Android 3.1 OTA Upadate For ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Now Rolling

We were pleasingly amazed by ASUS' Eee Pad Transformer. In the world of android tablets, ASUS has  been able to deliver the first Honeycomb tablet which is truly unique in more compared to just appearance and software preload. As the first PC manufacturer to assemble a Honeycomb tablet, ASUS delivered some fresh viewpoint to the game - that had recently been taken over by players from the smartphone industry.

Through a hardware perspective, the Eee Pad Transformer was nothing new. Its primarily plastic assembly helped retain expenses lower but ASUS handled to get the entire device to look and feel fairly decent, apart from some creaking. The form aspect alone was really nice, the Eee Pad felt good to hold. Power Internally by NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoC, performance and battery life were very similar to other Honeycomb tablets we'd reviewed. Not as great as the iPad 2, yet still far better as compared to most notebooks/netbooks. ASUS equally looked at the ideal locations for the display panel: its quality and features compete those of the iPad 2. Actually the one rea lissue about the Eee Pad was that the display is way too glossy. It's not a big issue inside but put on up towards competitor Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 or the iPad 2 and it is annoying.

By preventing the aluminum chassis, ASUS was effective to produce and sell the Eee Pad for $399 - causing it the cheapest Honeycomb tablet on the market nowadays. Value alone isn't what ASUS is putting on however. The actual marketing factor of the Eee Pad is its capability to transform into a 10.1-inch netbook through an optional keyboard+battery dock. Having a street value of $150 and usually obtainable in more low-priced packages, the dock provided us a optimum at one promising future of computing. While a standalone tablet the Eee Pad performed its own towards the competitors, but once docked turned virtually indistinguishable from a low end Computer. Applications such as Polaris Office allow you accessibility to read/write Word and Excel documents, whereas the full keyboard and mouse help make typing long emails or perhaps articles significantly improved. It's not the ideal PC alternative as a amount of file types are still not recognized (Polaris will not enable you to view as more a .pptx file) however it is surprisingly qualified for an OS having its roots in smartphones. The additiona lbattery life you acquire from the dock is moreover much appreciated.

Asus is now rolling for the OTA (over the air) update that's on its way to all Eee Pad users on Monday. Such update could present the Eee Pad Android 3.1, the much awaited time release to Honeycomb that is intended to resolve bugs, increase performance and even enable some new features. Xoom users had accessibility to the update previously this month kudos to it becoming Google's launch device for Honeycomb, but ASUS is not much left.