yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Asus Transformer TF700] Svashtar:
Woohoo. I am nagging all major shops in Slovenia for availability and I got a reply from one of them that they actually have them but not yet listed on the web. So, I sent them few questions (memory size, color, dock) and am now waiting for the info on that. If I decide to order it could be in my hands by the end of the week.

Oooh, happy day :D

I think the price is the highest so far, as far as I could track this thread, but I want it so badly I simply don't mind :cool:, and I know I am stupid to buy it, so I won't even mention the price.

But what the hell, I'll live only once, why not treat me some candy :silly:
[Asus Transformer TF700] delirii:
Asus delays Infinity and raises its price

In Australia, for the moment, the news are not really good : Asus delays the Infinity (about a month more to wait) and raises its price (around 100$).

And only the 64Gb model appears to be sold there.

www computerworld.com.au/article/429551/asus_delays_transformer_pad_infinity_raises_price/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=sectionfeed&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Clearly, if there is no 32Gb, Wifi-only model in France at a 600EUR max price, I'll give up and look at the Nexus 7 (even if totally different) or the new iPad + keyboard.
[Asus Transformer TF700] undercover:
On holiday in Lithuania atm. Just checked local Asus website, 2599ltl which equals to 604gbp , 64gb, with dock. In stock now. Not a bad price by the looks of it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] mezzyg:
There's a seller on ebay selling them for 629 with dock in either colour with delivery worldwide, it comes from Asia so expect a high bill from customs
[Asus Transformer TF700] thephreak99:
Tf700 arrived at netshop.no I Norway! (It's the black ones to the left in the picture. Don't know how many or with/without dock yet.

Wow... Wow.. Just gotta say... I got this pic from netshop.no facebook page, and the Managing Director, Svenn Aage Lysebo replied to me that there was 14 units without docking and 30 arriving tomorrow. But the one with docking arriving in about two weeks time. My order is nr 11 for the one with docking. But he replied to me personal and split the order so I would get the tablet now and the docking later, for the same price.

For all my norwegian nerds out there: THAT is what I call service. :D
[Asus Transformer TF700] Svashtar:
I got an answer from the shop I sent some questions to.

They only have amethyst grey color, which i don't want.

Did anyone actually see/buy a champagne one anywhere?

Norway, Switzerland?

Thx
[Asus Transformer TF700] Gewebekomplex:
Anyone who can confirm this issue? Unfortunately a little blury.
[Asus Transformer TF700] tommedema:
Sounds like you need to return yours.
[Asus Transformer TF700] t3ej4y:
This good man is right :thumbup:
[Asus Transformer TF700] stubbeb:
Yes, in Denmark a shop has it in stock.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Gewebekomplex:
This only happens sometimes when i unlock my device. And i cant return it :D because it isnt on stock anymore. Dont want to wait.
[Asus Transformer TF700] thephreak99:
Just got mine. Works like a charm

, :-)

Mine is champagne. From netshop.no
[Asus Transformer TF700] timrock:
Any blurry issues as reported above?

Sent from my Xoom using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2
[Asus Transformer TF700] cool_scorpion:
What store did you get it from? Are they open to online purchase?

Hey there congrats on ur new toy... can you states which store u got it from, and whether they allow online purchases and ship overseas?
[Asus Transformer TF700] thephreak99:
I don't have any problems like that.
[Asus Transformer TF700] shadow071506:
Thanks for the quick response... I hope that we could somehow go side by side with the US release this July.. but I guess August might be the safe answer for Singapore release for now..
[Asus Transformer TF700] n-j-f:
If you want it without the dock, try easynotebooks.de. They had a few yesterday and they ship internationally. 629€ plus shipping. Not cheap but available. They also have grey with dock for 739€ plus shipping.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ajdisse:
Just been added to bhphotovideo.com

You can add your email address, they'll notify you when they have stock.

Can't order it, no pricing, sounds like they'll do a first in first served when they have stock. If I had to guess - I know they had issues with Prime pre-orders/timing/release, so suspect they're not playing that game again.
[Asus Transformer TF700] n-j-f:
and probably a keyboard with English AND Chinese characters.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Alkzn:
I recieved my tablet right now. Its the champagne gold version. It's really silver in reality. It looks great. Haven't gotten around to test it too much, but the screen looks nice. Also the wifi is great.
[Asus Transformer TF700] tommedema:
Where did you order the gold ("silver") version?

