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[Q] Manufacturer UI

I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering: What is the deal with the UI? I've read that it has a custom UI over Honeycomb, other places have said it doesn't, and quite frankly, I can't distinguish a difference between it and Honeycomb through the videos/pictures. Can anyone clarify?

Was thinking the same thing, looks to me like there isn't a diff launcher?
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

I wonder if it comes from the fact that they had a custom UI when the prototypes were running froyo? It looks like stock HC from what i've seen as well.

I read somewhere that it was just a wallpaper and could be disable so that you could use the HC default look and feel. Can someone who has one try this and confirm?
By the way on a side note, I have been reading posts on the HTC EVO pages for over 6 months now but this is my first post on XDA. I'm really excited about this product. I was thinking of purchasing the Xoom but now I'm waiting on the TF101 with dock. My wife has the iPad but that is not for me.

It's basically stock.has a few extra wall papers and a few apps other than that its stock.same music player. Same everything
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Sounds good then. I was on the fence before. I really wanted one but if it wasn't stock honeycomb, I wouldn't have been as happy. Fine though if they just decided to add a couple things in that don't actually change the experience. Now it just needs to come out!!

a bonus is the polaris office for free. I think the guys are right, just some bundled software. I opted away from xoom also. saved 100gbp also.
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Yes it's like stock. The only extras are:
-Pre loaded background
-Pre loaded weather and time/date widgets
-Pre loaded homescreen icons
-Pre loaded asus apps
If you delete/remove those from the screen, it's stock honeycomb.

The home/back/multitask icons aren't stock either. I liked the stock icons, but I can live with it. I'm sure a theme will come around.

[q] which android tablet should i buy???

hi guys,
I wanted to buy an Android tablet more specifically the Motorola xoom but I heard that it wasn't very good sooo what do u guys suggest I buy??? (Not galaxy tab)
Thx

walidhazem said:
hi guys,
I wanted to buy an Android tablet more specifically the Motorola xoom but I heard that it wasn't very good sooo what do u guys suggest I buy??? (Not galaxy tab)
Thx
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tbh i got my hands on most android tablets and i'd say...none of em.
Really, android as it is now is quite good as a phone os, but the tablet version really looks like a work in progress: the ui is insanely laggy, especially with some widget on. The browser (main thing on a tablet imo) is laggy and jerky, i can't stand it. Regardless the hardware all of the tablets i tried behave like that. You can even cross your fingers and hope that ics will fix this all, but frankly i stopped trusting google a few lies ago. If you really want a tablet now you either should go for a cheap android thing, like a nook color...otherwise if i were you i'd look at webos based tablets, ipads, or even at the blackberry playbook which isn't all that bad actually.

Xoom would be a good choice, it was laggy with 3.0 but with the 3.1 it is like butter.

Xoom, but later
Semseddin said:
Xoom would be a good choice, it was laggy with 3.0 but with the 3.1 it is like butter.
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Motorola just got through updating some xooms to honeycomb 3.2. If
you can get one of those, the flash card slot now works, making it
much more useful.

xoom with 3.1 is the winner (anyway, far behind the ipad )

Curious as to why you say "Not the Galaxy Tab?"

Samsung Galaxt Tab perhaps or Asus transformer... but there are only few tablet specific apps so I don't find androids tablet useful (for me).

As people said before, Android on tables feel kinda like it did for phones before 2.1
Laggy and slow.
Hardware vise however, I would go for the Asus Transformer.
Feels really nice and not plastic or slippery.
Personally I am gonna wait until Android gets smoother on tablets since I reckon there will be new and better tablets by then.

