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it has taken me forever to do this with all the complications on my channel and whatnot but I am finally unboxing the asou a pad TF 101 transformer this is the 16 gig model and I don't have the keyboard on me today but I am still very excited to bring you this unboxing because even though everyone in their dog has pretty much done it at this point I have not yet and I am still excited the one that I had before when I did a little bit of content on the TF 101 that closer to launch was a demo unit so I did not have a retail box I could not share with you the retail box unboxing experience the inside of the box is black very stylish ok the product itself is there and now let me move it the plastic that holds the product is also black ah there's all the accessories so let's have a look at the accessories themselves the first thing we find is a little epad paper thingamajiggy holder it's a paper holding they're finally managed to spin it up we have a user's manual which is obviously not very complete really you're using android so what you're gonna have to do is you're gonna have to you know browse the forums try things just try things because android what i discovered was a little bit hard for me to get into i spent a fair amount of time with a motorola xoom over the last little while and like doesn't feel quite right at first but once you set it up the way that you like it it's very very natural to use and so this is Android Honeycomb a couple tips for using your iPad so they show you how to use some of the included things including the file manager which allows you to use manage your internal storage moveable devices including the microSD port and removing the external storage devices so there you go there's a little icon there so that's one of the more androids our transformer specific ones you got a charger cable here so that's just a USB charger cable and you also have a wall wart so you've got a power to USB power adapter guy right there now the transformer TF 101 itself actually let's see what a Seuss has to say for itself in terms of what they think are the best features right off the bat here so 178 degrees now a Seuss makes they're not shy about advertising that they are using an IPS panel in here that is covered with Gorilla Glass that is a premium feature IPS panel means you not only have better viewing angle so you can pretty much see what's on the screen even from way over here way over here but you also have better color accuracy regardless of where you're looking at it from so that is a great feature they also playing up to nine point five hours of battery life and that is with the screen at 60 minutes as I recall in terms of brightness and playing back 720p video next SRS 3d stereo sound don't bother coming in socal communities so it does have stereo speakers and they do have software on here that allows you to in theory enjoy a surround sound but my experience with those software solutions in the past is that there's that compelling I would still say though that compared to something like an iPad to having stereo speakers on the unit is a definite plus that is a selling point for sure because using the iPad 2 to watch videos over the last little while it's kind of annoyed me that it only has one speaker and that the speaker is hidden away on the back of the unit next we have a ten finger multi-touch input so you can potentially put both of your hands on it and go like this should you so decide if you want to like fruit ninja it up and you're like ah I just want to hit everything then you can use all ten fingers if you want next you've got a keyboard dock with USB and SD card reader that is optional so that also includes an extended battery like I said I don't have that today but that does use these latches right here as well as this input in order to connect not only the oh yeah no ice already said that the USB SD card reader in the extended battery as well as the keyboard and then it folds up like a laptop and it also acts as a case flash screen protector if there's also 680 grams light really they say six hundred and eighty grams light well I would say it is 680 grams of weight or 680 grams heavy but you know everyone can interpret that the way they desire so let me turn this baby on now like the zoom which is one of the tablets that I have more experience with than this particular one like the zoom the transformer is intended to be used in portrait mode so you can actually here give me a second here grab my iPad so like the zoom the transformer has its webcam as well as its light sensor on the top you can see that the logo here is right-side up when you are holding it in landscape mode so when you compare that to something like an iPad 2 where your camera's here Steve Jobs clearly is expecting you to use the tablet more like how you would use a traditional notepad okay so actually you can see that mine is locked in landscape mode right now or you would be able to see that if I could figure out how to unlock it normally it's over here oh right right because I set up the button so yeah I like I didn't even know how to get it to port to go into portrait mode because I predominantly use it for watching videos actually here's the thing I complained about before where the iPad 2 is only speakers on the back which means that if you're watching videos in a less than ideal environment you are not going to be able to hear very well so let's get back to the TF 101 it's running with a Tegra 2 processor this is so this is something I haven't mentioned yet and this is a huge advantage that a lot of the honeycomb tablets running Tegra 2 have over something like an Apple iPad so you have way more 3d performance out of a Tegra 2 than you're gonna get out of any other chip on the market now there aren't a ton of games that take advantage of it but the titles are rapidly rolling in so even something like fruit ninja looks better on Tegra 2 and I'm not even kidding because the fruit will actually be far more round and less polygon II like this when you're when you're slicing through I mean does it make a huge difference to the gameplay experience no but it's still kind of cool that you do get better graphics graphics out of the Tegra 2 platform now in terms of a few more spec things before I just finish up with the physical look of the unit I've turned it on now okay you've got a 1.2 megapixel camera in the front the camera on the back is a 5 megapixel camera and that is also located in an ideal location for landscape mode you store as you can see once again on the iPad 2 is configured more for portrait use all right and I think that's pretty much it actually okay so physical layout let's have a look at the button so here's our power button here on the side this is a far more ideal location than the one on the zoom in my opinion which is on the back right here I don't bother getting to closest okay I'm just showing general things so on the side here it means that when you're using it whether you're using it like this or like this you can you can kind of reach it whereas when it's on the back it's very awkward to reach up here it's not it's not always not always comfortable so on the top we don't have any buttons at all on this side we've got a microphone port or rather sorry headphone headphone / microphone port so that can be used with the with like a headset style device we have a mini HDMI that is such a cool feature mini HDMI is don't bother getting too close it's okay mini HDMI is great for playing games like like that WaveRunner style game where basically you can go like this and then you can actually watch the big screen at the same time so it does support 1080p output over HDMI finally we have a micro SD card so this is the big reason why very few people are buying 32 gig transformers because you can buy the 16 gig by yourself a cheapo microSD card throw it in there and all of a sudden you've got a bunch more storage now in terms of the oh actually Gorilla Glass what does that mean means you've got a very durable piece of glass on the front and on the back this is a huge complaint I have about the iPad 2 so you can see the back of my iPad 2 I've only had this thing for about a month I've got a big old scratch there that was actually from sliding it across a granite countertop just got just generally the back looks totally grungy and horrible already the back of the transformer I mean it's not real attractive it's brown let's be honest here but what it is is very durable very scratch resistant I guarantee you you know I'm gonna do this I'm gonna take a brand new transformer like this because I don't care because the textured back the textured appearance of the back is going to really mask and really hide things like fingerprints and small surface scratches much better than most other surfaces out there so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the assist rants former TF 101 don't forget to subscribe to Lana's tech tips from on boxing's reviews and other computer videos sorry guys some clarification about the speaker that's cameraman by the way who's visiting us here he's going on to lunch but I can't because I'm busy so these are not the speakers sorry about that that's just a textured pattern on the side of the unit the speakers are actually located here and here on the other side so while that is significantly better than being located on the back it's still not going to give you quite the sound performance of a front mounted speaker actually I don't know if any of these tablets have front mounted speakers so I had originally thought these were on the front they're not so they're small correction sorry guys one more note a soos also advertises one year unlimited web storage that comes with the TF 101 so that's kind of cool