There are some people laughed at Apple when this vendor launched iPad. In the beginning, its idea felt so tickling. Its form factor has never been existed before and it’s not something which once attract anyone’s attention.
Secondly, its name is a scorn subject. But see now, market is tablet-literate and market has received this product in various degrees, even when the tablets have funny names.
But there’s no other product caused sensation as large as this one. It’s Android Honeycomb tablet with similar dimension with iPad, but with features which are able to make your laptop seemed old-fashioned.
Eee Pad did this by offering two-parts solution. Its main component is a tablet with 10.1 inches screen and common features used to be offered by latest version of Android.
Its second component – a keyboard with additional price, but directed to make Eee Pad is possible to compete with PC.This Asus System could replace Windows, Mac OS X or Linux laptop. Honeycomb is an advanced mobile operating system, but there are some things about it which doesn’t work as serious computation platform.
The example, copy and paste. It’s never been mainstay feature in smartphone (even Nokia never got any trouble to make this feature works). It needs years for Apple to introduce it. Although it’s able to be operated in cell phone, this feature is never as smooth as PC desktop.
To use Eee Pod just like laptop, you’ll need to do copy and paste inside and outside documents from time to time. It will involve transferring your hand from keyboard into a touchscreen. From the perspective of docked tablet, it’s very hard to do and uncomfortable experience.
Really, plugging the keyboard seems influence how we use this device. User won’t have any trouble when using the tablet, but an additional dock with keypad is a bit confusing, makes user compared it with using a Windows laptop.
Its touch screen is tend to be rare to use, since all things can be done using mouse and keyboard. By similar way where Windows is not designed for touchscreen, Android wasn’t also designed to input keyboard and mouse.
There’s also keyboard shortcut, where we have got used to use it in all desktop operating system. In Android, control + v function isn’t worked and people who commonly use PC can be frustrated. To be fair, it’s early time for Honeycomb and future updates to repair all this shortage.
You can non-activate the trackpad. The bad news is, you cannot turn off the arrow screen.
SD card Socket in tablet part and full-size socket in keyboard dock means you can add storage room, read, and manipulate files from digital camera (Adobe offered mobile version of photoshop for free in Android also upload them to internet)
For office application user, Polaris offers simple software, but existed functional made you possible to use document and spreadsheet anytime anywhere.
The only weakness found is when its full stop jammed. It’s expected because of its keypad not in dock correctly. But it’s only happened once, and it’s not disturbing-bug.
File management is also possible through application included. You can explore whether from micro SD card socket from tablet or SD card of the keyboard. One problem here is its Android file system is based on Linux.It can cause navigation difficulties for user who’s not familiar with the way Linux work and found keyboard’s SD card confusing for few seconds.
Typing in built-in table keyboard feels fun. Its bulged button felt solid and comfortable to be typed. There are shortcut buttons will bring you to general functions in Android and it’s able to help with other functions in transformer such as ability to non-activate the trackpad.There’s no cable Ethernet, so you have to be satisfied using WiFi everytime, something which undoubtly would make it difficult to be accepted in all IT departments. Even so, its wireless performance is really smooth.
You should realize that Eee Pad will soon present its 2G version. It seems like, next, user will miss 3G feature and this feature makes us worth to pay more for Eee Pad by such facilities.
One of this product benefits is its fantastic 10.1 inches screen. Its quality so sharp and bright, made typing and reading activities becomes fun experience.
Asus also able to keep useful Android customization harmonization and unorganized well. Small amount of widgets provided in transformer appears great and offers useful information. In its front home screen, you’ll see email counter and wether widgets. Both are pretty worth to be defended.
If you want to be connected with work, family, and friend when traveling, its front webcame will help you to do it. Google Talk application supports video chat, and there is other application in Android Market which offers similar function. Skype still has not provided video support in Android, but we can assume the feature will be appeared.
Its rear camera, seems less useful, its performance is pretty good, just like adopted in cell phone, but holding the tablet back and forth to take picture of moving picture or idle picture seems unreasonable.
One of the favorite feature in Eee Pad is its strong battery durability. It seems like, the tablet itself cannot compare iPad’s 10 hours durability, but still impressive.
The certain thing, processor used in both tablet means power used, and so that the battery durability also far more impressive than any other laptop. However, by embedded optional keyboard, its power will be increased more and its battery durability also enhanced. It’s always difficult to assure this devices’ battery durability in real world. However, by keyboard dock plugged, you can get more 10-15 hours. Without it, it’s predicted that its battery durability becomes 8 hours, but it depends on what you do on this tablet.
Don’t consider it as your work PC replacement or serious notebook PC, but what it has done is giving you internet tablet which offers more than enough to assure you stay connected and entertained everywhere. If you work much in cloud, you’ll get its advanced and incomparable browser.
As entertainment and something used to make note in exhibition even, meeting, or traveling from office to office, this device is so fantastic, not less interesting with iPad, even it’s more useful.
Although it’s the best Android hybrid in the market, it won’t replace work PC or laptop role, but it’s able to replace Notebook.
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