I ordered this product on a Monday and received it the next day. I've had the tablet for almost 2 weeks now and feel compelled to write this review in light of the more nit-picky negative reviews (read unfair) over the past couple of days. This is my first tablet ever and purchased it after watching the tablet wars for some time and made my purchase decision after extensive comparisons to the iPads, Surface and Samsungs. Even considered the Sony version with keypad and the Fire Kindles. Overall, the TF700T beats them all hands down - no question. When one balances price (paid $428 for new), features for the occasional road warrior (mini SD and HDMI ports), long battery life, outstanding resolution for the price (1920 x 1200 wow!), the ability to turn itself into an ultrabook when it is docked with the keyboard when one needs to do serious work and the really nice Android 4.1 OS - it is the best value for money there is given the current market right now.
Where the ASUS TF700T really shines is the amazing industrial design of how the tablet and external keyboard come together to make a very compact Ultrabook with even more battery power in the keyboard and THEN full size SD and USB ports that complement the mini ports on the tablet. Done with the serious work? Just detach the tablet and leave the keyboard dock behind. ASUS really had their thinking caps on when they designed this and beat the hell out of the competition. You can be sure Apple and MS are kicking themselves for not having thought of this design configuration first. Apple is dependent on Logitech for their external keyboard. The Surface has to have it's kickstand open to access the SD port and if you're typing on your lap, well, have fun ....
iPad is fun but a toy because it lacks the practicalities like mini-SD and/or mini-HDMI and an external keyboard when extensive typing is needed or a built-in mouse when more accurate pointing is needed. If you want GPS, tough, you have to pay for the WiFi-Cellular option whether you want the cellular option or not. WiFi alone means no GPS. The TF700T currently only comes with WiFi and Bluetooth and GPS - awesome deal. It's all I need because high-speed cellular data connections are too expensive and can be choppy depending on where you are.
The Surface is clean and .... boring. Really Microsoft boring. Windows is great for my desktop where it belongs. I refused to pay for the lower screen resolution of 13xx by whatever .. it just seemed ridiculous when most of the other tablets were offering much higher HD level resolutions. The Surface tablets also need 2GB of RAM to accommodate the OS, so one would be paying for additional memory to run what seems like an inefficient (read bloated) OS. The TF700T only needs 1GB of RAM with plenty leftover - kudos to Android designers.
Galaxy - not bad but felt big and heavy, almost clunky. Some nice features, but not enough to make me buy it when I had the TF700T available.
I've seen reviews recently that are unhappy about flash players not being supported. The tablet comes installed with a video player and I've played videos on Chrome from Netflix, etc, etc. No problems with speed or quality whatsoever. What is the big deal about flash? Is there a shortage of apps for playing videos on Android platforms? Why the loyalty to flash players? And so because of this ONE feature for which there many perfectly good alternatives, reviewers ding the product heavily. Come on .....
I've not had any need for direct ASUS support so I can't comment that. But not having to call the manufacturer is probably a good thing, I think. The tablet even knows when to update itself. For example, I received it out of the box running Android 4.0. Within a couple of days, it automatically updated itself to 4.1.x and rebooted itself. Smart. And all the apps continue to update themselves.
The negatives - only 2.4GHz WiFi, no 5.0GHz, no MIMO (multiple antennas) and the automatic switch between landscape and portrait formats can be a little oversensitive and sometimes slow to switch but it's not a big irritant for me. If you are impatient and expect INSTANT switching then you will be unhappy, I suppose ....
If you are still reading this review then I suggest you read the negative reviews carefully and you'll realize most them are about one or two issues that really aren't that big a deal after all (unless it's basic product functionality like something not working at all which is product quality) and may not even be a concern for your purchase decision.
P.S. Get the ArmorSuit MilitaryShield as a screen protector, works great.
P.P.S. Forgot to mention the TF700T comes with Corningware Gorilla Glass so the display looks really nice and the ArmorSuit doesn't spoil it at all. Competing tablets don't all come with Gorilla Glass, think about that one.
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Screen bleeding disappeared. very smooth tablet
UPDATE:after ~ 2 months of usage the screen bleeding gradually disappeared. I didn't have any software or hardware problems. Now I can say it is a 5 star product.-------I received my Asus Transformer Infinity yesterday. It runs smoothly without any problems. the screen has no dead pixels or cracking problem.But,There is a screen bleeding problem especially in the right and bottom side. few other reviews also mentioned the same problem. I really don't know how much screen bleeding is normal or unavoidable for for TF700. I uploaded 2 pictures showing the screen bleeding in normal ips (60% brightness) and ips+ modes (100% brightness). it is a deal breaker for me since I am planning to use it also as a e-book, pdf reader in night mode.Please comment if you think the screen bleeding I have is standard for every transformer tablet or it is particularly high for the copy I received.