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It's not normal and unless you don't plan to use this device for more than a couple of months, I'd definitely return it.

You will regret it otherwise.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Alkzn:
I ordered it from Ps.no, but I think all the Norwegian stores got the silver version. Don't kill me if I'm wrong. But that's my impression after browsing around the different sites.
[Asus Transformer TF700] camspy:
It is looking quite strange, some smaller countries have Infinities in stock while bigger countries like Germany, UK, USA does not. Is that for testing for bugs before it hits the bigger markets?
[Asus Transformer TF700] thephreak99:
Lol..

But Asus stated that they would build up stock before sending. (Quoted somewhere in this thread). Because they didn't want there to be the same situation as with the 201.

So.. Bigger countries means bigger stockpiling before shipping and small countries like the peace-loving country of mine (Norway) is, doesn't need the equal amount of stockpiling before shipping. So.. We get it first?

Well.. That is my only idea why it seems to be that way. :P

PS: Happy Higgs Boson day!!! :highfive:
[Asus Transformer TF700] gunner1937:
Yes.

Big countries will receive it with Jelly Bean.:D
[Asus Transformer TF700] carolek:
Available soon???

B&H Photo has listed the Infinity on their web page. You can't pre-order but you can ask them to notify you when it is in stock.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...7068+4291626238&A=endecaSearch&O=&ci=16688&Q=
[Asus Transformer TF700] n-j-f:
Just 8 posts ago LOL :D
[Asus Transformer TF700] undercover:
I find that strange too. Same was happening with TFP, so Asus is fairly consistent with inconsistency of the availability. Their marketing strategy still sucks. They should have waited and released all versions at the same time in all the countries. All they had to do is just to hype it up. Look at Apple and Samsung strategies, works every time. They should have made a point of expandable memory and USB port, no other tablet offers such connectivity really.

It hurts to see that Asus has not learnt anything from TFP launch. Ah well, iPad 2 still works like a treat.....
[Asus Transformer TF700] d14b0ll0s:
Thanks for this, but perhaps I was unclear. By "different" modes I meant that it is pretty bad in ALL of them, not that it simply varies depending on the mode which is currently on (the latter would be obviously a good sign).

Say I get the regular ~56-59 MFLOPS reported in benchmarks by others in a single-thread Linpack test, and then I get 50 (!!!) INSTEAD OF ~130 in the multi-thread test. I got 100+ numerous times, but mostly the results were BELOW THE SINGLE-THREAD test results :/ I'm not sure why. It may not be the right place to report this, but perhaps some of you can try yours in "Linpack for Android" from the Mark... Google Play, I mean.
[Asus Transformer TF700] AtomicHippo:
Woohoo, just got a track and trace number on my champagne gold tf700. Live in Denmark by the way. Now I just hope the postman speeds up :-)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Underwater Mike:
If you recall, they did the same thing on the 101. The company seems incapable of any institutional learning. :rolleyes:
[Asus Transformer TF700] chevdor:
Saw the Infinity in Germany in local store (Saturn) for 739,-€

No stock left of course :-)

Restock announced in 2 to 3 weeks.

Shipping with ics 4.03.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Hemidroids:
Dont kid yourself. They know exactly whats going on.
[Asus Transformer TF700] tha_kreature:
Wohooo!

Thank you so very much!

You made my vacation with this little tidbit of information.

I also had a tab+doc order at komplett.no but cancelled it as soon as I read your post. 10 min later i had secured myself the 4'th to last tablet from ps.no!

Since I had given up hope on tf700 this summer i didn't read it until 1am local time and so i set shipping to express overnight. Best 200nok i ever spent! Got it today at 07:40!

I can already say i hate the speaker, and the glare is simply unbeleavable.

Not sure best fix on speaker yet but i have both a stereo bluetooth headset and a set of logitech bluetooth speakers to try out.

The glare shuld just be a matter of antiglare film or coating, and i am surprised it didn't have it. I will simply have to search for a good solution.

Thanks again for saving my summer.
[Asus Transformer TF700] phonic:
http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/429551/asus_delays_transformer_pad_infinity_raises_price/

UHOH.

