[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knoxploration:
Debatable. There's MUCH more to a good screen than just brightness and resolution. This new screen *might* be better all-around. It might be better in bright light only. (Some picture is better than none at all.) Or it could easily be worse. We don't know yet.

For me, I seldom find myself unable to read the TF101's screen in any lighting conditions, even outdoors. So unless color accuracy, saturation, contrast and black-level are all as good or better on this new screen than the old one, it might be a downgrade for me. If I had to choose one area I'd have liked to see improved versus the old model, it's not brightness -- it's black level. (In a dark room, the TF101's screen is quite bright even on the lowest brightness setting showing a supposedly completely black screen.)

The oleophobic coating could be a good addition, but I've seen effective and utterly useless oleophobic coatings before. If it works, great. You can't count an oleo coating on the case as a plus for the Prime though -- I've never seen (and never will) a fingerprint on the case of the TF101, but the Prime clearly *needs* such a coating, and presuming the first demo models have the coating, it looks like it needs a better one than what it got.

Agreed. I'd like this, as it looks to be a worthwhile upgrade if the leaked benchmarks are correct.

We can certainly hope it's better. It's BSI, and a brighter lens. Those should help. The TF101's rear camera is awful, so it could hardly be worse. I don't think we can say it's better yet though -- the lens could still have defects (aberration, vignetting, distortion, poor focus, etc.), and in the TF101 I think the worst part of the image quality was down to the image processing (terrible color, poor white balance, etc.) which throwing in a new lens and sensor won't necessarily fix.

I hope it's gone from bad to great, but I'll be surprised. It may just have gone from bad to mediocre.

Here's hoping, but again, Asus were hyping the TF101 as having amazing sound when it came out. (And to be fair, it's not awful, although the speaker placement is abysmal -- right where my hands cover the speakers in a natural landscape-orientation hold.)

Hopefully true, Asus' figures for the TF101 were surprisingly realistic. Remember those are maximum figures, though (lowest screen brightness, near-idle processor, etc.) It remains to be seen how battery life compares in real-world use.

Totally down to personal taste. I could care less about thinner and lighter, the TF101 was fine for me in this respect. I'd rather it worked with the existing dock, so I didn't have to buy one all over again. (And I'm pretty sure it doesn't.)

The color choices aren't as nice as the standard color of the original TF101, if you ask me. It's nice that there's a choice of colors, I suppose.

And how can you claim the Prime is sturdier, when you've never touched one or even seen one in person? If you're basing it solely on the fact that the chassis is metal, think again. I've seen plenty of metal products that were actually weaker than their plastic counterparts. The TF101 is a case in point. The metal used in the frame is incredibly soft and easy to bend / dent, whereas the plastic (other than a tiny scratch where it comes in and out of the dock) looks identical to the day I bought it. How the case is designed is FAR more important to sturdiness than the material choice.

This is stretching, and then some. ICS is coming to the TF101 as well, and you have no proof that it will ship on Prime before the TF101. Both are absolutely equal here.

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Problem solved:

http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-USB-4-Port-Ultra-Mini-F5U407/dp/B000Q8UAWY

There are plenty of tiny USB hubs out there...