How happy are you with your transformer

How happy are you with you TF? I want a 10" tablet and I'm considering the Tf. I'm also considering the Tf prime. The tf1 price will probably come down once the Christmas season is over so now I'm trying to decide on the tf1 or the tf prime.
What I want it to do is be an entertainment device. I'm not using it for spreadsheet or anything like that. I want it to surf the web, watch movies, play games, and in general have fun and kill time with.
What are your thoughts? Are you happy with your purchase?
I have a rooted nook color now and its ok but a little slow sometimes. Anyone have both and can tell me if the Tf is much better?
I have played with a Tf at bestbuy and it seemed laggy at times is this common or was it's memory overloaded with crap from everyone opening different apps all the time?

I love it, with and without the dock. Still I use it only in landscape mode the other mode (what is the name of it?) is slow and laggy indeed... but why would you use that if it is designed for landscape....
I haven't tried any costum rom YET but the video's I saw are fast and very smooth! Check some video's of it, it's called "revolver" rom. Also I think android ICS (4.0) will be much better with dual cores, it's still in "beta" the dual core support...

I originally got it to do one or two things but I've found I have used it a lot more and for a lot more things than I had originally planned. I did get the dock with it, but to be honest it's not something I have really used much yet. Overall I love it and haven't regretted buying it. The wife has stole it on more than one occasion as well. The only lag I've noticed is using in Portrait mode or when using Live wallpaper, but it's not particularly bad, and something that an overclock may fix.

I love it. The only gripe is the fingerprints on the screen but then they all suffer from that. I would not even think about moving to the Prime - this does everything I need and at a reasonable speed and with good battery life. I started out with the Stock ROM but have been on the Revolution ROM for ages. I did not buy the dock (and would not have used it). I use it for ebooks, magazines, mobile email, mobile document editing and a bit of multimedia. To be honest, though, most of my music is on itunes (which i listen to on my iphone - the size is much more convenient) and I tend to watch films on the television!
PS - @Cmdrx3 - with overclocking, there is no lag at all and little effect on battery life.

The overal experience is not always smooth as butter but it's nothing like you can experience when you try an démo model in a store. I don't know what people are doing with those devices but that's not at all how my transformer works.
Now, I'm perfectly happy with my transformer (with dock) there is no major flaw that would make my regret my buy.
But, it's a first version of a product, It was en experimentation from Asus, a brillant one, but still, the transformer have flaws. there is some build hiccup, the screen is good but not perfect, the typing suffer from lagging on some website and it's difficult to watch high definition movie without reencoding first, the microphone is ****ty and cams pretty bad too.
So, my advice, If you can afford it, take the Prime with keyboard dock (the dock is awesome, it's not just a keyboard it's a all in one accesorie, case / screen protection / stand up dock / keyboard / extra battery / additionnal port (I also heard there 's an additionnal speaker in the prime dock for an even better sound, but i'm not sure).
It's looking to be a much much much better device than the original transformer and you won't feel like you bought an already outdated device.
If you can't afford it, i'm pretty sure the first Transformer is still a really good deal, especially if you can find it really cheap. And with the addition of ice Cream sandwich it should get a second youth.

I am very happy with my ASUS Transformer. Support is also good. I am not happy with Android OS. Looks more like smartphone OS on steroids on a big screen, rather than fully functional tablet OS. Browser crashes and it's not smooth. Most apps do not resize properly.
It's a good device for casual browsing and palying some games, but when it comes to doing some work it's not very comfortable. The dock also it's not very usefull. I am having problems writing on my native language (there is no stock keyboard layout). Most of the apps are not optimised to work with keyboard.
I hope ICS makes tablets fully functional. Still my TF looks like a fancy toy.

I can't agree with above comment. I do think honey comb is great and i do work with the tablet and dock in the school and it does a decent job. Of course it could do better especially as i take pics as notes on the blackboard, so higher res camera would help. All in all i am very satisfied with the tab.
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it was amazing before it was rooted, now that its rooted and running revolver rom, its just become out of this world amazing!!!!!
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I thought the new versions weren't rootable.