A price increase AND a delay of up to a month? Hope this only affects Australia and not the US.
[Asus Transformer TF700] nooktablet:
The writer said in comment #4 that this is for Australia only

But i don't know if Asus is going to change the price for the US, maybe i will get the 300 or wait for the (rumored) Nexus 10
[Asus Transformer TF700] phonic:
True, but just because it's only for Australia (right now) doesn't mean they won't expand it to other regions. It seems to me that, based on other international poster's comments, that the US pricing is substantially lower than what they are selling for overseas. I know that many of these countries have VAT and Duty to contend with (free healthcare isn't free now is it), they might bump our cost up a little bit before it gets released.

Until the first one sells in the US, I'm going to be a little worried.
[Asus Transformer TF700] marder:
Yes
[Asus Transformer TF700] delirii:
Price mess

Look at the prices in Europe. The 64Gb version with dock should be sold at 699EUR but it appears to be over 700EUR.

I can't imagine spending more than 599EUR for the 32gb (with dock) version.

Asus should keep in mind that Android tablets suffer a huge lack of attractive tablet optimized applications (compared to the iPad of course). How can they win this war if even the prices aren't competitive ?!?
[Asus Transformer TF700] cheltenham2004:
€619 with dock 32gb :D in Spain
[Asus Transformer TF700] baukie:
you have an URL pleaase?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Einride:
Just ordered mine from PS.no. They had 31 in stock before I completed my order, now they're at 28 in stock. These things are popular!

Docks weren't in stock, so I'll get one of those later.
[Asus Transformer TF700] tha_kreature:
Looks like they got another batch in then!

23 left now.
[Asus Transformer TF700] banone:
Just got mine.

Couple of points of interest. I got the champagne gold, or silver metallic as i would have called it:-) No colour difference from my prime keyboard dock that i can see.

Seems to play very nice with my dock. Needs quite a bit of pressure to seat completely with the dock, but i guess that will ease up with use. BTW, my TF201 dock is firmware 206, which i am shure a lot of you will appreciate:-) Mind you, i have just tried the touch pad and typed a few letters, but so far so good, and charging seems to work quite nicely as well.

Didnt take long for a firmware update for the dock to present it self. A few seconds of installing, and i am now on firmware 207 for the dock.
[Asus Transformer TF700] cheltenham2004:
http://www.redcoon.es/B394940-Asus-TF700T-Dock-Dorado_Tablet-PC

Not in stock yet but up for ore order.:)
[Asus Transformer TF700] korannin:
I pre ordered from redcoon and the confirmation mail says the delivery date is in 4 weeks :(
[Asus Transformer TF700] XabiX666:
It can't be cheap and quick :)

I am wondering if it s not too late for me to buy this table which is not yet in stock in shops.

Soon we should have better ones :) like always
[Asus Transformer TF700] n-j-f:
Quite upsetting! After a lot of soul searching after finding it in stock (but not cheap) with a German website I ordered the gold sans dock on Tuesday evening. Thought it would take a few days to get to London. Well they shipped it yesterday and it's already got to Barking. Annoying because I'm flying to Prague tonight for a week so won't get to try out my new toy until the end of next week. :(

Sent from my GT-I9300 using xd

a premium
[Asus Transformer TF700] brucewilsonpa:
As I recall the Infinity is 3 mm thicker than the Prime so this is to be expected, but I suspect it will get easier as you use it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] banone:
yeah. i put some tape on the back to draw the outline of the docking, and it still went in.

btw, i did that to be able to modify an armorsuit carbon fibre film meant for the prime. I had to cut out the material where it sits in the docking. I made it fit, however, there are so many small differences between them with regards to switches and ports, that the end result was nor the very best. it will have to do for now, but i will replace it with the correct one later.
[Asus Transformer TF700] brucewilsonpa:
That surprises me since I'd been led to believe they're identical. Can you provide more details on what is different and why you believe you'll need to replace it later. I have a brand new prime dock waiting on my Infinity and could still return it if that makes sense.
[Asus Transformer TF700] snyph3r:
I believe he is talking about the armoursuit not fitting TF700T because of the button difference with the Prime...
[Asus Transformer TF700] d14b0ll0s:
Ok, rooted it :) viperMOD PrimeTime 4.6 did not work, since it needs the device to be unlocked by the ASUS unlocking tool, but DebugfsRoot 1.8 did in fact work (after reporting some adb errors - missing files etc.).

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=1003(graphics),1004(input),1007(log),1009(mount),1011(adb),

1015(sdcard_rw),3001(net_bt_admin),3002(net_bt),3003(inet),3006(net_bw_stats)

Voodoo OTA RootKeeper shows [V] in "Device Rooted".

