Asus Transformer Pad 300 / Reviews

Great performance, but given the weak screen we’d expect a lower price to match the appeal of its premium-priced rivals.

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The Asus TF300T is easily one of the best tablet devices I have had the pleasure of using. The UI, the hardware, and the keyboard dock all solidify the TF300T as a top contender for today’s tablet race.

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Affordability and versatility, that's what the Transformers Pad series promises.

In terms of performance it is as good as the Prime and you'll be paying a few hundred ringgit less for the same experience.
Also, the keyboard dock makes typing faster and more comfortable and adds a few extra goodies along the way.

The only catch - the TF300T is priced slightly higher than an average 16GB 10in Android tablet but that's probably because it comes with a keyboard dock.

Still, the TF300T was a fun Android tablet to use and we hated to send it back.

Read original review at Mobile88.

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The Transformer Pad 300 offers an attractive package for a reasonable price. £399 will get you 32GB of storage and the keyboard dock thrown in too. The excellent selection of ports, decent screen, competent performance and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich round-off a solid effort from Asus.

Read original review at PC Advisor.

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Asus made a clever decision with the Transformer tablets: it made two tablets at two distinctly different price points, but the differences between the two are small enough that most people won't notice. The people who don't know or care about the difference between 35 and 60 nits of brightness or between a 1.2 and 1.4GHz Tegra 3 processor will likely buy the Transformer Pad, because it's cheaper. Those who want the best of the best will spend a little more and buy the Transformer Prime.

At a slightly lower price point the Transformer Pad would be an incredible steal, but even at $379 it's a great deal for what is really a great tablet. It performs and looks better than the $399 Galaxy Tab 2 or the $449 Acer Iconia Tab A510, and the keyboard dock is a huge advantage as well. To be fair, it's still a hard sell over the iPad 2, which now sells for $399, just because Apple's tablet app ecosystem is so superior to Google's. Asus does have the keyboard docks on its side, though, and Apple's many similar options don't measure up to the ease of use and tight integration.

Don't buy the Transformer Pad to replace your laptop — it won't. And don't buy it for its selection of tablet apps, because Android still lags iOS in that department. But if you want an Android tablet and don't need the very best specs money can buy, the Transformer Pad is a great choice.

Read original review at The Verge.

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In so many respects the Pad is a cut-down version of the Prime, and not very cut-down at that. At present it's only available at its full retail price of £400, which is pretty good considering the quad-core chipset plus IPS panel, and means the keyboard dock is practically thrown in for free. However, the Prime has been on the market some months now, and if you shop around you can pick one up for £440. At that price difference there's simply no reason to buy the Transformer Pad TF300T. Inevitably prices will fall with time, and at £100 less than the Prime it will make a reasonable, cheaper alternative, but for now it's rendered pointless by its still-excellent older sibling.

Read original review at Expert Reviews.

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With its Transformer Pad 300 - or TF300 to give it its model name - Asus has done it again. For under £400 you get a convertible 10in tablet with an IPS screen, Tegra 3 quad-core power, oodles of connectivity and battery life, and a keyboard dock that transforms (if you’ll pardon the pun) it into a genuine productivity tool and basic netbook equivalent. Essentially you get the same smooth 1080p video playback, console-quality gaming and great overall experience as with the Asus Transformer Prime for £100 less, making Asus’ lastest convertible tablet an easy recommendation.

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As a stand-alone tablet, the TF300 is excellent. It's light enough for extended use, and the screen is glorious, full of detail with vivid colour. There's plenty of power here too, with media and games running with incredible smoothness.

Add the keyboard, and you get a whole new way to use the tablet. We're not going to claim this is a laptop replacement, but when you're on a plane for 10 hours, the Asus can cover it all on battery, and you can watch video, play games and do some work. It is, without doubt, the ideal travel companion.

We don't like the menu bar for changing the power profile and Wi-Fi settings, it's a pain and made us want to scream with rage. But aside to that, Asus has only lightly tweaked Ice Cream Sandwich, and we think its clock and weather widget is the nicest you can get for a tablet.

Overall, the reasons for buying a TF300 are many and varied but we struggled to come up with many reasons you shouldn't buy one. So that's a glowing recommendation from us then.

Read original review at Pocket-lint.

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Obviously, we like that the Asus Transformer Pad 300 boasts a price point that’s $100 less than the cream of the crop Transformer Prime – without sacrificing on the hardware. Frankly, many people will find some value in that, especially when it packs the same Android experience and quad-core processor as its fully equipped sibling. However, if money isn’t a concern with your budget, we’d still recommend picking up the Transformer Prime either way, primarily for its impeccable design, and the fact that it’s still the benchmark Android tablet to beat.

Read original review at PhoneArena.

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With this new product, Asus is pushing the power of a high-end tablet lower into mainstream territory. In terms of functionality, it is very fair to think of the Transformer Pad TF300 as a $400 Transformer Prime. This doesn’t mean that the TF300 feels “cheap” at all. It doesn’t, and I would say that if you don’t care much more the “luxury” aspect of aluminum and ultra-thin design, the Asus Transformer Pad TF300 will perform just like a Transformer Prime, and that includes the great user storage possibilities.

Read original review at Ubergizmo.

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