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Asus Transformer Pad 300 Series Hands-on Review

0. phoneArena posted on 28 Feb 2012, 10:36

The Transformer Pad 300 drops the aluminum for plastic and the price dips a $100 below the Transformer Prime to $399. It’s still a serious computing machine powered by NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 chip, but it’s slightly bulkier. The Transformer Pad 300 is 0.39” (9.9mm) thick and tips the scales at 22.4 ounces (635 g) - that's heavier than the aluminum-clad Infinity Pad...

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1. sregor19 posted on 28 Feb 2012, 12:17

Any idea when these will become available?

2. Commentator posted on 28 Feb 2012, 13:04

Beginning of Q2 I think.

3. c.hack posted on 28 Feb 2012, 14:28 2

5 cores and it still stutters with live wallpaper. Nice hardware, too bad its crippled by Android.

4. ian132 posted on 28 Feb 2012, 16:55

Im srry but what live wallpaper it was static it just changes based on the time of day and this was the dual core model with a chip that isnt even avaible yet. Maybe you can point me to the part of the video where you saw this lag Cuz i thpught it was smooth as butter:p

5. Mario1017 posted on 28 Feb 2012, 22:30

this doesnt have a dual core version...

7. ian132 posted on 29 Feb 2012, 16:11 1

Ya it does because the nvidia quad core doesnt have a wireless radio which the dual core snapdragon chip does. If you were paying attention in the video the tablet was connected to hspa+ meaning dual core

8. Mario1017 posted on 29 Feb 2012, 19:13

No. The 300 is a quad only. The Infinity is a quad core and also has LTE that comes with the DUAL CORE S4 only. And yes the Tegra 3 has a radio that connects to HSPA+, it just does not have LTE.
Either way even if this was the dual core version, it would perform better, it benchmarks A LOT higher.
And also if you would know a thing or 2, the tablet was connected to HSPA+, meaning T3, not the S4 with LTE

9. ian132 posted on 01 Mar 2012, 15:03

Yo come on man read the article there is a lte version shall I quote it for you or can you read no offense. Oh and I rather have the quad core to play games especially with nvidia having there own marketplace with quad core optimized apps. Where as half the games on the android market aren't even optimized for dual core. Plus your right the quad core should be able to do hspa + but the article states that the one with wireless connectivity to carriers has the s4.

10. Mario1017 posted on 01 Mar 2012, 18:53

And I see you also don't know how ICS works, ICS has GPU acceleration. That is the ability to make use of whatever hardware is in in the device to its fullest. That way developers don't need to worry about making the app for each processor or phone.
And I was wrong on the LTE part, and not sure why it works on T3s in some devices and not others. either way the Snapdragon S4 is much better.

11. ian132 posted on 02 Mar 2012, 08:30 1

I just want the games like shadowgun on the tegra 3 but ya your right the s4 is more advanced.

6. Mario1017 posted on 28 Feb 2012, 22:30 2

where did u notice lag....

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