well, at least in Québec.
Yesterday morning I checked the Best Buy .ca site's stock state on the Gray 32GB CBIL (Canadian Bilingual [the box writing]), and lo and behold, there was stock right next to my place. I went to the store AND THEY HAD 6 UNITS AT LEAST.
Right now, the Lachenaie store still has stock, and half of Québec's Best Buy stores have some in stock - if you're a québécois, check your closest store's stock state. Of course, Montréal's "main" BBs are out of stock, but suburbialand seems to have a couple.
Simple heads up for the five or six other canadian frenchies in the forums
Also: I was nice to the salesman and asked him to pitch me the extended warranty. 3y was steep, 2y was 100$, he said right off the bat "I can lower it to 70$". I said "If you can give me juuuust a little better a price on the extended warranty, i'll take it". So I got a 2y extended for 60$. Since the Prime is known to be excellent but not without its issues, you might want to play it safe
should have posted in the Candian thread.
I live right next to Bureau en gros (staples in the village). No luck there.they had grey for a few days but i really want champagne.
I waited two months already,i can 2 wait a few weeks more. Do you see any bug on the bilingual version so far ?
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willoxx said:
I live right next to Bureau en gros (staples in the village). No luck there.they had grey for a few days but i really want champagne.
I waited two months already,i can 2 wait a few weeks more. Do you see any bug on the bilingual version so far ?
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No real bug aside from some graphics tearing extremely rarely (on an ICS-updated). The only difference with the "bilingual" SKU (CBIL) is the fact that there's french documents inside the box and french writing on the outside. That is, like, SO important to the tablet's software
Oh, and GPS sucks balls as always.
So the keyboard dock is in English ?
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I didn't verify the dock, but if it's the CBIL one, the accents/french canadian characters are "secondary". I'll upload a pic.
[Ed] here is what the CBIL keyboard looks like as far as accents are concerned: http://android.cybikbase.com/pics/1328014469917.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0067PLM5E/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Amethyst, Champagne, 32, or 64gb
Local Gamestop & Staples seem to be getting them in stock no problem every few days. Just have to be on the ball and give a quick online store check and put one on hold once a day. I have gotten lucky a few times no prob.
I just hate waiting although some don't mind. I returned one at Staples at 8am this morning due to HDMI out not working. They were out and so were other locations. They said that Staples.com had 48 in stock and they would ship me one by Monday.
Couldn't wait did a store check at Gamestop.com. Said low stock so i reserved one. And got a email that my Prime is ready for pick up .
Gonna go get it soon. ALTHOUGH...... We have only gotten Gray locally, i would really love a Champagne. But i already have the Gray dock
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Local Gamestop & Staples seem to be getting them in stock no problem every few days. Just have to be on the ball and give a quick online store check and put one on hold once a day. I have gotten lucky a few times no prob.
I just hate waiting although some don't mind. I returned one at Staples at 8am this morning due to HDMI out not working. They were out and so were other locations. They said that Staples.com had 48 in stock and they would ship me one by Monday.
Couldn't wait did a store check at Gamestop.com. Said low stock so i reserved one. And got a email that my Prime is ready for pick up .
Gonna go get it soon. ALTHOUGH...... We have only gotten Gray locally, i would really love a Champagne. But i already have the Gray dock
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I have the Amethyst dock too and the Champaign Prime looks fantastic in it. I love the two tone look, it just works!
I wonder what serial numbers they will be, and I wonder if the bluetooth/Wi-Fi issues will be fixed.
I just received my replacement 32GB champayne from Amazon and it's C10KAS sku..
I haven't had a chance to do much with it yet, but when I get a chance I'll test to see if it still has the bluetooth + wifi fallout issue that my previous one did. I -did- test GPS already though, and like the one I returned to Amazon this one doesn't pick up any satellites at all Lol and the reference to GPS is nowhere to be found on the box this time around, unlike the last box.
Otherwise, the screen on this new one is much better, no dead pixels that I can see and only a very very small amount of backlight bleed in one corner; previous one had very visible bleeding in each of the 4 corners.
