 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Asus VivoTab Smart. This is a Windows 8 tablet so it is not an RT tablet which I personally find quite exciting. That means that you are not locked into only the applications that you can get on the marketplace in Windows 8 slash Windows RT. You can install regular desktop applications and use them on a tablet even if they're not designed on a tablet which can give you a lot of flexibility. Asus has kind of been all about flexibility with their tablet offerings giving you the option, I mean with the original transformer to add like keyboard to it and just sort of generally cool stuff like that. So here's the tablet itself it looks pretty much like a tablet so not much out of the ordinary there. In terms of specs it's running an Intel Clover Trail Atom processor, 2 gigs of RAM, it has 64 gigs of solid-state storage as well as, oh check that out it has NFC no way, that's sweet. Okay sorry sorry sorry I got distracted so it has up to an eight and a half hour battery, an 8 megapixel rear camera so that's right there which also has an included flash. I think I'm probably missing some specs here this was kind of amusing to me they have two of exactly the same sticker on the back of the, oh it's in French I get it, I couldn't actually find any difference because none of the specs are actually in French like they just put 2g instead of g small o and yeah did I say Clover Trail because apparently it's Clover View my dad. So it has wireless BGN Bluetooth 4.0, 2 megapixel front camera and that's pretty much it that's all I missed wow I was doing pretty good. Alright so let's go ahead and have a look at what they include in terms of accessories you've got an Asus wall wart which basically looks like any other Asus wall wart and then you've got a USB to micro USB cable that you will plug into that and use as a charging cable so unlike Asus's Android tablets we do not have their custom dock connector see no dock connector on the bottom it is just using micro USB for charging so that's a bit of a departure. They include a microfiber cloth with the unit which is very handy because you will probably want to clean it at some point as well as a quick start guide for how to use Windows 8 so setting up for the first time the Windows 8 lock screen swiping in from the right to get to the charms menu this is super important as well as the Windows or modern or whatever UI they're calling it now the UI formerly known as Metro. Alright, Adam inside it looks like oh no I thought they got away without putting the Adam sticker on the unit itself but they did not it is on the unit once you peel off the plastic covering you will see that sorry this is just taking me a little while to get it it's kind of tricky there we go Asus does such a great job of their tablets I mean they're all gorgeous this one's super light so it only weighs looks like the actual spec is 580 grams which is very very respectable it has a little bit more heft to it than some of the than some of the super sort of ultra lightweight tablets that I've encountered in the past but it's definitely not as heavy as something like an iPad 3 the power button is located up here on the top so I was just pressing that to get it powered on so we can start the startup process on the back as well you can see oh look at that they've handily labeled where the NFC tap is going to take place because it's something like a tablet if you were to for example sync it to a Windows phone then slicks not paying attention there we go if you were to sync it to a Windows phone then it could become a guessing game of where do I actually tap it so they they tell you so that you're going to you're going to know without too much difficulty on the side you find your headphone jack as well as your volume up and volume down on the bottom you find absolutely nothing and then on the other side you find your charging port as well as a whoo is that what I think it is no way to know for sure unless I can open it huh you know what we'll be back in a moment that is what I thought it was we've got HDMI in there as well as micro SD expansion on the side and the time we've been off-camera I've also waited for Windows 8 to boot up so you can see that even though I selected a blue theme during my setup it is actually by signing in to my to my Windows live account or whatever they call it I used to be passport what do they call it now I don't even remember whatever I signed into my Microsoft account so now all of a sudden my photos are showing up my theme is correct and I can access my skydrive and just generally sort of there you go Facebook all that kind of stuff that I have linked together so things are pretty much good and unlike Windows RT devices I can go I can use a browser I can download any application that I desire so I could go and search for I don't know let's search for CPU Z or something like that here so keyboard CPU dash Z because that seems like a cool application to run on a tablet right CPU ID I mean if you guys are familiar with the concept of Windows RT versus Windows 8 then you probably don't need me to explain this to you but I think it's pretty cool anyway so let's do the 1.62 setup version in English download now it's actually pretty snappy overall I'm really impressed with the web browsing experience so far on this atom processor and we're gonna find out exactly which atom processor it is I'd also love for you guys to check out the viewing angle on this IPS panel so I mean Asus again they do such a great job with their tablets of just well building them well it's like how do you how do you say it in a way other than that so they use an IPS panel they use a good quality overall fit and finish to the device actually I didn't mention the back it has a nice rubberized feel to it so there's your there's your speaker on the rear as well I don't think I pointed that out before but it makes it easy to hold on to I think they've also found a good balance of sort of bezel to screen here because it's just wide enough for my thumb to sit here without causing problems with touchscreen stuff that I'm trying to do elsewhere causing interference like if I had a thumb sitting here and I tried to do other things oh yeah we cause problems all over the place no I don't want an ask toolbar next install sure create a desktop icon that should be fine and don't want to view that so let's go ahead and go back to how do I minimize everything I don't even know yeah that should work nope let's minimize it yeah yeah there we go so let's go ahead and try launching CPU Z so let's find out what kind of CPU we got on here oh look at that they're including their Sonic master branding for the onboard sound as well so it should be slightly better onboard sound than you'd normally get on a tablet so there we go we have an atom Z 2760 at 1.8 gigahertz with a core speed of 1792 two cores and four threads with hyper threading our memory is two gigs and it doesn't actually look like it picks up much other information about it which is sort of I guess par for the course CPU Z is not really optimized for these platforms anyway so there's a lot of information that's missing but I think that pretty much wraps it up what's the advantage it's still a tablet it's still super portable the battery life is more like a tablet where they're quoting eight plus hours of battery life which is really awesome compared to previous Intel 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