Asus has the Transformer Prime tablet, announced. The Prime is powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 3-quadcorechip, weighs 586 grams and is 8.3 mm thick. Like its predecessor, can the Prime be connected to a keyboard dock.
The Transformer Prime is the first tablet powered by the Tegra 3 soc from Nvidia. This chip has four regular Cortex A9-processor cores and an energy-efficient fifth core, which is used in the idle mode to the power consumption low. Asus is not know to what clock speed the chip is running. Furthermore, the Prime about 1GB of ddr2 memory and there are models with 32 or 64GB of storage capacity.
The 10.1″screen has a resolution of 1280×800 pixels, and is by Asus referred to as Super IPS+. Compared to the ips panel that was used in the first Transformer is the maximum brightness 600cd/m2 is a lot higher. According to Asus, is the delay in the registration of vingeraanrakingen just 50ms. That is according to the company is less than the competition. The screen is also equipped with a hydro-oleofobische coating, fingerprints should not change. The same coating is also applied on the outside of the tablet and the dock. The panel is protected by scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass from the company Corning.
The tablet features a micro-hdmi output, a micro-sd reader, a headphone jack, and Asus’ own dock-connector for the connection with the keyboard. Furthermore, the Prime two cameras: a 1.2-megapixelmodel on the front and a 8-megapixels on the back. The latter is equipped with autofocus, an led flash and a f/2.4 lens, and 1080p video recording. Wireless area can the tablet work with wi-fi b/g/n and bluetooth 2.1+edr.
The tablet seems to look strong on the recently introduced Ultrabooks from Asus and has the same metallic finish. In addition, the Prime with a thickness of 8.3 mm, considerably thinner than its predecessor, which is still 13mm thick. The weight of 586g is about 100g lower than that of the first Transformer. Asus has a 25Wh battery built in, which allows up to 12 hours of video watched. The manufacturer took that value, however, with a low screen brightness 60cd/m2.
The keyboard appears to be largely identical to that of its predecessor, but also to the casing of the dock is planed. This now weighs 537 grams and 10.4 mm thick. When the old dock was, respectively 676 grams and 13mm. The dock has an sd card reader, a usb 2.0 port, touchpad with multitouchondersteuning and a 22Wh battery built in.
The Transformer Prime comes with Android 3.2, but Asus hopes to shortly after he in the shops is already updated to 4.0. In the beginning of 2012, with the tablet available in the Netherlands. Exact prices are not yet known, but Asus certainly indicates that this will exceed the prices of the first Transformer at its introduction. Initially, only the 32GB model including the keyboarddock and the loose-64GB-tablet be fed.
