Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Asus Transformer Prime Review!”.
Hey, what’s up guys mkbhd here and today we’re taking a look at the first tablet running android 4.0.3 ice cream sandwich the first quad core mobile device today we’re taking a look at our full review of the asus transformer prime. First of all, this thing features probably the best build quality of any tablet on the market. To date, it has a spun metal finish on the back, where it houses that 8 megapixel camera and a flash and has a solid array of ports from the volume rocker. The mini hdmi port, the micro sd card slot and the power button up top along with that microphone and on the other side, the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, with the very impressive speaker which i’ll detail in a second and all of that comes in a package just 8.3 millimeters thin, which is thinner than even the samsung galaxy nexus. But don’t let those specs fool you.
It may be really thin and really light, but it feels really good in the hand just messing around with it, maybe in a store or something you’ll probably be able to tell and with build quality like that. It makes it ideal for just lounging back and watching movies or just youtube. Videos on that 10.1 inch, 1280×800 super lcd display and when i say super lcd, that’s not only a complement to the quality and the viewing angles, but the thing also gets really bright. Like 600 nits bright, like most computer monitors, only go up to 300 or 350 nits, so you can read this thing in sunlight, unlike some other tablets out there, but yeah. This has an excellent display. So, of course, what we love about the transformer prime, is the tegra 3 chip that powers this thing, along with liquid smoothness and fluidity.
As you can see, it’s a quad core chip, but it has a fifth core running at a slightly lighter clock, speed of 500 megahertz to take core of stuff, like in the background like swiping between home screens and just running background tasks and little stuff like this And this actually saves battery life a lot. I get great battery life because it offsets all the stuff that would normally be on the 1.3 gigahertz quad-core chip for the more demanding stuff, so android 4.0 is just like. Like i mean, i can’t even describe how good it is it’s like if google hired me to find something wrong with ice cream sandwich. I i’d be fired. It’S it’s amazing.
It’S beautiful everything right from the design right down to the font. The roboto font is absolutely well executed, so props to google for android 4.0 doing a really good job with this one. Now, just as a side note, if you are running an android 4.0 device, go ahead, go to your settings, go down to developer settings and click.
Ok and enable force gpu rendering this is what’s giving me the liquid smooth performance with the apps that aren’t ics enabled yet so stuff like twika. You can go through really smooth scrolling stuff, like spotify all apps, for phones, work, amazingly well, and if you enable this on your 4.0 smartphone you’re also going to get really smooth performance in a lot of apps. Now something i’ve been asked, a lot about was the browser performance on the transformer prime and it’s been a mixed bag.
Sometimes it looks at the website. You’Re visiting it says meh, you know this is a light website and i don’t have to put a lot of horsepower into it, so it doesn’t and you might find yourself on the single core for light stuff, but you might get to a heavy website like this And pinching and scrolling might become more difficult, so you need to trust that that quad core power is going to kick in for those bigger websites and the more heavy tasks and stuff. So i found the easiest way to get good performance.
Uh was to have multiple tabs open, but generally the stock browser was pretty good. There’S some nice features in it from ice cream sandwich and it handles adobe flash just fine, so it gives a pretty nice overall great web experience. Now i’ve also gotten more involved with gaming on the transformer prime, you thought i was going to open angry birds. Didn’T you no, but but this holy buns. This is insane absolutely ridiculous. It blew my mind.
This tegra 3 really shines here, like nothing. Integra 2 could ever cover. In fact, this is one of the one times i wish i still had my zoom, so i could compare and show you guys just how much slower it was playing these same games in a lower quality. I’M telling you the video, doesn’t even do it. Justice, rich high definition, graphics and fast response times to movement and touch are like nothing.
I have ever seen before freaking props, to nvidia for this one. It sounds like they paid me to say that i mean yeah. They probably should have actually but seriously guys look at it. Just look at it.
It’S beautiful uh and even you can see the water splashing on the game in this in the screen is just absolutely beautiful, so you can definitely expect to get awesome. Gaming performance and a great experience from gaming on the transformer prime hands down the best android gaming tablet. I promise in fact, let’s wait a sec.
Let’S, let’s go over this bump in the water here, oh yeah, look at the water! That’S splashed up on the screen that is just awesome. Riptide gp by the way, is the name of the game. If you want to check it out so now you know the transformer prime’s got it all covered. It has an office suite for businessmen and it’s got a ton of great games in the android market for leisure, the ever-growing android market. I hope to get my hands on the docs soon to take a detailed look at that. But until then this is the transformer prime.
You know it’s had a few quirks like people complaining about wi-fi strength and gps lock. The gps issue was fixed with a recent firmware update, while the wi-fi issue, while it’s never cut out on me, has always been a tad little bit weaker because of the metal body and the speaker, the speaker, it’s like someone at asus thought: hey dude. What’S the most inconvenient place, we can possibly put a speaker right here where they hold the tablet right right, where they put their hand. Okay, that’s exactly where we’ll put it, but honestly the speaker has a really good quality that makes up for it and it’s pretty loud.
So overall, really, this is the best tablet money can buy. So, if you’ve got 500 bucks sitting on the monitor underneath you’re watching this video on, you should hand that to me right now or go go pick up a 32 gig wi-fi transformer prime, it’s available in either gray or gold. Hey thanks for watching this full review and if you enjoyed it, please go ahead and give it a thumbs up. I really do appreciate the rating, and thanks for watching and i’ll talk to you guys in a bit peace, you .