Hoping wifi performance is better on this one at the very least.
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I -did- test GPS already though, and like the one I returned to Amazon this one doesn't pick up any satellites at all Lol and the reference to GPS is nowhere to be found on the box this time around, unlike the last box.
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Its not on the box but it is on amazon's specs:
Product Description
10.1" WXGA (1280x800) (LED Capacitive)/NVIDIA Tegra 3/1GB DDR2 RAM/32GB Flash Memory/Android 3.2 (Honeycomb)/802.11BGN/1.2MP Front Camera/8.0MP Rear Camera/Bluetooth 2.1/Up to 12 hours battery/G-Sensor/E-Compass/GPS/Light Sensor/Gyroscope/1YR North American Warranty
So you could probably still complain if you wanted to.
Just bought my Prime this week after months of being sold out at Best Buy. I am very very into having a near perfect device. Ive returned my incredible 2 about 8 times until I got one that didn't have light leak on the capacitive buttons. Ive returned 5 rezounds until I got one with red capacitive buttons not pink and didn't overheat.
I may be called crazy but I like my expensive devices free of defects.
Got my Prime expecting to get a defective one with issues listed here on XDA. This thing is flawless. I dont know if they solved their quality control issues or I just got lucky but I'm very happy. Also, GPS locks instantly and works great
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Just bought my Prime this week after months of being sold out at Best Buy. I am very very into having a near perfect device. Ive returned my incredible 2 about 8 times until I got one that didn't have light leak on the capacitive buttons. Ive returned 5 rezounds until I got one with red capacitive buttons not pink and didn't overheat.
I may be called crazy but I like my expensive devices free of defects.
Got my Prime expecting to get a defective one with issues listed here on XDA. This thing is flawless. I dont know if they solved their quality control issues or I just got lucky but I'm very happy. Also, GPS locks instantly and works great
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What's your serial number start with.. is it a C20?
06stang said:
Just bought my Prime this week after months of being sold out at Best Buy. I am very very into having a near perfect device. Ive returned my incredible 2 about 8 times until I got one that didn't have light leak on the capacitive buttons. Ive returned 5 rezounds until I got one with red capacitive buttons not pink and didn't overheat.
I may be called crazy but I like my expensive devices free of defects.
Got my Prime expecting to get a defective one with issues listed here on XDA. This thing is flawless. I dont know if they solved their quality control issues or I just got lucky but I'm very happy. Also, GPS locks instantly and works great
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Dude, screw the GPS. Do speed test 10 times and get the average. Then, play some music files (locally) listening to them via bluetooth headset then do that speed test again and get back to us on how flawless it is. Trust me, I've had three myself all with the same issue. I don't believe anything is "fixed".
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0067PLM5E/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Amethyst, Champagne, 32, or 64gb
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I just placed an order. Since mine is going back for RMA, I have a feeling I'll be missing it so I need something and what better way then to try Amazon. I made sure of their return policy. Can't beat 30 days. And I DO NOT expect a fully working wifi/BT card either. There is no way Asus "fixed" anything in something that Amazon just received. My guess (even if there is a fix) Asus won't have it ready until late March. Yep, takes a long time to get something changed into production.
Dock prices are still ripoff though... Ugh.
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Dude, screw the GPS. Do speed test 10 times and get the average. Then, play some music files (locally) listening to them via bluetooth headset then do that speed test again and get back to us on how flawless it is. Trust me, I've had three myself all with the same issue. I don't believe anything is "fixed".
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I just placed an order. Since mine is going back for RMA, I have a feeling I'll be missing it so I need something and what better way then to try Amazon. I made sure of their return policy. Can't beat 30 days. And I DO NOT expect a fully working wifi/BT card either. There is no way Asus "fixed" anything in something that Amazon just received. My guess (even if there is a fix) Asus won't have it ready until late March. Yep, takes a long time to get something changed into production.
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Uh oh look out.
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Dock prices are still ripoff though... Ugh.
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$149.99 seems like an ok deal to me. Bought mine on Newegg back in January.
