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what's going on Android fans is Clayton Elmer coming at you from the one and only Android authority calm today we're coming at you with another awesome review we've got the Asus Transformer Pad TF 300 T as well as the Asus Transformer Pad mobile dock now the TF 300 T tablet is coming in around $399 and the mobile dock is coming in at 150 so paired together you've got a really good experience that's almost turns the tablet into a netbook like device and it can actually outperform most netbooks due to its hardware anyways let's just get into some of the hardware we've got the royal blue Asus Transformer Pad here you can see it's a really nice design they all went with the swirl design on the back they usually do that the Asus Transformer Prime had that with a metal back now this is going with the plastic back for a cheaper tablet but it does not lack any functionality you can see here it's a nice clamshell design with the mobile dock and it is really nice it's nice and thin we'll go ahead and take the tablet out of the mobile dock just for a moment to show you the look and feel of the tablet now it easily is removed just by sliding this over and you can pop it out get a nice sturdy hinge on the mobile dock there but anyways checking out the Asus Transformer Pad here we do have a nice thin profile it's nine point nine millimeters thick now that's a pretty much industry standard this is a basic tablet thinness compared here to the original Galaxy Tab you can see not too much of a difference the Galaxy Tab is actually a bit thinner not too much heavier anyways they are about the same size tablet the bezels are a bit smaller but the screen on each is a 10.1 inches anyways this is packing a 8 megapixel rear facing camera we've got a 1.2 megapixel front facing camera now the lens on the rear camera is really great as a 5 element lens has a really nice aperture as well anyways the 10.1 inch display has I P s technology in-plane switching means it's an LCD display and coming in with a resolution of 1280 by 800 this also has 10 finger multi-touch support which is a pretty amazing anyways this device is packing the Tegra 3 quad core processor which is actually a 5 core processor in essence the fifth core is just a small little core that's clocked at 500 megahertz used for when you're not doing intensive applications or anything like that so it's a really power saving design anyways it's clocked at 1.2 gigahertz have our connector pin here we've got our two ports to attach to our mobile dock we've got our HDMI port or mini HDMI this is our mini SD port got a volume rocker here we've got our power button the top you have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack have our speaker right here now that's only a one speaker on this device which is somewhat of a downfall in my eyes but it does have the Asus sonic master technology now the sonic master technology is a nice little technology they've implemented some software sounds pretty nice but your hand can somewhat cover the speaker back here when you're holding it in landscape mode that's not necessarily awesome in my book anyways this is running the Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system if we go into the settings go into the about tablet we can see we're running the 4.0.3 I do have a system update available so I'll install that after the video and we might see some newer operating system coming on to this now I have root of this device but this is running the stock firmware I flashed it back to stock it's not rooted anymore everything is 100% stock so anyways it's got a nice user interface we have our isus custom user interface we have our recent window you can kill all of our recent apps that were running right here I've got our home button and then we've got our back just three on screen soft keys we've got a status bar here with our Asus um settings here we've got a performance mode our battery saver mode and then our balanced mode and the performance is what you're going to want to be running if you're playing any games watching some HD video everything will just look nice cut our auto rotate toggle Wi-Fi settings here bluetooth well we can scroll through have our sound settings turn on sync and then I turn on our GPS anyways going into the full settings we have our white eye excuse me Wi-Fi Bluetooth and data usage as we usually do and under the more settings we have Virtual Private Networks airplane mode tethering and Wi-Fi direct we've got our sound settings that display this display is not as enhanced as the transformer prime but it's still really great it still has really great viewing conditions especially when it's turned all the way up you're not really going to need that indoors but I always find IPS displays to be pretty reflective so going down through our settings menu we've got our aces customized settings we can choose which button is actually programmed to take a screen shot we can choose the screenshot file format our performance mode like was accessible from the status bar we have our quick settings in our notification panel we have our system bar lock we have our Mouse and touchpad settings for when we're connected to our mobile dock we also have our battery saving features and we've just got a regular Ice Cream Sandwich features here I'm a regular developer options with 2d hardware acceleration and all that a lot of great stuff so knees will go back we've got a few intuitive apps on the Asus tablet here we've got the my zine widget it's also just it's basically an aggregator of weather emails calendar events your books you've got your browser here and then you have music I have no music on this device okay so let's just pop this device in the mobile dock quickly and get a nice feel for how it interacts with the mobile dock now this is a really quality mobile dock it's a lot better than the other manufacturers that make mobile docks so you can see here we'll compare it to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 mobile dock the Galaxy Tab you cannot actually fold it up it's not going to be a nice clamshell design like a netbook and it does not have support for the newer Galaxy Tab models but it does have raised keys much like the mobile dock for the asus we have our keys coming out of the body here that's always quality we have all of our different shortcuts we've got home here we've got our search as well we can go back with the top left button control our Wi-Fi and Bluetooth from here as well as disabled our mouse pad add and our little clickable dock there we have our brightness settings we can go to our camera browser regular settings just everything is accessible right from this keyboard so anyways once we are plugged in and using our little touchpad here we do have the on-screen Mouse the on-screen mouse has some intuitive gesture support much like most laptops if you use two fingers you can long press and hold an item can also move it around and stuff like that now also if you use two finger gestures you can go right and left fairly easily now that's also um in applications that works so if we're in the Play Store we'll just let that load up we can scroll up and down by simply using two finger gestures and then once in a subcategory we can go left and right with our two finger gestures as well so it's a really intuitive application you can simply click and then you can also double click or hold you know the same as touching and holding by using two fingers stop does add the extra battery life as I said an extra 15 hours um if you have it fully charged as you see our Asus pad is at 92 percent and then we would have our keyboard percentage right there now that's one of the intuitive apps widgets actually from Asus we have all sorts of different widgets here we've got our task manager we'll bring that out and actually set that on our other screen here and like I recently said the my zine application we've got our battery manager here our Asus weather just looks really nice so do our emails and then we have all our usual google widgets there as well now anyways this is the Tegra 3 so let's go to our task manager kill all these apps and then let's do a quadrant test as well as some gaming tests just to show you how good the Tegra 3 does perform so let's make sure all of our apps are clear so we have no no memory being used up we'll turn it on a performance mode and then we'll do a quadrant test see what we get for scores we'll run a full benchmark it's going to let that go we'll return right after this ok so we'll send for our results the Tegra 3 was pushing 60 frames a second which is pretty nice we did get fourth the 49 that's right below the transformer prime it's basically the same thing that Jagger 3 does run really fast now the HTC One X is also running the Tegra 3 it looks like we're pretty even across the board in all areas the CPUs it's a little different now this can be overclocked when rooted and robbed also running a custom kernel which I have done but anyways I will just stick with the stock we'll try and play some games here now the global application was actually pre-loaded on the device and it was made specifically for the Tegra 3 just to demonstrate some would be cool graphics you can also hear our sound our sonic master technology and basically you can see that the curtains are waving and stuff when the ball goes through now that's specific to the Tegra 3 devices my orientations have been off you can see the nice colors and everything kind of reflecting off of the globe all the main feature of this basically the waving curtains courtesy of the Tegra 3 so yeah we are see we have our Nvidia logo up there nice reflections toppling of the barrels and then our big old clown so