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Asus Transformer Pad TF300T Android Tablet was launched in February 2012. It is running on the Nvidia Tegra 3 T30L processor with ULP GeForce GPU. The phone has 1 GB RAM and 16/32 GB storage of internal storage which is expandable using microSD, up to 32 GB.

The Transformer Pad TF300T has a 10.1 inches WXGA, 1280 x 800 pixels IPS display with a pixel density of 149 ppi. Coming to cameras, it has a 8 MP rear camera and a 1.2 MP front camera for selfies. It has a microUSB port for data syncing and charging. There is a accelerometer sensor present on the Transformer Pad TF300T. It is a single SIM smartphone with support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS too.

The Transformer Pad TF300T runs on Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). It measures 263 x 180.8 x 9.9 mm (height x width x thickness) with a total weight of 635 grams including battery.

The Transformer Pad 300 ships with a 22Wh integrated, non-removable battery compared to the 25Wh unit in the Prime. The 12% decrease in battery capacity obviously reduces battery life compared to the Prime, however I believe the panel further reduces the life on a single charge.

The 300 either uses a less efficient panel, a less powerful backlight, or a combination of both as you need to drive the panel at around 70% of max brightness to hit our standard test luminance of 200 nits. The Prime, on the other hand, is capable of reaching 200 nits at 40%. The net result of these factors is a drop in battery life compared to the Prime, and approximately equivalent battery life to the original Transformer:

ASUS ships the Transformer Pad 300 with an 18W AC to USB wall adapter, although I noticed that the version that came with the 300 is actually a bit shorter than what I got with the Prime and original Transformer. Its power delivery capabilities remain unchanged however. By supplying 18W to the Transformer Pad, the power adapter can perform a complete charge of the 300"s integrated 22Wh battery in a bit under 2.5 hours (remember charge current drops after all cells reach a certain voltage).

The Asus Transformer Prime has been the standard-setting Android tablet ever since it came out last year. It"s well-made and beautifully designed, has a screaming fast Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, and after an update it runs Android 4.0, a much-improved version of the operating system.

At $499, though, the Transformer Prime competes directly with the iPad, and that"s a hard race to win. The new Transformer Pad (TF300T) costs a more palatable $379, putting it in competition with the Galaxy Tab 2, iPad 2, and a couple of other 10-inch tablets. It"s the little brother in Asus"s tablet lineup, replacing the original Transformer as the more affordable option. To get to such an appealing price point, Asus did make a few sacrifices: the Transformer Pad"s processor, display and build quality are all a step below the Transformer Prime. From the keyboard dock to the Tegra 3, though, the Transformer bloodline remains strong.

On every surface but the back, the Transformer Pad is pretty nondescript. As you hold the tablet horizontally, there"s an Asus logo above the top left corner of the display, with a proximity sensor and camera lens centered above the screen. The only other blemish on the front — I call it a blemish because I tried to wipe it off a few times — is a downward-pointing arrow that indicates where you line the tablet up to insert it into the keyboard dock (more on that in a minute).

The Transformer Pad also shoots 1080p video, but I"m not particularly impressed. Footage comes out really soft, and dynamic range is so poor that even slight differences in lighting get blown out in the shot. That"s all fairly normal for a tablet camera, but given the improvements Asus made I expected a little better.

Asus doesn"t change much, either, opting to leave Ice Cream Sandwich as vanilla as possible. Well, let"s call it French Vanilla: the company did redesign the three persistent system buttons and the quick settings menu, but those are fairly minor and cosmetic. There"s a setting added so you can take a screenshot by holding the multitasking button, which is handy. Otherwise, the user experience isn"t changed at all, so you"re getting Ice Cream Sandwich. Which is just like Honeycomb, really, except it works well.

The apps situation is another story. Android 4.0 revamps some of the core apps on the device, and makes them work quite well on the larger screen — like Gmail, which is now an experience completely unrivaled by anything on iOS. Asus adds some non-stock apps to the equation as well, like the Polaris Office suite, the MyNet DLNA app, and a web storage app shockingly called WebStorage. Most will likely sit unopened, but one is quite cool: SuperNote is a nifty note-taking app that lets you combine text, drawings, photos, and more into a single notebook. You can annotate pictures and create scrapbooks, and then export them via email or to the Gallery app.

One oddity: the Transformer Pad"s keyboard dock isn"t compatible with any of Asus" other tablets. In fact, none of the docks are cross-compatible, so if you"re going to get a couple of tablets you"re also going to need a couple of docks.

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.

The 10.1-inch Asus Transformer Pad TF300 aims to reshape the tablet market by delivering top-tier performance at a value price. The device largely succeeds in this mission, delivering performance that’s on a par with its pricier Transformer Prime sibling. However, the Transformer Pad had to make some compromises in its components and display to achieve its goal. And more worrying than those compromises–which include a slightly heavier weight and different materials than what’s found on the premium Prime–were the frequent glitches I seemed to encounter, with no rhyme or reason, while using this Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) tablet.