I'll play with the I/O schedulers now and I'll be waiting impatiently for custom kernel to do try out other CPU governors :)

Curiously enough, the only I/O scheduler which shows in No-frills CPU Control right now is noop! Just as if it was there all the time by default... strange. Perhaps I'm missing something.
[Asus Transformer TF700] brucewilsonpa:
Thanks -- I misread his statement and it had me concerned.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Hemidroids:
Congratulations on being the first to cry about it getting here too fast.

The whiner circle is now complete. You people are pathetic. Never satisfied.

Cant wait to see whats next.
[Asus Transformer TF700] brucewilsonpa:
I took his comment to be an expression of deja vu, not whining -- I believe your response is inappropriate, whatever your view the msg. -- this thread has avoided flame mail up to now -- I trust you'll reconsider.
[Asus Transformer TF700] banone:
You sir, are correct. Even the ports and buttons which seem to be in the same place, are a little different. The camera hole seemed to be placed a little different too. Speaker hole is different. In the end, it doesnt look too shabby, and since armorsuit isnt coming out with one made for the infinity until october, i am glad i had one laying around. That alu case scratches so easily you wont believe it:(

BTW. Just put in a micro SD card. Nice and flush. You need to use a fingernail to release it. In other words nothing like the prime, so one problem solved at least.
[Asus Transformer TF700] n-j-f:
Have you never heard of satire? It's obviously a British thing. Some people have absolutely no sense of humour. :eek:
[Asus Transformer TF700] phonic:
Uhm.... British humor is generally considered dry and subtle. I don't really consider something saying "you people are pathetic" to fall under either of those categories. If your intention was to be sarcastic, I think it would have been better to have mentioned that. Otherwise, your post does come across as fairly rude.

:cyclops:
[Asus Transformer TF700] tha_kreature:
I've been trying to benchmark my filesystem on the SD card.

So far it seems to think it's in /mnt/sdcard but in fact the microSD is at /Removable/MicroSD/ and thus most tools I run either fail, or benchmark the local storage...

Talked to the guy behind SD Tools and he said he'd get a new version up with customizable test-path. We'll see how it goes.

Reason I am so interested in testing this is I got ahold of one of those new Sandisk Ultra cards with UHS-1 marking.

It is supposed to be a lot faster allowing both higher clockrate and transfer on both rising and falling flank. Combined with a paralell read setup internally (or so I have gathered) it should be fast.
[Asus Transformer TF700] d14b0ll0s:
I dealt with the same issue, but you can customise the path in the SDCardTester app.

So far, I have noticed that MicroSD reading speed is better than internal storage, but the Sandisk SDHC Extreme card beats everything. The external USB storage seems to be the fastest way of copying data between your PC and tablet, however. I will try to look further into it.

Speaking of benchmarks - I am about to try the SIO scheduler, but for now I can tell you that many benchmarks depend on what's happening with your CPU. I've just set the governor to "performance", switched to the performance CPU (least battery-saving) mode and got 87 sec instead of 108-9 in RL Benchmark (measuring SQLite Performance). Same for AnTuTu and others, but somehow I still fall behind the average for the Prime in AnTuTu (my Infinity scores ~9700), must be I/O... strangely enough, I just got way above the Prime (and HTC One X) with this setting in Quadrant for the first time with the 5286 score.

Update: This is even more strange, as most of the benchmarks seem to get close to what reviewers have submitted so far. But in AnTuTu I get similar I/O, a little higher GPU, but it fails in both CPU and RAM (almost 2000 below 7516 for CPU reported by androidiani.com and almost 1000 below its 2796 for RAM). Infinity owners -

please share your results of AnTuTu, RL Benchmark and LinPack in different CPU settings..
[Asus Transformer TF700] shinzz:
For I/O performance... can you use both SQlite & Androbench benchmark??
[Asus Transformer TF700] d14b0ll0s:
I'm not sure I get your question. Are you asking for the results of the two or are you asking about the possibility of using them together[?] ? ;)

[I'm puzzled as SQLite is something measured by many benchmarks, incl. Androbench (Insert, Update, Delete), and not a name of a benchmarking test itself..]
[Asus Transformer TF700] shinzz:
For SQlite... use...

RL Benchmark: SQLite

For I/O in general.... use..