I got one locally for $143 new. Odd but hey...
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I purchased mine yesterday from TigerDirect for $599 and it was shipped the same day. Hopefully when it comes i wont have too many issues as far as WiFi goes, don't care about Bluetooth and GPS as much as i do WiFi.
If you cant find one just go to nowinstock.net and sign up and it will tell you know as soon as it becomes available and at what stores, you can also sign up to receive email alerts as soon as it becomes available.
As of this morning dock is sold out across the board.. The only Prime at Amazon is the 64GB champange, and even that is listed as 'in stock March 6th'.
Looks like BestBuy still has the 32GB grey, and TigerDirect has 64GB grey.
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$149.99 seems like an ok deal to me. Bought mine on Newegg back in January.
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Well, was hoping to get 3 Year SquareTrade warranty by buying from Amazon. I think I'm gonna buy elsewhere...
dock and tablet sold out online, according to NIS..
http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/tablets/asus/transformerprime/
of course I'm sure you can get lucky locally if you look hard enough.
I got another one in the mail today.....I did the early sign up and the rep called saying the would ship it. That was months ago, and I got it (I opened it up and posted pics). But today I got another one? Anyone else get 2 somehow?
got none...
I have 2. An engineering sample & one like everyone else has.
Open it up and see if you can mod it to make it moodmore compact
*pokerface*
Y U NO GIVE DONGLE ASUS!?
I got two too, exact same scenario as original poster.
I would of gotten my second one but I moved out of State before It had arrived. Supposedly it's on its way back to the shipper.. Not sure if I want to go through calling up ASUS and explaining what happened:/
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You must have gotten mine. It was shipped on 4/17 but has yet to arrive. Oh well, I've come to expect this level of service from Asus.
I got dual dongles also. A second one arrived today, champagne colored. hmm.... more Asus errors
I wonder what they'd go for if you put it on Ebay?
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yeah i got another one today
I got my second one a few minutes ago. Are these newer ones better quality or something? And I, too, wonder how much they would go for on ebay.
I also jus received my 2nd one..
I have two, but because I got a replacement unit and applied for that one for a dongle. I got a 3rd replacement... I wonder if I could get a 3rd dongle. LOL I was thinking of either selling the extra one or being really really nice and just giving it to someone in a country that wont be getting the dongle...
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I wonder what they'd go for if you put it on Ebay?
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Just looked asking price is $20-$30 USD
I just got my second one today. Even when Asus is doing something pro bono they are making themselves look bad with this tablet. You can not fault them for not trying though. This too funny.
Lot of folks would be happy with just the first to arrive (myself included)....Although, I know if I really want to speed up the shipping from ASUS, all I have to do is buy one off ebay. Then I'll probably have three at my door...
Just received another 2 myself, this makes 4 total for the 2 tablets I have.
Now I heard that they are saying that they are out of stock I wonder why?
I got two as well.
Does anyone that either works for AT&T or has been with them for a while know if they will allow u to exchange a device if the one your turning in has a few nicks on it? I have the white Galaxy Note and was thinking about paying the restocking fee and exchanging it this Friday for the Galaxy S 3 before my 30 days is up. The grey border or whatever that goes around the outside edges of the phone has a couple nicks in the top left corner. Other than that it's flawless and just wondering if anyone knew if they allow exchanges even if the phone has a couple nicks on it. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Hi Tiff!!
Why the hell would you go DOWN in phone awesome ness by downgrading to an S3 from the most awe sum Note?
BTW, I have not read any complaints about ATT giving someone a hard time about returning a note within the first 30 days, but you'll never know until you try it..
Hope you reconsider, since you will miss the screen size, tablet mode, and the s-pen.:laugh:
Hi Tiff!!
Why the hell would you go DOWN in phone awesome ness by downgrading to an S3 from the most awe sum Note?
BTW, I have not read any complaints about ATT giving someone a hard time about returning a note within the first 30 days, but you'll never know until you try it..
