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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 microSD card slot and the power button up top along with that microphone and on the other side of the three-and-a-half 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 then even the Samsung Galaxy Nexus but don't let those specs fool you and 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 by 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 chipset 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 one-point three 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'd be fired that'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 twitta you can go through this 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 gonna get really smooth performance in a lot of apps now something I've been asked a lot about was a browser performance on the transformer prime and it's been a mixed bag sometimes it looked at the website you're visiting it says me you know this is a light web site 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 gonna kick in for those bigger websites and the more heavy tests and stuff so I found the easiest way to get good performance 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 gonna open Angry Birds didn't you no but but this holy buns this is insane absolutely ridiculous it blew my mind this Tiger 3 really shines here like nothing in Tegra 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 fricking 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's beautiful anything you can see the water splashing on the game in this in the screen is just ABS meetable 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 ah oh yeah hey look at the water that 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 dock 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 and 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 got 500 bucks sitting on the monitor underneath you're watching this video on you should hand that to me right now or 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