ASUS has received their fair share of complaints over the past few weeks. From a lack of product availability, GPS issues, and then the bootloader situation. Today our friends over at Anandtech have torn down the Transformer Prime quad-core tablet and revealed their finding on those GPS issues — but didn’t comment much on the bootloader.
When we saw GPS fix on the changelog for the recent software update we weren’t sure what to think although some reports have said it helped. According to Anandtech the GPS issues are due to a design flaw and can only be tweaked — not fixed by updates. Unlike the original Transformer whose rear was covered in plastic, the Prime has an all aluminum design (and a pretty one) but that is the cause of the GPS issues — even if they are minor.
Other aluminum tablets like the T-Mobile Springboard, HTC Flyer or even the iPad all have plastic “windows” if you will, to let out and enhance the wireless signals. And that goes for more than just Bluetooth. Original reports on weak WiFi can also be attributed to the design although our review unit had an excellent wireless connection. It is worth noting that many WiFi only tablets like the iPad don’t have GPS at all — just a thought for those angry with ASUS or the Prime. So there you have it — I’m still getting one.
Story Timeline
- ASUS Transformer Prime Official Hands-on on Dec 1st 2011
- ASUS Transformer Prime Review on Dec 7th 2011
- Transformer Prime GPS issues arise, activate WiFi to fix on Dec 30th 2011
- ASUS Transformer Prime GPS issues still evident after update on Dec 30th 2011
- ASUS Transformer Prime in-stock at Office Depot on Dec 30th 2011
- ASUS Transformer Prime update brings camera, GPS fixes on Jan 2nd 2012
- Asus responds to Transformer Prime GPS and bootloader issues: deal with it on Jan 3rd 2012
- Asus US: Transformer Prime getting ICS January 12th, unlocked bootloader later on Jan 3rd 2012
- ASUS Transformer Prime rooted — bootloader will have to wait on Jan 3rd 2012
- ASUS Transformer Prime 1-click root and unroot tool released [Update] on Jan 4th 2012
- Device Name : Transformer Prime
- Manufactuer : Asus
- Carrier :
- Announced Date : November 09, 2011
- Release Date : TBA
- Also Known As : Transformer 2
- Screen Size : 10.10 Inch
- Resolution : 1280×800
- Screen Type : IPS+
- Height : 10.35 Inch
- Width : 7.12 Inch
- Depth : .33 Inch
- Weight : 586 Grams
- Battery Type:
- Lithium Polymer
- Battery Capacity : 6579 mAh
- Talk Time : NA
- Stand By Time : NA
- Android OS:
- 3.2.x
- Audio Playback:
- AAC
- AAC+
- MP3
- WMA
- Video Playback:
- h.263
- h.264 / AVC
- MPEG-4 (MP4)
- CPU : Tegra 3
- CPU Clock Speed : 1400 Mhz
- Core : 4
- Ram : 1024 MB
- Internal Storage : 64 GB
- Front Facing Camera :
- Camera Resolution :8 MP
- External Storage:
- MicroSD
- MicroSDHC
- Camera Features:
- Auto focus
- Flash
- 1080p Video Recording
- Sensors:
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light
- QWERTY :
- Wi-Fi:
- 802.11b
- 802.11g
- 802.11n
- Bluetooth:
- Bluetooth 3.0
- Location Features:
- Compass
- GPS
- Wi-Fi location
- FM Radio :
- NFC :
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