Asus Eee Pad Slider Reviews

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Asus Eee Pad Slider
Asus Eee Pad Slider-Honeycomb tablets from all manufacturers, Asus has been one of, if not the most successful. In May and April, the company sold 500 000 Eee Pad Transformers, with another 300,000 in June. So, why Asus and Lenovo, Toshiba, Motorola, or any other tablet makers? Because the Taiwan company understood early on that if it will go toe-to-toe with iPad it must do two things: to distinguish the form factor and at a price. The fact that you can take the Eee Pad Transformer tablet and dock - which adds an eight-hour battery life and keyboard - for $ 550 has made it totally different from not only every other cookie cutter Android tab, but, yes, also the iPad.

But by way of a typical laptop manufacturers, one model is never enough. Slider Eee Transformer Pad is a new brother, and like an older brother to come with a keyboard. Except this time it is attached - 10.1-inch tablet keyboard, as the name suggests, slides out from underneath. It must have some form of differentiation factor and at $ 479 it also has a price. So, Asus has once again nailed the equation with the Slider? Or should it have been quite call it a day with a Transformer? Read on for full review.



Hardware / design


WHAT REALLY SETS APART THE SLIDER IS THE FACT THAT YOU CAN SLIDE DISPLAY up to REVEAL ITS PHYSICAL KEYBOARD

At this point, most of the tablet on my desk looks very similar. And with very similar, I mean they look very similar to the original iPad or iPad 2. However, there is no one better Slider for Apple tablet. While the device has a typical glossy black screen - although the bezel is much larger (more on that below) - the back and the edges are coated with a combination of white and champagne colored, soft-touch plastic. There are also versions of mocha / black, but you know how some of us here can be pumped up about white gadgets.

Of course, what really sets apart Slider is the fact that you can slide the screen upwards to lift the small latch on the back of the top panel to reveal a physical keyboard. This is rather strange that you do not actually push from the bottom of the screen, as is done on a smartphone, but it seems to lift the screen allows the mechanism to slide along fine. Speaking about the mechanism, you can see with just a peek at the side, it works pretty well and it's stronger than I imagined it would. (. Asus said the unit tests must pass a total of 30 000 the number of swings, which consisted of six cycles per minute) Unfortunately, there is no way to adjust the angle of the screen - once appeared in keyboard mode, it is locked at a 45 degree angle.


BOTTOM LINE: THIS SLIDER is more similar to the 10.1-INCH NETBOOK BASIS OF A TABLET

There is no doubt that the design and how to screen tablet Slider slides vertically to reveal the keyboard is very admirable, but unfortunately, it's very uniqueness that causes the entire package to be too fat. Being that this device is completely coated tablet above the keyboard, slider-sized 0.7-inch thick, or what would be the equivalent of two 2s iPad or Galaxy Tab 10.1s stacked on top of each other. And as you might have guessed, also led to consider a 2.1 pounds heavier, that's £ 0.77 more than the iPad and Galaxy Tab 10.1, although 0.8 pounds less than a Transformer. (Pier Transformer happens more severe because the house 24.4Wh battery.) I'm not trying to harp on the dimensions here, but this is a clear compromise of form factor - there is no way to leave the keyboard and a few extra ounces and houses the only weight and cumbersome to continue. The bottom line: The slider is more similar to the 10.1-inch netbook from the tablet base.

For credit, the extra thickness of the slider is not possible to accommodate a full size USB port, 3.5mm headphone jack, microSD card slot, volume rocker, and mini HDMI jack. And yes, Honeycomb better support USB host is allowed to successfully connect a mouse and a USB flash drive. Front edge of the tablet strip house speaker, which does not produce what I call a pleasant listening experience, but hard enough to pump out the audio from YouTube clips. If you want to listen to Pandora or Rdio some time to work I will use the headphone jack.




