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what is happening everybody I'm know from TechnoBuffalo calm the long-awaited vs. video is here in this corner the ax sous epad transformer in this corner the samsung galaxy tab 10.1 they're both tablets they both run Android they both now run Android three dot one they both actually now they both support keyboard docks although I only have one of them the Samsung duck we have not gotten our hands on yet the ax Sue's keyboard dock is right here in fact this is a new model the old one during the firmware update process something happened to it so as sous was kind enough to loan us a new one so finally all up-to-date head-to-head which is my favorite which would I recommend to you let's find out technobuffalo is on revision3 new episodes every Monday Wednesday and Friday 5 p.m. pacific time I'm going to talk about both products kind of in sequence you're going through a few different categories so let's start out with performance performance on the two devices is very similar like I said they both now run Android 31 honeycomb the this is the google or the google the samsung galaxy tab 10.1 google i/o limited edition the developers addition you can see from the back there we also got the official galaxy tab Wi-Fi thanks to the folks at samsung PR who lent it to us john has that one right now but this device the i/o edition was just updated this morning the update just came out to Android 31 and the epad transformer has had the three word update for a little while now there was also an update to the keyboard dock for the transformer so in terms of performance very similar they both run nvidia tegra 2 dual core processor they both have 1 gig of ram they both have 1280 x 800 displays slightly different display technology but i found the displays on both devices to be to be really really nice performance has been really good spec-wise is the most notable difference and perhaps you know one of the things that people will look at I don't think it's really all that important in this case but one of the things that catches people's eyes is the spec difference between the cameras on the two devices on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 you've got a 2 megapixel camera in the front on the front a 3 megapixel camera with flash on the bat on the ax seuss on the the on the transformer you've got a point 2 megapixel camera on the front 5 megapixel camera on the back no flash in terms of actual camera quality I i I've yet to find a tablet that really works all that well as a camera because of size awkwardness is taking pictures and the actual performance not that much of a performance between the two in terms of actual photo quality that i found the samsung has a slightly better quality front-facing camera as well and because of the nature of a tablet device i would actually give the edge on it's basically a draw I would give a slight edge to the Samsung because you've got a better front-facing camera and a little bit better video capture but honestly for all intents and purposes it's really it's really a draw also in terms of the hardware where the ax seuss gets a big advantage I think if you're you know the general user might not care the average user I should say but the hardcore user the geeks or if you have a specific purpose the Samsung basically has one proprietary dock connector on the bottom similar to the route that Apple took and other companies have taken with proprietary connectors it's a special 30 pin connector on the bottom the connection to everything from USB cable to power charge and your AC charging to all the accessories including the keyboard dock and other accessories that are out in addition to that or coming out in addition to that you've got a 3 9 millimeter headphone jack up on the top you've got your power switch your rocker switches your dual stereo speakers have you seen John's videos or my my other videos on the 10 one and John videos on the transformer you know a lot of the stuff already but just by comparison on the sous you do have a proprietary connector on the bottom this snaps into the keyboard dock as well as to the cable for charging but then you've also got some standard ports you've got a standard mini HDMI out over here you've got a standard memory card slot over there both devices of 16 gigs of internal storage there also 32 32 gig versions available for more money but then you've got a microSD slot right here on the asuste device which you can use for everything from you know expanding your your memory to hot swapping movies and other media files to transporting files from the device to your computer you know if you do use the camera or other devices I always fail with the port's man so you know possible for more updates or you know hacking and rooting and modding all that kind of stuff so you've got some extra stuff going on port wise and then if you get into the keyboard dock which is a little bit of a funny thing because it's optional it costs more money and there's also you know you have on top of the base price and there's also a samsung dock which I haven't gotten to try it but I will just mention that on the keyboard dock you get dual USB ports you get more battery life which as a separate thing to talk about and then you also get a media card slot here which is even more versatile it's a and a full SD card slot also takes MMC cards as opposed to just a microSD slot so you get you know quite a bit more in terms of standard connectors and possible you know expansion use in that sort of thing off of the transformer particularly if you add the dot but even if you don't the mini HDMI out and the memory card slot right on the tablet gives an edge in terms of expandability and hardware compatibility and that kind of thing a slight edge to the transformer in terms of design like I said similarly sized displays 10.1 inch 1280 800 the displays I found both of them to work very nicely nice bright colors responsive to touch all that good stuff in terms of style you know kind of take your pick again this is the limit edition iowa version which i think is really cool but this is not the one available on the streets the sous comes in this espresso brown color kind of a copper brown color which i think it's pretty nice but the main difference for me is the the size the ax sous is larger the footprint is a little bit large as you can see that I've got the bottom is pretty well lined up a little bit larger in terms of length and then noticeably thicker and heavier now to be fair the ax sous is not going to break your back okay it's not you know an overly heavy tablet it's a tablet it's easy to use I like the widescreen form factor I've talked about this before with tablets I think this is the form factor to go with right now great for HD video viewing and then also great for holding it the long way kind of like a pad of paper for reading scanning through web pages and two thumb typing as well I find very convenient but everything that's great about the ax sous is even greater so to speak on the tab one because it's thinner and it's lighter and this thing to me is just one of the sexiest if not the sexiest piece of tablet hard work out there right now you know it does i've heard people say with the black border and the chrome trim it looks a lot like an ipad personally i agree i think it does but so what we're not talking about that now it doesn't matter just on its own it's so thin so lightweight so easy to hold you know one-handed or to throw on your backpack so I would give an edge to the Samsung in terms of overall style and design they're both you know well made I haven't had a problem with either one of them but you know this gets into bang bang for the buck which we'll talk about in a second but just you know price not price not included the samsung is my winter for kind of form factor on over overall hardware design