[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] flight777:
Just been to the ASUS Benelux launch party and I had the chance to talk with the System Marketing manager at ASUS.

I added some more info (RED):

- I asked him about the GPS. He admitted that it is a hardware "failure" because of the aluminum back and that it will never reach the desired standard. However, he said they will NOT remove the GPS from the device and try to fix it a little with some more software updates. But he really pressed on the fact that they will NOT remove the GPS as rumored here...

- There were two ICS tablets present which he told were shipped from the Taiwan developers only for this launch and are send back later this weekend. The development menus were still present and next to the "eco", "balanced" and "normal" mode in the menu, I could also select a development mode. I wondered what this did to the tablet, but after some investigation in the settings menu it turned out that it clocked the CPU cores to 1.5GHZ or 1.6GHZ (see images below). This explains the tablets in the benchmarks ;) Furthermore, there were alot of other development options, like forcing hardware acceleration to all applications (including 2D content). I ask him if the higher clock function will also be available in the retail ICS version, but sadly I won't :( But it shows that the tablet can easily be clocked higher than 1.4GHZ :) I tried to film the menus but the video turned out a bit fuzzy, if you want I can upload it tomorrow to youtube.

- They hooked up the tablet to a 3d tv and beamer and we could play 3d movies and riptide on it :) Was really nice and smooth!!

- Interesting fact he told too: The early development units of the Transformer Prime had a subwoofer built in the keyboard. However, these are removed from the retail versions :(

- I said the speakers were much better compared to the TF1. He explained that they made a design error there as the TF1 did have the same sized speakers but on one side it was in a much more cramped space. Therefore, they couldn't create the same size of resonance chambers as on the other side. This explains the difference in the loudness and bass of the sound on one of the sides like many users reported. He also told that they tried to patch that a little with levelling software, but it was a hardware issue. Therefore, to prevent the same problem, they opted for speakers on only one side on the TP.

- An entertainment dock for the TP will be introduced aswell. This is just some sort of a big speaker with a larger subwoofer where you can attach your prime to.

- Next to the origami sleeve, a full body sleeve will be introduced which will cover the tablet and the dock. That one will cost about €50,-

Maybe I forgot something, so questions... please ask!

Images are really large so I just linked to them:

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/91/201201062000521.jpg

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7373/201201062001011.jpg

VIDEO ADDED (A BIT OUT OF FOCUS) but in the last part you can see a bit of the ICS UI on the TP, I will add another one which show the new task manager:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUDAalMwCuw&context=C3d100a6ADOEgsToPDskKACJiRPST2zNh3foSHjofa