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what's up everyone John rhett endure from TechnoBuffalo here with an unboxing of the newest Android 3.0 tablet on the block this is the Asus Eee Pad Transformer let's go ahead dig in and see if there's more than meets the eye I'm sure I'm the only one that's ever made that joke alright so this is a demo unit sent by the folks at Asus not sure how your packaging is going to come but if you order it presumably it'll look very similar if you are looking to pick one up for yourself you this will be available at retail on the 26th of April pricing is going to be 399 for the 16 gig $4.99 for the 32 gig and 149 for the docking station I'll show you what that is in just a minute to see epad Transformer bring some pretty cool things here to the tablet world so go ahead and use the obligatory unnecessarily large knife I'll make some also obligatory jokes about not cutting off my finger go ahead and rip on the tape let's see what we have inside so here is the retail packaging of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer rented the specs in just a moment push that off to the side here is one of the coolest things actually about the e Pad Transformer this is a keyboard dock and looking forward to showing you this as well so push to the box off to the side go ahead and take a look at the transformer itself so here it is bring the camera in just a bit a Pad Transformer it's got a picture of the device on the front it's got that typical tablet form factor the slate look let's go I've got an iPad transformer some more images as you pet transformer some more and we got some legal business on the back but that's not what everyone wants to see that's on what I want to see this is the first time I've actually had a hands-on with one of these guys so I am looking forward to it looks like the tape has been opened and here is the Asus Eee Pad Transformer let's go ahead and open it up it feels very light in the hands actually I'll push it off the side for just one moment see what else you're gonna get in the box of your android 3.0 tablet I'm gonna get the required stuff we got a little bit of reading getting started guide tips for using your iPad got a adapter for the wall charger and a proprietary connection cable to USB alright enough of that let's go ahead and look at the transformer itself and because I can hear you all screaming in the comments I'm going to remove the plastic before I start talking about the device so you taught me a little bit about its IPS screen and all kinds of other goodness but I will talk to you about that we don't need any stickers tell us go ahead and take it out of the plastic here is the iPad transformer thing is very very light alright so I'm gonna go ahead and try and boot it up and while it's booting up I will run through the specs power button looks to be on the left-hand side not sure if it's got any sort of charge in it hopefully it's got something alright so the e Pad Transformer there's a lot to like about this guy starting with its 10.1 inch IPS display with the resolution of 1280 by 800 IPS is going to give you a little bit darker blacks and brighter colors and it's going to give you a better visibility in direct sunlight as well as a better viewing angle so you're looking at it from an angle wherever you might be stopped on the screen should look pretty good it is being powered by nvidia tegra 2 so that is a dual-core processor with one gigahertz on each core it's also got a gig of ram that is not a typo or a mistake this has one gig of ram in here storage is either going to be 16 or 32 as I mentioned again price points are going to be 399 and 4 that's 16 or $4.99 for D 32 802 11 B G and n what you sex on the fronts there is a 1.2 megapixel camera and see that sucker right there and if we show its butt we will see a 5 megapixel camera I can tell you I do right up the bat like the camera placement something's gonna be difficult to put your fingers right there and cover it no on the iPad for example I always have my fingers cover at the camera can get quite annoying you've got a micro SD card reader audio I've got the G sensor light sensor gyroscopic a compass GPS flash support multitasking of course you've got some custom issues business going on here you're gonna get about nine point five hours of battery life or 16 hours with the dock the dock had its own battery life in it alright so let's take a look at the device I'll do a hands-on sort a tour of the Android operating system I've done that in the past so this one has some nice additions to it so you've got a volume rocker on the left and right side physical power button that lives there on the left nothing on top on the right hand side got HDMI out there's your charging connector 3.5 millimeter headset jack I also have a microphone on the bottom so if we've got the dock connector as well as some speakers go ahead and kick the screen on one more time there we go well unlock it we should get that nice honeycomb look to it alright so now that we take a look at the tablet let's take a look at why this is actually called the transformer and look at the dock for it which we will unbox push the tablet off to the side if you're interested in picking up the dock here which does have an extra battery it's gonna set you back 149 dollars so go ahead and see if there's a tape to cut here I think there is nope this one does have tape so we'll go ahead and slice through that there we go and from what I've seen what I've read this dock connector is what separates the e pad from the rest of the majority of 3.0 tablets that are on the market or coming out on the market so here it is it is a keyboard at that same look and feel to it a little bit on the heavy side perhaps that's because it's got an extra battery in it some documentation and looks like that's about it'll charge the same way as a tablet so I'll push this off to the side now let's take a look at said duck go ahead rip it out of its plastic I would ggressive Lee regretted laughing and it does tilt them take a look at this you've got a full keyboard almost what you'd see on an Asus netbook or any other kind of netbook pretty decently spaced keys it's not giant Lee full size but you could definitely type something on here you do have a trackpad you've got one physical button actually sir is the left and right click now on the other side of it we've got the looks like there's the charging port and on the other side living under here should be a USB port which is really kind of cool for for storage there's a custom issue software built on here that'll let you drag and drop file and access files right from USB we also have a full SD card slot living right there that you pull that out and show you see push in there we go SD card there's something comical in just a dummy but there is a card in there alright go ahead and dock the tablet and see what this looks like I'll pull back the camera a little bit so this is looking to really bridge that gap between I want to carry a tablet because it's nice and light and I want to do my browsing but I also might have to actually do some productivity that it's habit just isn't going to provide tablets are great for media consumption that's daily media creation looks like this is aiming to fix that so clicking on the dock connectors and everything right there let's go ahead and drop it in and see if we can find where snicks or at least attempt to see where that connects so goes right in there you can see go ahead and drop it in which it was pretty easy and then when you go ahead and close it I should I leave it open so it lets you know that it is connected now when you close it actually have almost a laptop doesn't weigh very much it's got a pretty nice feel to it it's not the same look on the front and back is also going to charge it once plugged in assuming the keyboard has a charge should come close to doubling the battery life go ahead and open it up and there's some productivity suites in here that let you know that you can use a keyboard for typing when you go ahead and pull a tablet out and run a real quick size four pairs before you with some other tablets that we've got going on I'll go ahead and pull it out of the dump it is relatively easy to do push the dock off to the side and if you're looking to get a tablet I chances are you might be cross shopping so if you are indeed crush of it you might be looking a device like the Motorola Xoom you can see these two right next to each other the zoom feels much heavier the e Pad Transformer is a little bit longer you can see right there a little bit thinner as well and then the zoom you may also be looking at an iPad 2 so here is an iPad 2 for comparison purposes 10.1 inch screens the iPad is a decent amount thinner also feels a little bit lighter and perhaps you are looking at an iPad one even so here is the iPad one for comparison purposes you can see what those look like there so this was a first unboxing and very quick hands-on of the new iPad transformer and the dock number looking forward to getting some hands-on time with this and spending some more loving tablet II greasy fingers with this IPS screen and see how the e Pad Transformer responds hey guys I'm John retinue from TechnoBuffalo see the next video