[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] The Janitor Mop:
As an HTC Sensation owner, I couldn't agree more.

The Sensation is known for having poor and unpredictable Wifi performance. In particular, it has a very bad case of death-grip. The GPS is also imo just ok. I was the type who was led to believe that software updates would "fix" these problems, as it was my first Android device and people made it like software updates were like the appearance of some kind of angel that would solve all your problems. The Sensation also has a horrifically poor speaker, and I believed that this too would be solved by updates.

It only took me about a month to realize that all of these problems were hardware issues. I now fully embrace the fact that the Sensation's speaker is just crappy. Some people will say stuff like "install volume+, it's so much louder!" "install a ROM with Beats Audio software!" (which only affects headphone usage and, since I'm on a headphone audiophile forum, I know is just crappy bass boosting software) and all these other band-aid software fixes that don't do anything in reality. The hardware blows and software isn't going to do anything about it.

The Wifi and GPS weaknesses on my phone are also design faults. In the early days of our forum, a lot of people were attributing these things to QC. A lot of the defensive people were saying that their device was fine and everyone else should shutup about their problems. By now, however, it's pretty much universally recognized that the aluminum build of the Sensation was ultimately a design fault that affected all Sensations' Wifi and GPS performance equally. In those early days, some people either A) wanted to ignore this shortcoming of their device, B) had lower standards than most about what constitutes "good" Wifi performance, C) ran really poor tests in order to determine the quality of their Wifi performance, or D) did some combination of the above.

I personally think choice A was part of the combination for most people. Most of the people who ignored the design faults of the Sensation made really unreasonable posts. I would watch these same people make posts in threads about competing phones say stuff like the SGS2 is a pile of s*** (SGS2 is the mortal enemy of Sensation defenders). The most noticeable characteristic of these people is that they focus on the negatives of the other device and at best downplay its positives; if they at all do that, because most of the time they completely ignore the positives. On the other hand, they focus of the positives of their own device and at best downplay its negatives; if they at all do that, because most of the time they completely ignore the negatives. It's basic pick-and-choose logic. To this day you will find people in the Sensation forum that still make the most unreasonable statements about their own device and about others.

If you want a Prime, wait until Asus can PROVE that they can fix the issue. Don't buy one right now with the assumption "a software update will fix it". Don't ever rely on something like that to fix something that history has told us is often a hardware problem. Also, I don't get why people can't admit the shortcomings of something they buy. I got my Sensation and a month later (after getting over my 1st Android device orgasm) thought "geez this thing has a ton of friggen problems and isn't that special. 7.5/10 kinda device for me. I'll make a better, more informed, less impulsive decision next time." It's OK to accept the shortcomings, live on with the device, and enjoy what you can from it still.