Novarider said:
I thought the new versions weren't rootable.
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until today.

guys, my first tab was a scroll 7inch tab, then a hannspad, now to this, so iv went from cheap tab to decent tab to expensive tab, so my enjoyment has went from not too good to not bad, to effing amazing, i luckily havnt had any bad experiences with this tab, compared to so many tabs, it is in a league of its own .
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im freakin ecstatic about my TF now that I can root! ah man work cant end soon enough. I cant wait to get home

10/10 now it is rooted. It's like it is on steroids using the revolver rom. 8/10 for the stock rom as i had 2 probs, laggy keyboard on the web browser and web browser closing unexpectedly. Both solved now.

I'm 10/10 with my TF101 and will stay that way as long as their is a line of successor products (Android based NOT Windows 8). That way when it really is upgrade time, I can retire my TF101 and get the current latest and greatest. Other wise I'll have to switch back to a netbook or go pure tablet, once my TF101 is to old.
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How well does the tf101 multitask? I want to use it at work where I will be showing pictures and taking people's info and will need to switch between the two quickly. Will the tf101 do what I want it to or should I get the prime?

You could wait for the Prime.
I'm a TF Owner for 6 months now. I was one of the biggest haters of tablets but count me as converted. I love my TF and can't see myself using any other tablet.

Novarider said:
How well does the tf101 multitask? I want to use it at work where I will be showing pictures and taking people's info and will need to switch between the two quickly. Will the tf101 do what I want it to or should I get the prime?
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Multi tasking is great but our does depend on the number of apps running in the background. But you can easily switch between running apps.
I love this tablet, I an do glad that I opted for the TF instead of the galaxy tab. I use it for hours everyday... Everything from watching hd movies, streaming media, writing invoices and proposals for my business (via quickbooks mobile app) view all my school books with course smart, web surf etc... I barely use my pc our laptop anymore, and when I do need to 50% of the time I remotely operate them with my TF via splash top HD.
Worth every penny I paid. I will get the prime in a few months, but I'll wait til development is established.
Sent from my Infuse... Love it!

so rooting and flashing a different rom really makes a difference speedwise?

fonzlon said:
so rooting and flashing a different rom really makes a difference speedwise?
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its a whole different animal, especially with an ocd kernel.
Sent from my Infuse... Love it!

just finished rooting and flashed revolution hd.
can't believe it took so much time to do that, it's awesome!!

Played with Galaxy note and was not impress...

i drove 45 minutes today cause it seem i made a mistake buying the infinity since i keep reading on how good the galaxy note 10.1 is. Played with it and found myself hating the screen (low res), the salutated colors and the cartoony touchwiz. Even though i own a galaxy S3 cannot live with a touchwiz tablet. Yes great speed but it was not enjoyable because of the lowres screen. I also prefer in a table ASOP just like Asus which keeps a ICS stock look.
What i was impress was seen 2 TF300 next to each other. One running ICS and the other JB. I was shock to see how smooth JB was and how choppy ICS was just like our infinity right now. JB is much more fluid than even the Galaxy note 10.1. Thats when i saw the potential of our tablet when we get JB upgrade and how polish it will be.
thanx for reading.

I hope they'll solve also a lot of issues in ics with jb update. First of all random reboots and Bluetooth audio lag.
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mouse100 said:
I hope they'll solve also a lot of issues in ics with jb update. First of all random reboots and Bluetooth audio lag.
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Jelly Bean adds a lot more smoothness because of the way images are rendered, but don't expect it will resolve all your problems. There will be more Asus updates, and custom roms/kernels will be the key to getting a perfect tablet experience.

