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what's up guys it's Lou from unbox therapy and today we're taking a look at the Asus Eee Pad Transformer now this is probably the most unique of the Android tablets that have come to market of recent and the reason it's unique is because it can basically turn itself into a netbook you can take the tablet portion slide it into the keyboard portion and then you're gonna get a trackpad and a keyboard and basically get netbook functionality out of an Android tablet so that's pretty interesting and I can't wait to try it out definitely stay tuned to the channel for the proper review this is just the unboxing so here's that unique portion right here it's got a chiclet style keyboard it looks to be a decent size and it's actually fairly light so hopefully when it's all put together it's not much heavier than a netbook would be we've also got a little bit of paperwork make that a lot of paperwork and then we've got our proprietary USB connector it actually is incredibly reminiscent of the Apple connector the 30-pin that we're all used to as well as a power brick which resembles the power brick that came with my Galaxy Tab 10 one it's almost identical as well so let's get a closer look at the tablet portion of this package and the very first thing I notice is this unique finish on the backside of the unit unlike so many other products on the market that have that glossy finish to the back this one is matte and it's actually got a unique texture hopefully this thing will avoid the fingerprints that were all used to on our glossy devices here's a closer look at the port's we've got a speaker a micro SD and HDMI and a headphone jack this is the right side of the unit and on the left side of the unit we've actually got another speaker so stereo speakers that's a plus a volume rocker and our power switch that's about all that's on that side the back of the unit has a camera of course there's a better look at that unique texture and of course the Asus logo as well the ever-important manufacturers logo here's a camera on the front that's gonna be useful for all your video conferencing needs skype etc so let's get a better look at the keyboard aspect of this package it's a very unusual in fact I never seen anything like this it's light and hopefully once the tablets on there it's not too top-heavy that's something I'm worried about so you got a nice sized trackpad on here as well it'll be interesting to see how that works within Android and it's also got the matching finish to the topside which is cool the unit has a full-size SD card slot as well as a USB port this is a flip-down style allowing you to connect your peripherals of course and on the other side of the keyboard dock we have our same proprietary connector that was found on the tablet itself as well as a battery indicator charging indicator and another flip down style USB now inserting the tablet takes a little bit to get used to you got this little locking switch there and it feels find it kind of finicky at first but I'm sure I'll get better at it after I do it a few times there's a better look at that trackpad and the nice keyboard here with all of your Android specific shortcuts which are hopefully gonna make using honeycomb a little bit quicker there's a better look at that lock switch I was talking about now when it's all together and all hooked up it actually feels pretty good it's not much bigger than any netbook I've really held before and everything is really accessible it actually feels fairly solid the materials in use here are quite impressive in fact so there's how it works you flip it up it goes to sleep and wakes up just like a regular laptop so this will be interesting to stack up against my Galaxy Tab 10 one see how it performs and see if I end up using it more as a tablet or more as a netbook anyway guys until next time thanks for watching