After seeing all the Positive Asus Transformer Prime posters,
I've decided to jump on the Positive Transformer Prime bandwagon.
I'd like to ask everyone's help by providing Asus with some notice from users of this forum that the Prime is great.
1) Wifi performance is optimal and better than any other device, even when 1000 feet from the router and going through several lead walls, each which is 1 foot thick.
2) Random lockups are a feature we all look forward to.
3) BT/WiFi Fallout is non-existant and a made up problem
4) SERIAL NUMBER NOT FOUND, ATP users don't need no stinking serial numbers.
5) WIFI and GPS Antenna connections which utilize Pogo-Pin's are perfect. If they somehow become flaky in the future, we users will
(a)pinch the bezel in the right places, (b) keep exchanging the product at our retailer until we get a TF201 that works, (c) wait months for the RMA process to fix/replace the device, or (d) upgrade to the latest Asus tablet.
6) Backlight bleeding has been proven useful when using the prime in dark rooms.
7) Ice Cream Sandwich update freezes and reboots is a small price to pay for having a quad-core tablet.
8) Autoejecting/auto-erasing MicroSD Card Slot - great feature
9) Dead pixels - I'm positive that this is done by design and turning off pixels saves power and extends the battery.
10) There is no need to remove GPS from the specification or provide a fix. GPS works inside my house, in fact I use the TF201 to navigate to the bathroom where I use it on the toilet.
Please join me in my petition to stop any plans Asus may have to begin supporting the TF201. There is no need to respond to those complainers.
Asus, please continue to invest resources in newer and more powerful tablets which generate lots of money for Asus.
Thank You
Wow... About the 6,000,000th post of the same stuff!
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I noticed today that my WIFI was exceptionally slow on my device. Being 4 feet away from my wireless router, i was getting 1-5 mbps speed..
my router has a function that lists connected wifi devices and the assumed connection speed.. it said my Transformer was connected at 58mbps.. so something was fishy
Everything was exceptionally slow, even browsing. after a simple full shutdown and startup it was back to normal. maybe this is the wifi bug some people were having? anyways, a restart made it exceptionally better
anyone else come across this?
Haven't seen this yet but it does sound like your unit has a wifi defect. :banghead: I can say the following two things:
1. The operating channel/frequency does seem to make small differences. Probably noise in my environment.
2. Wireless range seems to be short. I'm getting no where as good of range as my iPhone can. I'd say its short by a good 25 feet or so.
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Look at the face staring at the wall...
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DaRacerz said:
Haven't seen this yet but it does sound like your unit has a wifi defect. :banghead: I can say the following two things:
1. The operating channel/frequency does seem to make small differences. Probably noise in my environment.
2. Wireless range seems to be short. I'm getting no where as good of range as my iPhone can. I'd say its short by a good 25 feet or so.
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well the weird thing, im normally fine. i play was playing spotify (high BW audio) in my driveway (through two walls and total about 50 feet) and was getting great reception.
just had this one issue. weird.
It's not a bug. The 58Mbs is the reported link rate, not the actual throughput. Many people mistake the link rate for bandwidth.
I think some of the lag mentioned (elsewhere) are due to poor wifi connectivity.
Never posted here and perhaps this post isn't necessary but felt compelled. I preordered from Amazon on 11/22 and was salivating for a month until the GPS issues started to be reported. The salivating turned to apprehension. On 1/3 I received the Prime and it is indeed gorgeous. Sadly I'm suffering the same problems as most. No need to beat a dead horse. The GPS issue I can stomach since I have a bluetooth Garmin that works fine with the Prime. However the poor GPS performance is extremely disappointing. Simply transferring files from my laptop to the Prime over wi-fi was much slower that transferring between other devices in my home. In fact so far I'd say it's unusable in that regard. I should add that I'm sitting less than 3 feet from my router when transferring.
Perhaps my expectations were too high but with the keyboard my plan was that this device would replace my laptop for all but the most rigorous tasks. That's not going to happen and now I'm not even sure I'm going to order the keyboard.
BTW BT is weak as well. If all of these issues are indeed due to the aluminum case it's just unbelievable to me that a company could screw up this bad. I'm hopeful that someone comes up with something even if it's just providing instruction on how/where to take a drill to the darn thing. But my expectations aren probably too high on this front too.
In short unless someone has disposable income I'd advise they steer clear and wait for a better offering. I'll likely keep mine until something better appears then I'll be putting it on Ebay.
That's not review, you are beating the dead horse....
justwonder said:
That's not review, you are beating the dead horse....
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Well I guess you're right. A mod can remove and my feelings won't get hurt.
I guess I just wanted to get my shots in on that horse.
ride the dead horse.
a drill won't fix it. you need to point the screen at the router.
the entire foundation of the tablet is built into the aluminum case. everything is screwed into it.
the antennas are on either side of the front-facing camera. want better reception, point the tablet screen in the direction of your router or BT tether
How to Bluetooth tether?
