[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] vvveith:
My thoughts Gary.

This was my first tablet ever! I had been reading about months before it was available. When I tried to find one, everyone was saying they were discontinued. The truth was they were not even shipped yet.

Then low and behold I found one on Amazon. I had already made a buying decision, and ordered one, has it turned out, from one of Amazons other merchants. I had to order the keyboard the same day from yet another one of Amazons other merchants.

I received them general post in three days! I was excited. I opened the the package and read the instructions, followed them to the tee and finally turned the device on. First thing I noticed was some screen bleed on the black Asus boot screen. I figured I could live with that since you could not see it once you were to the desktop unless you use a very black background with strong back light intensity. Before the updates there was a little screen flickering which I also figured would work itself out with future updates, and it has! Then I tried the GPS, it worked but was very weak and I knew I would not be able to use it for driving navigation, I was a little disappointed, but then really disappointed when you just swept the problem out of the specs. I really wanted to love this first time tablet experience. Especially after shelling out nearly nine hundred dollars! Then I tried the WiFi and noticed the signal was very sub-par. After a few updates there was an improvement but still not worth the $800. Only paid four hundred for my HTC amaze phone and it's WiFi is through the roof. Again I was a little disappointed, enough to follow all the threads in this forum and others to see if anyone knew of a fix/recall or whatever that actually worked. I have only seen a couple and they all ended in total refunds. I feel like Asus robbed me and really does not care how hard I worked for that money and how much aggravation I have endured hoping that all this could somehow be rectified.

I really do want to love the device but I feel very cheated and mislead. I know these are problems you can sometimes expect when you are an early adapter to any new technology, but even Ford does recalls when there is a manufacturing problem, and they do there best to actually fix the problem not say it never existed. Now I'm also noticing that my battery drain with keyboard is way below what was listed in the specs, not that I expected it to be as good as they suggest, I do use smartphones and they never line up to there specs talk time and such, but at least with them you can get replacement batteries and carry spares along with universally excepted USB power adapters so you can charge them just about anywhere; Vehicles, Computers, wall outlets, etc. Even with all these shortcomings I would be sad to let this tablet go, probably because it's my first and I still hope that Asus will do the right thing. Refund or Recall or discount a future product for those of us that were early adapters who have not plagued you with thousands of RMA's and exchanges and falsified posts and bad mouthing s. You have the power to make all this right and you should not fail to do so or you will lose many supporters in the future. They way it looks to me right now is that Asus does not care much about the end consumer and feels they can release a promised feature product and then just remove features after the fact. Maybe I just got a bad one but it does work, just not at all as expected. This should be cause enough for you to contact me. Awaiting your reply. H. Vincent Veith. Cleveland, OH.