Hope you reconsider, since you will miss the screen size, tablet mode, and the s-pen.:laugh:
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Don't get me wrong. I love the big screen and the s-pen but I just think when it comes to hardware the s3 is a better device. Also, I haven't heard of AT&T giving anyone problems trying to return a phone within the first 30 days but I was just wondering if anyone has ever had any problems returning a phone with a few nicks.
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Light Cosmetic damage isn't an issue. The phone will be sent back to Samsung to be refurbished anyway. Thats what the restock fee is for.
[email protected] employee btw.
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Light Cosmetic damage isn't an issue. The phone will be sent back to Samsung to be refurbished anyway. Thats what the restock fee is for.
[email protected] employee btw.
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Awesome. Exactly the person I was hoping would respond(AT&T Employee). Thank you very much.
I'd really like to get a Nexus 9, but it seems like there's no end to the hardware issues people are having. I know HTC has said they've fixed the issues, but is there anyone here who has gotten one in the past few weeks, and if so, were the issues still present? I don't want to get into a loop of sending it back to HTC and them sending it to me with nothing getting resolved. Should I just get a Galaxy Tab S and deal with TouchWiz?
edit: I suppose the title should read "having defects", not "getting defects". Oh well.
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I'd really like to get a Nexus 9, but it seems like there's no end to the hardware issues people are having. I know HTC has said they've fixed the issues, but is there anyone here who has gotten one in the past few weeks, and if so, were the issues still present? I don't want to get into a loop of sending it back to HTC and them sending it to me with nothing getting resolved. Should I just get a Galaxy Tab S and deal with TouchWiz?
edit: I suppose the title should read "having defects", not "getting defects". Oh well.
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I have 2 with no issues at all. I also had the Tab S which is Samsung there for it will never get any updates. Buying any electronic device is a crap shoot.
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nrage23 said:
I have 2 with no issues at all. I also had the Tab S which is Samsung there for it will never get any updates. Buying any electronic device is a crap shoot.
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Did you get those Nexuses recently though? Not getting updates would be the downside to the Tab S, I agree. Lollipop is so nice, but TouchWiz would cover it up even if it were updated.
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Did you get those Nexuses recently though? Not getting updates would be the downside to the Tab S, I agree. Lollipop is so nice, but TouchWiz would cover it up even if it were updated.
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Yes both in the last month.
Well, I ordered one... It had all the hardware defects.
Shame on Google for putting out a subpar product for iPad quality prices.
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Well, I ordered one... It had all the hardware defects.
Shame on Google for putting out a subpar product for iPad quality prices.
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I ordered 2, one white and one black. White one ran out of battery and won't charge or turn back on, tried several chargers. Black one had the "usual" defects... visible light bleed and press-able gap in the back cover. RMAing both, props to amazon for awesome return policy especially during the holidays.
have a white 16gb model ordered 2 weeks ago from amazon. nothing wrong.
Picked mine up today from Currys UK, White 16gb, No issues.... Can't see any light bleeding from the edge of thge screen or atleast no more than my Nexus 7!... It gets warm at the top whilst in use but with a case you wouldn't notice it. The white is my favourite as i think it looks more premium with the silver metal edge.
(Posted from my shiney new Nexus 9)
Guess I'll try getting a white Nexus 9 then, it seems people have the least issues with them.
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Picked mine up today from Currys UK, White 16gb, No issues.... Can't see any light bleeding from the edge of thge screen or atleast no more than my Nexus 7!... It gets warm at the top whilst in use but with a case you wouldn't notice it. The white is my favourite as i think it looks more premium with the silver metal edge.
(Posted from my shiney new Nexus 9)
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Dude this actually helped me a lot, I am looking to get a nexus 9 from currys too.
Still can't decide whether to keep my Z2 and get a nexus 9 OR just sell Z2 and get a note 4 :/
All these issues with the Nexus 9 are making me uneasy
At the end of the day, any issues you have you can march it straight back and get a full refund. Like I said I'm happy with mine although one of my volume buttons is a bit more sunk than the other I did the bleed test last night and its fine, going by the thread on release codes mine is one of the release ones!