>How to Bluetooth tether?
Put phone in one can and tablet in the other (use bigger can for tablet)
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To activate connection, sing the "Get Connected" song.
Hopefully Sony keeps up with Razor's future Windows 8 gaming tablet http://ces.cnet.com/8301-33374_1-57...-power-of-portable-windows-8/?tag=epicStories
I hope Sony do the below:
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I wonder if Playsation Move controllers can be synced with the tablet at least for the buttons incl trigers at the back, (not the motion interface if too time consuming for them yet but technically could be possible too as we have a front facing camera already) - I hope Sony adds them soon as they are more portable controllers than the regular PS3 controller and their attachment to the tablet itself could be also easily designed at some point.
Also I wish our tablet could do remote play with PS3 as PSP or PS Vita do. Would be so cool if Sony could make it work.
This two things would help Sony Tablet S competing with razor's new Windows 8 gaming tablet:
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Although you're suggestions are certainly a good idea, I don't think we'll see them come to fruition. Razer are a dedicated gaming company. They build devices and accessories for hardcore gamers. Sony, with the Tablet S line, are looking for a completely different target market.
The Tablet S is meant to a jack-of-all-trades device and although the PS Certified and the DualShock compatibility certainly improve its gaming credentials, its still (at its core) a normal Tablet and is far better geared for casual use and, critically for Sony itself, content consumption.
The Fiona has an Ivy Bridge Intel i7 which is likely to be at least quad-core, with the possibility of a discrete NVIDIA/ATI GPU, which is a far cry from the Tablet S's Tegra 2 SoC.
I'd love to see what you mention, certainly, but I don't think we should be holding our breath or anything...
This may not be the solution for you but I got a GlobalSat BT 368 that is about the size of 2 match books longways and thick ways. I use the free bluetooth gps in the market and I now have GPS better than my epic 4g or my wifes 4g touch. In fact I am now thinking about getting a full size navigation program like copilot or sygic any thoughts on a good program
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018YZ836/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details
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Looks good. How long battery last?
Can't tell you from experience I only got it thurs. Its rated at 11 hours continuous use but cuts off after 10 mins. if not connected. If it's anything like a speaker phone with the same ratings and features it will probably need charging every three weeks. 2 hour charge.
I have been thinking about just leaving it plugged up in my glove compartment and on continuously. Once locked it doesn't lose signals for anything that I have been able to try in the house.
HI,
Glad you got your GPS working. I don't know type of phones you have available, but if they are Win6-7 phones, there is a program out there called WiFiRouter (costs, but it works great....use it all the time), then you can use a free program called WAZE that uses online data. I find the routes selected, but the the nice thing is that it is "user-interactive"....that is, users identify construction/police/slow-stopped traffic. It should work great in DC. Other than that, I'd go with CoPilot for now because it's cheap. Magellan and Garmin have operation apps for the iphone, but not the Android Market yet, and those are the 2 companies that I would recommend.
Personally, my current setup is a Garmin 4390 standalone, with WAZE running to let me know where the traffic and cops are. Haven't had the Prime long enough to see if there's any others available....The other company to look at is Tom-Tom.
If you're going to connect the Prime to the internet via the phone, then you probably need to apply this fix, so ad-hoc networks are available. ICS stock has them locked out.
If you have an Android phone, there are apps similar to the WiFiRouter, I'm sure.
Good luck,
Bob
Asus Padfone is coming out & it is shown with a stylus so I wonder if
1.they have done some sort of software offering that might be available that can improve stylus use for us and
2.what their stylus will be like and if it is even theirs?
You can see it
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It's probably just a generic bluetooth headset shaped into a case that doubles as a stylus. Even if it is compatible with any other device, I still wouldn't use it as it defeats the whole purpose of using bluetooth in the first place!
You use bluetooth so you don't have to hold your phone to your ear and/or to listen to music without headphone wires getting in the way, right? so why switch holding your phone to your ear for holding your stylus instead? While at the same time losing your ability to listen to music to boot (even if it's capable, the sound quality would be crappy without an ear bud!) And on top of that, what if you need to take notes from the call you're using your stylus to listen in on...?
It's cute, but I wouldn't trade my S305 or my LG Tone or my PX5's for it. Honestly Asus... -facepalm-
Personally I love the idea. For people who needs to use one they could always buy a proper headset. A stylus-headset is very useful if you are just playing/working with your tablet and you can easily take a call without needing to fiddle with a bluetooth or wired headset.
What I don't like about the Padfone though is how they are using a generic capacitive stylus rather than a proper electro-magnetic resonance stylus. That's pretty much a deal breaker for me. (Unless the Atmel Maxstylus turns out to work on it) Now we have the Galaxy Note 10.1 coming out with a proper stylus but I just love Asus's keyboard dock way too much. Decisions, decisions.
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