Camera
YOUR IDEAS WILL HOLD THIS UP AND TAKE A PICTURE IN THE PUBLIC IS INSANE


I will not spend too long talking about a 5-megapixel camera on the back of the slider because the idea that you will hold it and take pictures in public is insane. Not just heavy and awkward, but it just was not any good because the picture quality is beyond disappointing. Every image that I shot, whether they are inside or outside, is rough and slightly blurred. All the evidence you need is in the gallery below. By the way, cameras at the bottom of the keyboard so it touches the surface of whatever you are sitting at the keyboard mode - there are some rubber feet to protect it there. The front facing 1.2-megapixel shooter is what you expect - you will not want to take up a new timeline you shoot with it, but it is good for video chatting or checking your teeth for food.
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Screen
MY MAIN COMPLAINT ABOUT THIS BIGGER SCREEN PANEL


Like a Transformer, the 10.1-inch Slider, 1280 x 800-resolution IPS screen is very high quality and quite impressive for the price. Very wide angle of view, the most important because you will see a display of 45-degree angle (if not slightly larger) at any time due to the fixed position of the hinge. It's also quite bright, though not glowing at maximum brightness as the Galaxy Tab 10.1 or iPad. It's also very handy that you can adjust the screen brightness using the keyboard shortcut (Fn + Fn + B and N).

However, my main complaint about the screen is larger panels. Flanked by a 1.2-inch screen of the vertical frame - or at least, that the measurement of the widest part of the edge of the screen is slightly curved. It is clear that this is a step to accommodate a wider keyboard, but the result is an awkward looking display when the keyboard is hidden and you hold the tablet in either landscape or portrait mode.

Sliding mechanism / keyboard
ASUS SPENT MOST TIME ITS FACILITIES AND NON-tune KEYBOARD ITSELF FROM THE END OF THAT CHEAP

However, if you buy the Slider, you bought for appeal has always had a physical keyboard to your tablet. As I mentioned before sliding mechanism feels quite solid - metal sheets which props up the back of the screen and spring feels very tight - and there is no wobble to the screen after it is in keyboard mode. As I have also mentioned several times now, you can not adjust the angle of the screen, but it means that the screen locks into place quite firmly. However, it seems like Asus spends most of his time perfecting the means and not an end because of the keyboard itself feels cheap. The entire panel is made of plastic and the gray button itself reminds me of a toy you get in a Happy Meal in terms of construction. There is a click plasticy when your fingers and elbows to attack the surface of the entire panel. Overall, I prefer the keyboard Transformer in terms of build quality.
Tablet Android

You would be hard pressed WALK FROM THIS TABLET KEYBOARD WITH OPTIONS
Beyond the disappointing development of the keyboard, chiclet layout reminiscent of what you'll find in an average netbook, and while it is narrow, I can type this entire review in a very fast clip in the Office of the Polaris. I also can enter the device at the inordinately small table at Starbucks, so there are some advantages to the narrow dimension. Even better, Asus has incorporated some key specific Honeycomb, including home, back, and the search button. Specific keyboard shortcuts, including Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V, to work as you expect. Integration with the OS solid, though, I must say when I was really missing from the dock touchpad input Transformer - back and forth from keyboard to touch screen can get a little tiresome.

Of course, typing on a physical keyboard would be the quickest method of text input, but Asus also includes its own software keyboard is a little more friendly in appearance than the Google version. The keyboard has line numbers and the keys are slightly rounded. If it is not your thing, you can always switch back to a stock offering or physical panel. In essence, you will be hard pressed to run out of options this keyboard with a tablet.




