Honeycomb 3.2 android tablet pc

Software

The Prime shipped with Honeycomb 3.2, but in early January, it became the second device to get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. If you have had the pleasure of experiencing ICS on a phone, but not a tablet, just wait until you do. ICS takes what was great about honeycomb and made it even better. ASUS went the extra mile (as do most manufacturers) and added a bit of their own flair on top of ICS. Not to be confused with tacky UI overlays such as http://www.onda-sale.com/ TouchWiz or Blur, the ASUS overlay is subtle and effective. ASUS also included a few of their own widgets that are actually quite useful such as MyZine, weather, email/date, Battery monitor, and a One-click Clean widget. The One-Click Clean widget acts as window that monitors your ongoing applications and allows you to kill them all at once or only the ones you want closed.

As far as bloatware goes, your going to get Amazon Kindle, App Backup, App Locker, Google Books, File Manager, Glowball, Movie Studio, MyCloud, MyLibrary, MyNet, Netflix, Polaris Office, Press Reader, SuperNote, Tegra Zone, http://www.onda-sale.com/buy-products.html WebStorage, and Zinio. Glowball is the only free game that comes with the retail version and I believe they included it to showcase the tablets 3D rendering powers. The game looks amazing and has graphics that are unlike any you’ve seen on a tablet before. Tegra Zone is an app where you will find all the Tegra 3 compatible games in one place. I had to check out Riptide GP and Shadowgun THD, two games that have taken 3D rendering http://www.onda-sale.com/onda-vi40-elite-android-4-0-tablet-pc-8gb.html to a whole new level. Riptide is a wave runner game that has super realistic water effects and when the water hits the screen you could swear there was liquid running down the inside of your display. Shadowgun on the other hand is a first person shooter that has a realistic word in which you can interact and like Riptide, the water effects and subtle ways in which the background changes, will make you feel like you’re really there.

Camera

For those of you who are at all familiar with the ICS camera app you would know that this is Android’s best version yet. Incorporating an on screen wheel next to the shutter button, the camera’s functions and settings are only a thumb http://www.onda-sale.com/onda-vi30-deluxe-edition-android-4-0-tablet-pc-16gb.html swipe away. Settings that can be adjusted within the settings wheel are zoom, flash, white balance, exposure and scene mode. At the bottom of the screen in the camera apps is where you can switch to video camera and panoramic modes.

Tablet cameras to me are worthless, but ASUS decided to go all out with this one. The 8MP rear camera takes pretty decent pictures when taken in well lit situations and the flash provides more than enough illumination when your subject is in a darker area. Unfortunately color reproduction seems to lack a little bit resulting in a bluish/green hues and when taken indoors under fluorescent lighting, seem a bit over saturated. Shutter speed is fairly snappy but don’t expect responsiveness as fast as the Galaxy nexus. Once you are focused on your image it generally takes one and a half to two seconds to actually snap the picture. The video camera performs quite well too. http://www.onda-sale.com/onda-vx610w-deluxe-edition-7-inch-android-4-0-a10-1-5g-tablet-pc.html When in an adequately lit area or outdoors, the lens focuses automatically on what is centered in the display and refocuses on farther objects with a smooth a fluid transition. When using the video camera at night or in a poorly lit area the Transformer prime kind of suffers a bit, making it hard to decipher what is actually being filmed.

Closing

Sure, the Transformer Prime isn’t going to double as your in-car GPS, a point-and-shoot camera, or a definitive laptop replacement when coupled with the keyboard dock, but when used soley as a tablet? Good luck finding anything on the market that compares. This thing rocks. And like I said earlier, after getting all the wrinkles ironed out with software updates, I am hard pressed to find anything to really complain about, especially when I have seen what the other tablet options are these days. I even owned, pardon my french, an iPad 2 , but after getting my hands on the Transformer Prime, that quickly went up for sale on Craigslist.

You have got to give props to ASUS for this one. The prime is a device to be reckoned with, one that all tablets are going to be compared against this year, and a tablet that ASUS should be proud of. The sheer build quality and processor speed provides an experience that is simply unmatched by any other tablet on the market right now and considering you get all this and 32GB of storage for only $499, that’s one hell of a deal. Especially if you’re willing to dish out an additional $149 for the keyboard dock, it’s capabilities are expanded even further. If you are in the market for a tablet, whether it http://www.onda-sale.com/onda-vi30-deluxe-edition-android-4-0-tablet-pc-16gb.html be Android or otherwise, the Transformer Prime is the one to get. I have no hesitations saying it is THE BEST tablet available. Period.