Priced at $379 for 16GB of storage, and $399 for 32GB of storage (prices as of 4/22/2012), the Transformer Pad is the new value tablet in Asus’s lineup. The Transformer Prime, which was released last December and was the first tablet with Nvidia’s Tegra 3 processor, remains at the top of the pyramid, for now; that model starts at $100 more than the Pad for the 32GB version. (Asus has already announced high-definition, 1920-by-1280-resolution 10.1-inch models, coming later this spring/summer season.)

The displays are different, too. Both are 1280-by-800-resolution IPS panels, but the Prime has a Super IPS+ display with 600 nits of brightness, while the Transformer Pad maxes out at 350 nits. That brightness edge makes the Prime better suited to those who need to use the tablet outside in sunlight. (For more on display specs, see “Digital Displays Explained.”)

I also noticed some other, subtle differences between the two tablets’ displays. Neither model did better than average in our image testing suite, and the Transformer Pad actually bested the Prime at displaying an image of a website, and of an athlete’s hand grips. Of the two, the Transformer Pad has a slightly larger air gap between the touchscreen glass and the LCD beneath; this created a little bit more glare, but it wasn’t as distracting as on some competing tablet models. Images overall didn’t have as much contrast and detail as on the Prime, though the Prime’s display also seemed to be too bright overall.

The Transformer Pad comes with stereo speakers (side-by-side in a single speaker outlet at the back right of the tablet). I found the audio output passable, but unimpressive. Although both models have Asus’s SonicMaster audio technology, the Transformer Pad lacks the Prime’s subwoofer—which would explain why I preferred the Transformer Prime’s audio output. Audio on the Transformer Pad sounded thin and echoey by comparison.

The Transformer Pad measures 7.11 by 10.35 by 0.38 inches, and weighs 1.39 pounds. That makes it a shade thicker than the Prime (by 0.6 inch), and 0.11 pound heavier; but it is also 0.5 pound lighter than the new iPad. I found the Transformer Pad’s size and weight to be an improvement over Asus’s previous low-cost tablet, the Eee Pad Transformer TF101 (0.2-inch thicker, and 1.49 pounds). But the Transformer Pad is still heavy enough that I wouldn’t suggest it for lengthy one-handed reading sessions.

The Transformer Pad comes in blue, white, and red. The blue version, shipping first, will be available this week, while the red and white versions will follow in June, according to Asus.

One of the big hooks of Asus’s Transformer series is that the company’s tablets can use the docking port to connect to the optional $149 Mobile Dock. The Mobile Dock, redesigned to match the Transformer Pad tablet, provides a highly portable option for productivity fiends to supplement their tablet with a keyboard, multitouch trackpad, USB 2.0 port, and SD card slot, plus an additional battery. The dock adds another 1.2 pounds to the overall weight of the tablet, but it’s still an appealing option if you crave the tactile feel that only a physical keyboard can provide.

For the most part, I really like the design of the new Mobile Dock. The keys have a bit more flex than I’d like, though, with the keyboard dipping when I touch-typed my way through emails and documents. I did appreciate the dock’s new touchpad design, which has a single, easy-to-press mouse-like button. Unfortunately, the dock didn’t always seem to work smoothly; the pointer often ended up moving easily when I had not intended it to jump location, an effect I had not experienced with other Asus tablet/dock combinations.

Asus outfits the Transformer Pad with a selection of preinstalled software and several welcome Android customizations, such as redesigned menu buttons and a redesigned settings pop-up that brings frequently used settings to the forefront. Asus also provides its own software, such as Asus WebStorage (with 8GB of free storage), MyLibrary ebook reader, MyNet (for streaming media from a PC to the tablet), and MyCloud (for wireless desktop access), as well as third-party software like Polaris Office 2.0 and SuperNote 1.5 for annotating and drawing.

While using the Transformer Pad, I did experience a few oddities and glitches. Occasionally, I saw a flicker in the display’s edge, and had to do a cold reboot of the tablet to regain control of it. I also had apps freeze on me several times. The tablet ships with Android 4.0.3, and Asus says that it will release a firmware update in the near future (no date specified) to support Hulu. Whether this update will fix the random wonkiness I experienced remains to be seen.

In spite of the stability issues I encountered, the Asus Transformer Pad makes for a good, large-screen, value-priced Android tablet. The extra storage you’ll get will come in handy, but you’ll have to be willing to sacrifice niceties like a subwoofer, a rear-camera flash, and a Super IPS display if you go with this lower-cost model. If you like the idea of extra storage in a tablet at less cost, the Transformer Pad makes a good choice.