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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here every now and then we get the chance to unbox a paradigm-shifting product and we've got that opportunity today with the first quad-core product on the market this is the Asus built epad transformer prime it is running in videos latest Tegra 3 it's been hyped it's been rumored it's been leaked let's go ahead and see if it's worthy of all the hype this is the asus eee pad transformer prime alright so here is the asus eee pad transformer prime and all of its pre unbox glory a Suzy pad transformer prime you have a picture of their vice with its optional keyboard dock there you've got some information on what it can do but we're going to run through all that we've got a profile shot let's go ahead and pull off the top of the box doesn't have any sort of cellophane or plastic on it inside you've got a little bit of cushion to protect it in shipping and here is the asus eee pad transformer prime the first Tegra 3 device and right off the bat you can tell this is a much thinner device than previous generation asus tablets feels very solid and surprisingly light in the hands push it off to the side for just a quick second and we'll see what else we're going to get in the box epad transformer prime looks like we've got some specs and stuff in there a little bit of an information card and then in here probably got some warranty information yeah warranty card stuff push all that off not overly exciting got a cleaning cloth because you need to wash your hands and you touch your tablet with dirty dirty fingers so you can go ahead and clean it with this blue cloth here we've got the charging stuff is a proprietary charging cord this guy of course plugs into the wall USB boom goes in is how you do all your syncing and charging and I think that that's that's all we're gonna have in the boats let's take a look at the actual tablet itself and of course we'll run through all the specs on it us you've got some asus branding looks like it's letting you know where all the power buttons are and the rest of the stuff that it can do with the diagram here Tegra 3 quad-core 8.3 millimeter slim super IPS panel we'll talk about all this stuff as we go through let's go ahead after plastic i'm pretty excited to see what take a look at this guy my original review of the asus eee pad transformer the first was actually very positive is one of my favorite and still remains actually one of my favorite android tablets this guy feels world's better from a build quality material standpoint got sort of that brushed metal look and feel and it appears to be a very high quality build so let's push this down here I'm going to go ahead and power it up I should have looked better where that power button was I believe that's where it lived like it's already turned on and let's talk about the specs of this guy there's obviously a lot going on here we will unlock it in the first thing you'll see is it is honeycomb alright so let's talk price and retail availability this guy is going to be available in stores the week of 12 19 we don't have any date for potential 3g model in the US it may be available a week earlier online in addition to major retail outlets to be available on newegg Best Buy staples fries amazon it's also gonna be available at gamestop and this guy is very gaming heavy we'll talk about that in just a few minutes what is this thing going to cost you well it's going to have two choices the 32gb model is going to be four hundred ninety nine dollars if you want to double your storage pleasure it's going to be five hundred ninety nine dollars and the optional docking station we'll take a look at it's going to be a hundred and forty nine bucks operating system wise it is going to ship with Android 3.2 point one honeycomb will be upgraded though to ice cream sandwich we've seen ice cream sandwich actually running on this and a proof of concept that we publish on TechnoBuffalo and that asus has shown us and they have said that it's definitely coming absolutely coming and should be coming soon and of course this is running Tegra 3 which is quad-core it's actually five chords it's kind of interesting so i'll give you the very brief synopsis and we'll do much more on how it works it's got a fifth companion core running at about 500 megahertz that'll do a lot of the background processing for you when you don't need full four cores doing stuff so you're going to get improved battery life at least allegedly and from a battery standpoint here you're actually going to get close to 12 hours of battery life so it's quite surprising you're going to get these hypothetically close to double the performance you're going to get about thirty to forty percent better on the battery side alright so let's talk dimensions of this guy it is eight point three millimeters thin and you can really see that than this it is a very very thin tablet aces clearly spent a lot of time with the hardware making this not only a functional and enjoyable tablet to use but also a tablet that feels good in the hand so the screen that we're looking at is 10.1 inches and that is of course a measure diagonal it's LED backlit and it's got a wxga resolution so that's 1280 by 800 it's a super IPS plus panel and it's got go really glass on it so it should be pretty durable may not be able to put this guy in your pocket with some keys it's got a gig of ram storage as I mentioned it's 32 or 64 there's a lot of camera stuff going on here let's go ahead and flip this guy over to the back side and let's take a look at the camera we have here so that is an 8 megapixel sensor that can do 1080p recording and it's got a front-facing camera which is 1.2 megapixels so you can do all kinds of vanity shots with the front-facing camera if you like so network Wi-Fi only for right now again no word on a 3g US model though presumably we will see it keyboard dock again it's going to be available for 150 bucks that's going to be available in two colors gray or gold alright so let's walk through the tablet and take a look at some of the hardware here so obviously in this particular orientation you've got the camera in the middle the Asus logo is facing the right way in the upper left hand corner if we go ahead and flip it on its top we've got a microphone there is your power and lock button and nothing else lives on the top a little bit of a taper design to it on the right hand side 3.5 millimeter headset jack continue the tour down there's nothing on the bottom here that is through a bit of a cover to keep that dock connection clean you don't have to keep this with you though if you like but that's where it's going to live alright so continuing our tour across the tablet nothing is going to be on the bottom but a lot of stuff is going to be living here on the left-hand side here you've got a user accessible microSD slot go ahead and pop that out tiny go ahead and up your memory if you like button pop that back in that just a dummy card got some microphones there as well continue the tour you've got a hdmi out a little bit right there and a volume rocker up and down got some speakers as well on almost hidden on the left hand side of the tablet go ahead and start this orientation backup course will have a ton of hands-on and impressions with the asus eee pad transformer prime this has been jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo be sure to check us out for all of your tech news and I will see you guys in the next video bye bye you