 Welcome to my unboxing of the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700. It's available in a couple different colors including a sort of a dark purple whiny color and then more of like a champagne yellowy color. This is very similar to the Transformer Prime that we saw a number of months ago and bears very little resemblance at all actually to the original Transformer other than the fact that it does support the additional dock accessory which gives you extra battery life as well as a full keyboard. Turns it more into like a netbook-y type thing as opposed to a tablet which is great because it's got tablet kind of battery life with like 15 hours of battery life if you add the additional dock. So there's your warranty information as well as your user's manual which is pretty straightforward. You can pretty much find all the information you need about using Android on the interwebs so you shouldn't have to worry too much about a user's manual. Included accessories are pretty sparse so you've got an Asus wall board as well as a charging cable so it still uses the same dock connector as the original Transformer did. Just like that. So that's where your data and your power are going to come from. And it includes actually an exceptional microfiber cloth. We have a couple of these in the Tech Tip Studio. They actually work really well. Let me go ahead and yoink that. Alright moving right along. So what is special about the Transformer Pad Infinity? I think I actually charged this already so it should be working and should be pretty much ready to go. A couple things. Number one is the display. So it's, hold on give me two seconds guys. So the big improvement is the display. The Transformer Infinity uses a 1920x1200 that is full HD plus a little bit because it's 16x10 display that gives you almost the same pixel density as the iPad 3 although not quite. It also uses an unprecedentedly fast Tegra 3 processor. The quad core processor in here runs at 1.6 GHz in quad core mode and 1.7 GHz potentially in boost mode. This doesn't necessarily increase the GPU speed but the extra CPU speed and the fact that it's using 1GB of DDR3 memory at 1600 MHz means even with Ice Cream Sandwich it feels extremely snappy when you're browsing and it is very, very, very fast, very responsive and actually yeah that's really nice. This is my first time actually using the device so just outstanding. So let's go back to home. A few more things. So this is really cool. They've got an IPS plus mode for the panel so you can either take it right down to super, super dark. You can have sort of a, pay attention, you can have sort of a happy medium, you can crank it or you can crank it even more. So IPS plus mode is for outdoor readability. So if you're sitting next to a window, if you're outside, IPS plus mode is going to give you the contrast and the brightness that you need in order to not have any difficulty reading text or watching a movie or doing whatever else that you're doing. Now this one's still running Android Ice Cream. Oh okay let me get connected to WiFi here guys. Speaking of connecting to WiFi, that's one of the things that the Transformer Pad Infinity actually improves dramatically over the Prime. So it's been observed anecdotally that you can get up to several times the data rate using a Transformer Infinity versus a Prime at distance from your wireless access point and the reason for that is they've made a subtle change to the design. So instead of an all aluminum back with their concentric circle, actually quite beautiful looking design, they've added a plastic strip at the top. That plastic strip allows the wireless devices inside including your WiFi and your GPS to communicate more effectively with the outside world. So the issues that plague the Transformer Prime owners are over for Transformer Pad Infinity owners. Do I want to add a Google account? Okay. Let's take a look at the externals actually while we're at it. So it's got a completely redesigned camera with a flash as well as a microphone in. It's still 8 megapixels though so nothing's really changed on that front. Micro SD is still there. It's available in a couple of configurations, 32 and 64 gig. And you've got micro HDMI as well as your headphone out jack. Down here you see the docking ports for the keyboard dock as well as the power and data port. On this side you see not a whole lot. And on the top you've got your volume rocker switch as well as your power button. And that pretty much takes care of it. So feel wise, still very light, still very thin. So they haven't added a ton of thickness like Apple did going from the iPad 2 to the iPad 3. And there's advantages and disadvantages to that. So they're using a more powerful Tegra 3 processor. They're using a higher resolution screen. That means there's more to drive for that 25 watt hour battery. That means you're going to see about a 15 to 20 percent decline in battery life in certain applications such as web browsing or watching videos compared to the existing Transformer Prime. Whether that's a trade off you're willing to make is up to you. You still will get about 9 to 9 and a half hours of battery life out of it. Hence their 9 and a half battery spec. So whether that's acceptable to you is totally your own decision. Personally I would go for the more vibrant higher resolution screen. It's also extremely high contrast versus having the extra maybe hour to an hour and a half of battery life. We're using Corning Gorilla Glass 2 which means that it's incredibly scratch resistant as well as impact resistant so you're less likely to have it shatter or break. And moving right along. Okay. Aha. Sonic Master Audio. So the audio is pretty loud. Let me actually find something to play back for you guys so that we can experience the audio ourselves. How about like everyone's favourite Canadian superstar. Let's go with this one. Alright yeah Justin Bieber Vivo. Let's like crank it up. Slick's really excited about this. He loves Justin Bieber. Look how great Bieber looks in HD at 1080p slick. Slick's all like getting all excited right now. Oh that's the power button. Oops I meant to go for the volume button. Hold on hold on hold on. I haven't bothered him enough yet. You still have to stay focused over here. There we go. Wow this is actually kind of a terrible song. I've never heard it before. Oh wow it got even more terrible. Okay fine I'm done with that. So the speaker's on the back. Only one speaker, mono speaker. So if you do cover that up while you're listening to music or watching terrible music videos then you'll have to sort of enjoy the muffled sound that you get out of it. I would have preferred to see a stereo speaker set up but it's not the end of the world. And as long as you got it propped up against something where you're not totally muffling it or you hold it up here or you hold it down here or you hold it sort of like that. As long as you're not holding it wrong then you'll be fine. So I've got demolition ink running and no I don't want it to post about my progress on Facebook. Are you kidding me? No I don't want open faint. I especially don't want broken faint. Ah campaign. Here we go. Right start. And see how quick the loading is. I'm just kind of curious now. I also loaded the global demo on here so we can see what kind of performance we get out of that. I'm expecting it to be pretty much you know what you'd expect from a Tegra 3 processor. There we go. Let's just kind of pan around a little bit. So buttery smooth. That's really really nice. Especially when you compare to the jelly bean tablet, the Nexus 7 that we took a look at a little bit earlier. So there's that. Let's load up the global. Loading seems faster as well. I don't know if that's a function of the faster memory or the fact that maybe Asus has implemented slightly faster flash for the storage. I'm not sure but both global and if I could get it to go. Okay, yeah, both global and demolition ink seem to load faster on this tablet than they did on the Nexus 7. So what happens if we hit Mr. Clown over here? I don't know. Okay. I'm not going to overthink this but there we go. So that pretty much does it. It's fast. Oh, cancel. No, no need for flash player. Flash player is going away. If you're really married to having flash player on your tablet you might want to stop doing system updates at this point speaking of which. Postpone. Quit bugging me about this. Let's see how the web browser feels because really that's a big... That's nice. Rotation. We got a bit of a delay going on there. Well hopefully it gets a Jelly Bean upgrade at some point because Jelly Bean is so buttery smooth against the project butter name. So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Transformer Pad Infinity. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos and if you were curious as to how much thinner the Infinity is compared to the original Transformer it's about like so. Very significant. Don't forget to subscribe.