eduardmc said:
i drove 45 minutes today cause it seem i made a mistake buying the infinity since i keep reading on how good the galaxy note 10.1 is. Played with it and found myself hating the screen (low res), the salutated colors and the cartoony touchwiz. Even though i own a galaxy S3 cannot live with a touchwiz tablet. Yes great speed but it was not enjoyable because of the lowres screen. I also prefer in a table ASOP just like Asus which keeps a ICS stock look.
What i was impress was seen 2 TF300 next to each other. One running ICS and the other JB. I was shock to see how smooth JB was and how choppy ICS was just like our infinity right now. JB is much more fluid than even the Galaxy note 10.1. Thats when i saw the potential of our tablet when we get JB upgrade and how polish it will be.
thanx for reading.
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I had Galaxy Note 10.1 for about 3 full week. It's darn stable. I got only 5 or so force close during entire three weeks of use. Browser was very fast. But in the end I came back to Infinity because I just cannot deal with non FHD screen. But I truly hope ASUS's future update brings stability and speed to its full potential.
Never saw JB in live so I hope your impression is right, and directly translates to our unit. Especially since they are taking so long to bring update to its flagship model (infinity), all I can hope is they are taking extra time to fix more than simple JB port. Because we know on Zeus, IO can match that of Galaxy Note 10.1 at least on benchmark.

Thank you, this is good to hear. With the additional time that Asus is taking on JB for the 700, one can hope it might be even better. At least the bugs worked out of it.

eduardmc said:
i drove 45 minutes today cause it seem i made a mistake buying the infinity since i keep reading on how good the galaxy note 10.1 is. Played with it and found myself hating the screen (low res), the salutated colors and the cartoony touchwiz. Even though i own a galaxy S3 cannot live with a touchwiz tablet. Yes great speed but it was not enjoyable because of the lowres screen. I also prefer in a table ASOP just like Asus which keeps a ICS stock look.
What i was impress was seen 2 TF300 next to each other. One running ICS and the other JB. I was shock to see how smooth JB was and how choppy ICS was just like our infinity right now. JB is much more fluid than even the Galaxy note 10.1. Thats when i saw the potential of our tablet when we get JB upgrade and how polish it will be.
thanx for reading.
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I'm confused, isn't this the Asus Infinity forum area?

[Q] Galaxy Note 10.1 firmware ?

Hi,
I'm really jealous of the Galaxy Note 10.1 features. What Samsung adds to Android is really irresistable.
I'm even consideringto sell my TF101 and buy a Galaxy Note 10.1 with keyboard addon.
But on the other hand, TF101 is still a nice, robust device with long battery time.
So I wonder, if it is possible to make a custom ROM with features of Samsung Galaxy Note (multi window, popup play etc.)
Can anyone comment ?
Thx.

I'd appreciate any comment. even if negative

I think it is a nice thought, however the issue is that the TF101 is a 20 month old device. There is very little development going on with it, most of the development currently is timduru working on the TeamEOS 4 ROM. The TF101 is a more than capable device, but most developers have moved on to newer and more powerful devices to work on.

frederuco said:
I think it is a nice thought, however the issue is that the TF101 is a 20 month old device. There is very little development going on with it, most of the development currently is timduru working on the TeamEOS 4 ROM. The TF101 is a more than capable device, but most developers have moved on to newer and more powerful devices to work on.
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you may be correct but I don't see any similar development on the newer devices either.
actually nobody seems interested in what Samsung has done with the features of Note (multi window etc.)
so what's the deal ? Is it too difficult to port it ?

decided to purchase a galaxy note 10.1 selling my TF101
in any case it is a better device I believe.
Any contrary ideas ?

The two things holding me back from jumping ship:
I will miss my keyboard dock. A BT keyboard will just not be the same for me.
If I get a new 10" tablet, it is going to be a minimum of 1920x1200 display.
But, that is my opinion. I cannot justify dropping money on a new tablet like the Note 10.1 when my TF101 is still rockin out. But, I can see the desire for the multi-tasking. I am jealous of it, just not enough to sell my trusty TF101 yet...

There is a keyboard for the Note 10.1.
Not bluetooth, directly connected from the 30pin connector. And it is originally Samsung keyboard. Just doesn't have an extra battery like Asus
About the display, you are right. 1280x800 is not just enough for a tablet on 2013. But in any case, there is no other tablet with an S-Pen and Full HD display.