Software
THE KEYBOARD WITH GOOD enough to play OPERATING SYSTEM


Slider running the latest version of Honeycomb (3.2) with some minor adjustments from Asus. The most obvious tweaks come with a slightly redesigned home again, and finally the application buttons, keyboard software, and unique "MyWater" wallpaper pictured above. Actually lower the water level after the battery runs out. This is a very cool trick, but it causes the tablet to feel sluggish, especially when changing screen orientation, and the real possibility of causing the battery to drain faster. Beyond all that, Asus bundles a lot of the applications themselves, including MyNet (assistant DLNA), MyCloud (including unlimited storage for one year), MyLibrary, and @ Vibe. Splashtop MyDesktop MyCloud included in the application for desktop remote control, and while it can be quite handy with a form factor, which is a bit slow when I try to control a Windows 7 laptop. In addition, the need for a PC and Slider to be on the same network, which sort of defeats the purpose of the whole.

Besides all that, you're looking at the experience of Honeycomb familiar, and as I mentioned above, the keyboard playing quite well with the operating system, devices morphing into more of a workhorse of most of the tablets out there. I would not say it was a "laptop replacement," but certainly worthy of the moniker "netbook replacement". I am able to write the whole of the assessment on the system simultaneously listening to a Pandora, check my Gmail, chat in Google Talk, and periodically to look at things on the Web. This is more than capable at multitasking, although I must say that I want to handle navigation between multiple programs Honeycomb better.

Of course, before I end the software, I should add a note now-standard Honeycomb ecosystem. In fact, every time I review one of these tablets, I hope there will be a better application in the market and I will no longer have to add this section, but I continue to be disappointed. Yes, there are applications that you need to get by - Twitter and Facebook mobile apps, news reader application (such as Pulse), and kill the game - but very few of them provide in-depth experience of one of their many applications iPad and continues to be unstable. I got two warnings Force Close is always fun in the pen this time.

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Performance, battery
YOU MEAN THE PRESENCE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF KEYBOARD TO PROMOTE THIS WILL LIMIT ITS Multitasking


The slider has the same internal Transformer and most of his colleagues Honeycomb tablets - dual-core Tegra 2 1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of local storage. For the most part, the performance is on par with other dual-core Honeycomb tablet, which means that fresh enough internally to push all the OS and some applications. However, as you may have been obtained from the part of the study, there is some sluggishness seen when it comes to aspects of heavy animation, including wallpaper and widget overloaded. That aside, the presence of a keyboard means you will likely push it to its limits multitasking, but I still found the switch between open applications just fine and runs multiple applications at one time did not matter. The real issue is the stability of only a few applications.

Transformer blew away all the other tablets in terms of battery life due to additional cell pier, but unfortunately, the slider can not claim the same power efficiency. On the Verge Test battery, which cycles through a series of websites and high-resolution images with the brightness set at 65 percent, Slider subsided in five hours and 50 minutes - just ten minutes shy of six hours. That's shorter than the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and iPad, although I could be closer to six and a half hours during ordinary use. This tablet seems to fill up pretty quickly but the placement of 40-pin charging port on the left-back is a strange and charging cord injuries get lodged between the tablet and the keyboard when I snap back into tablet mode. It seems like something that could be solved by placing one end.

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Wrap-up
WHEN YOU CAN GET A BETTER KEYBOARD WITH TRANSFORMER, SCREEN THAT CAN angled to your liking, AND MORE THAN TWICE THE BATTERY LIFE FOR JUST $ 71 MORE, it seems like a no-brainer

When it came to writing the conclusion of the Eee Pad Transformer review, I can confidently say that they are looking for a tablet with the keyboard does not need to look further. But that's just not the case for the Slider. Although it may have a more intelligent form factor and innovative, the fact that the keyboard is always present chunkiest cause a tablet on the market. And even then, the keyboard is not as beautiful as we Transformer or other third-party dock for the iPad. Yes, Slider $ 469 of head-turning solution and one that may be more convenient for those who constantly need a physical keyboard to accompany their tablets. However, if you can get a Transformer with a better keyboard, the screen can be tilted to your liking, and more than twice the battery life for just $ 71 more, it seems like a no-brainer. It's for these reasons that I doubt Asus will sell a lot because it has a Transformers Sliders - but, of course, something tells me we have not seen the last of the Asus tablet form factor and the insane price of one-two-punch.

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