Androbench
[Asus Transformer TF700] e.mote:
>after seeing HD in action, there's no question my next tablet will have an HD display

I've gone the other way. The notion of sharper (more legible) text is appealing, but the increased power use, with attendant impact on battery life, is a substantial offset.

iPad3's battery is +70% of previous. A major part of its increased power use is reportedly to compensate for the added filters (for better color fidelity). Let's say it's half, and increased res eats up +30% battery. If battery size is not increased, then I would opt for regular res over decreased battery life. Increased text legibility is a situational benefit, while increased battery life is a universal benefit.

This, not counting the various other factors, such as increased cost. For me, Android tabs currently have limited functionality, so I favor low cost over bleeding edge features. That won't change until Android grows up, or more likely, Win8 tabs hit the shelves.

BTW, it's funny to see peeps so obsessed with gigo-hurtz and quadcores, when those things means zip for everyday use. I'd rather have a full USB port and a stable OS. Guess this means I can't renew my geek cert any more, eh.
[Asus Transformer TF700] BarryH_GEG:
Meet my new best friend... ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] e.mote:
http://www.amazon.com/Zagg-ZAGGSPARQ-ZAGGsparq-Portable-Battery/dp/B00343D2NC

Amazon rating isn't great for the unit. Particular device aside, having to tether to an ext batt defeats the tablet's "carryability." Would you velcro the batt on the back? What if the tab doesn't charge through USB?

Going back to Infinity: TF700+dock should suffice for battery life, even if Asus doesn't bump up batt specs. If reported EU pricing holds up, $600 + 150 = $750. I'll stand by what I said before, I don't see it happening in US. If it does, mainstream appeal will be limited to hardcore Android fans.

I do see some considerations in its favor. a) A possible "preferred vendor" status with Google for releasing a unit with little mainstream appeal, in exchange for perks like direct Google support and the Google branding. b) Sometimes it's better to be a big frog in a small pond than vice versa. If it happens, TF700 won't have any direct competition from high-end Android tabs.

As a betting matter, I'd vote nay. But my provisional guess is that it may happen. Availability will likely be on a limited basis as with the Prime.

In fact, I see the Prime as a good release, in that it serves as a test bed for multiple aspects: ICS beta-testing, production test, and marketability for a high-end Android device.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Higadeb:
Very interesting post. Seems I'm quite miss informed. Thanks very much :)

I new there were different versions of T3 but didn't really think much of it. I just assumed it was like stepping in a PC CPU, is it? Do we know what these versions mean? If it is like stepping then we could see some more overclockable ones coming out? Would be good if they increased the GPU a bit, although I assume this could be overclocked by ourselves anyway?

Actually on my good old SGS the CPU & GPU clocks are linked together, so OCing the CPU also OCs the GPU (I think, there are some kernels that do if differently, but I think that's what happens). Would that be the same here?

Anyway, very glad you don't think it'll be at the max out the box. I'm a strong believer of the "if it's not overclocked it's broken" philosophy. :)

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It mainly stems from the higher res putting causing some doubts over the performance. Having said that, I'm a bit clock speed mental. I know it doesn't make a huge difference, a slightly faster CPU can never overcome the shortfalls of poor programming. But if you can have a faster CPU & software, well why not?

I'm not saying I'm going to buy a device for the ability to OC it that'd be mental. If there was a device that would more practical i.e. USB etc. then I'd jump at it, and atm the transformer series are the most practical for me as. I guess what I'm saying is if you can & it improves the performance, and more importantly user experience, why not?
[Asus Transformer TF700] newellj79:
I just seen that the infinity was going to be released june 10th for italy. hopefully here soon after???

Sent from my TF201

using XDA
[Asus Transformer TF700] sontin:
I don't see a reason why power would increase with a 1200p Display. Power cost of LCDs coming from the backlight and not the amount of pixel.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Unrivalled:
Still no 3G version for Infinity 700??? Fml. :((((
[Asus Transformer TF700] sontin:
There are two versions:

One with Tegra 3 and Wifi-only

One with Krait and LTE/3G.

But i think the LTE-version is for the american market only...
[Asus Transformer TF700] undercover:
GPU needs more power pushing more pixels around,hence higher power consumption.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Blinky13:
Here the LTE-version was announced to be available in Germany from may, so there may be a hope for all countries that already have an LTE-infrastructure, at least i hope so ;-)