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[Asus Transformer TF700] janaa309:
[/COLOR]Well then... tablet has been ordered. Although I'm a bit confused with their £ conversion:

Total: EUR 619.88

Total bill:	£ 504.77 **

If I work it out with current rates it comes to £485.[/QUOTE]

How do you know your final bill is £ 504.77?

The current bank conversion rate is £485. But don't forget the changes applied for the overseas transaction.

I took my chances and ordered my yesterday. Just had a confirmation from Amazon.de to inform the item has been shipped.:cool:

What odd is, it is coming from 'Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire GB.':confused:
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
How do you know your final bill is £ 504.77?

The current bank conversion rate is £485. But don't forget the changes applied for the overseas transaction.

I took my chances and ordered my yesterday. Just had a confirmation from Amazon.de to inform the item has been shipped.:cool:

What odd is, it is coming from 'Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire GB.':confused:[/QUOTE]

£504.77 is what the email to me said...
[Asus Transformer TF700] MisterEz:
When I ordered mine from Amazon.de I was given the option to pay in Euros or for them to do the conversion to Sterling and bill me in UK£.

The rate they used was way off - working out to about an extra £20 in their favour - so I chose to pay in Euros & let my bank handle the conversion... I'll get a far better rate that way.

Interesting to hear that you've just had one shipped from them - I'm actually waiting for mine to be replaced, as the original had a speck of dust trapped underneath the screen - right in the middle. They've agreed to replace it without any question, but are telling me that they won't have stock till 8th August... Did your order from Amazon.de direct, or was it from another company & being sold though them...?? (this is for the 64Gb champagne gold tablet, without dock)
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
Oh, I don't think I read that properly then... let me cancel and redo the order!
[Asus Transformer TF700] MisterEz:
I think - not 100% sure about this - that when I was given the choice, it said that it was a one-time only choice...

ie, from now on I'll always be billed in Euros. Or, if I'd chosen UK£ then I'd always be billed in UK£.

So, I'm not sure you'll be able to change it now. You might want to contact their support department to check before cancelling your order. I've had to do this a few times regarding my exchange - they speak perfect English, and are happy to accept/reply to emails in English.
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
I've done it now... placed a new order with € :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] MisterEz:
Nice one. :good:
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
Although the dock showed out of stock on Expansys its now been dispatched :)

Sent from my GT-P7510
[Asus Transformer TF700] indie13:
Guys question. Has anyone thought of buying new from eBay, i.e. a US model? I worked It out as about £350 all in with postage and no keyboard.

Anyone got any thoughts on if this is a good or bad plan?
[Asus Transformer TF700] maheshp:
Its a good plan, the cheapest I found was £360 all in. The thing is you will get charged VAT on the declaired value. Make sure you add that to your total.
[Asus Transformer TF700] pnharrison:
I've also decided to go down the Amazon.de route; ordered a 64gb Infinity in Gold for 599 eur + 7 eur shipping = approx £ 475 Then found myself a new TF201 keyboard dock on ebay for £92. So I should get it sooner and cheaper than waiting for UK stock.

Amazon.de are giving a shipping date of 8th Aug. (There were other sellers on Amazon.de with it in stock now, but I didn't want to potential hassle of dealing with unknown German retailers if there are any problems)
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
I ordered mine yesterday and until an hour ago it said it was going to be dispatched today... now it says it was dispatched yesterday and is currently with City Link for delivery tomorrow :D

The price also dropped by roughly €8 so Amazon.de are refunding the difference :good:
[Asus Transformer TF700] firetech:
I have saw that the gold one is said to come back in stock on august 7, but the gray one is in stock now.
[Asus Transformer TF700] janaa309:
I ordered my TF700 from Amazon.de on the 25th and got it delivered yesterday.

Went through the initial setup and choose English UK as default language. It is now working just it was bought from UK.

I also have a TF300 and not sure the extra £200 is well spent (in my opinion). The screen is bright and the colours are vivid. But for my indoor general use I think the TF300 is just fine. Also noticed the plastic body of TF300 feels easier to hold. There wasn't any firmware update available - I guess it is up to date. One issue with the FT700 is, it can't read my 16GB microSD card. As I understand it is a know issue and is addressed in the next FW update.
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
I ordered on the 26th and it is currently out for delivery :D

Firmware .26 is the latest and it fixes SD card and I/O issues which are both quite important for me. There are methods in the development forum of how to update manually.
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
Got it! Updated to .26 and rooted :D
[Asus Transformer TF700] JamesRC:
Just a quick heads up - I noticed Simply Electronics were offering the TF700 32GB and 64GB versions but I highly recommend AVOIDING this seller. A quick Google will give you 1000's of horror stories - steer clear!

---------- Post added at 08:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:40 PM ----------

Interesting to read - I returned my TF300 because of 3 issues: 1) poor I/O, 2) low ppi screen and 3) poorly balanced w/dock

Is the screen quality of the TF700 not noticeably better, particularly for reading PDFs?

I also read that the I/O has been improved with the TF700 on .26 and the TF700 dock is rebalanced - I have high hopes! All I need is a reasonable price point and a near release date!
[Asus Transformer TF700] dknotty:
And they aren't particularly cheap!
[Asus Transformer TF700] Kookas:
What are the odds that the 3G Krait version will be sold subsidised by a network here when it comes out next month?

Also, this:

http://www.portagadgets.com/uk/-PRE...r-Int.-Warranty-Amethyst-Grey.html#googlebase

It claims that it will ship with the keyboard dock, and it's pretty cheap (considering the £600 UK rip-off price that Asus want to sell it for - with only 32GB and without the dock). I'm thinking that's what I'll get.

I wonder if Asus are aware that they're charging twice as much as an iPad 3? Even as an Android fan, I'd much rather have two iPad 3s or a decent ultrabook than pay £700 for this plus dock.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JamesRC:
This co. imports the TF700 AFAIK and the prices aren't good - £500 w/o dock or £600 with... I'd order from Amazon.de if you're desperate!

PS the UK price of £600 is for 64GB with dock.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MisterEz:
Portagadgets have some shockingly bad reviews, if you Google them...

They seem to be based in Singapore, and import goods from there. It looks like they charge the full cost to your card as soon as you order, and then (if many of the reviews are to be believed) quite often delay delivery for weeks & sometimes even months. When things go wrong you've got no chance of getting it resolved quickly, and lots of people have had to get their credit card company to issue a charge back as it seems that Portagadgets pretty much refuse to give refunds.

Personally, I'd avoid them like the plague.
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
I wouldn't even classify PortaGadgets as a company... steer clear mate, especially when it comes to £600 products.
[Asus Transformer TF700] janaa309:
I have got the brightness setting on auto on both devices and was using them mainly indoors. So not noticeable difference to start with. For outdoor use TF700 is lot better. So far I am not experiencing much I/O issues and the TF700 still on .22. I am not using the dock on the TF300 and haven't got one for TF700.
[Asus Transformer TF700] pnharrison:
My TF700 - Gold, 64Gb - arrived yesterday from Amazon.de (also delivered from Milton Keynes it seems).

No problems with build quality; Very pleased so far.

(My Amazon.co.uk pre-order is still estimating Sept delivery)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Lazzzara:
Have any of you guys who have ordered from amazon.de been charged import duty on your tablets?
[Asus Transformer TF700] MisterEz:
There's no import duty within the EU...
[Asus Transformer TF700] JTHM:
There is no import duty to be paid on personal electronics of this sort, however customs of all EU countries will charge VAT on the declared "value for customs" plus a handling charge (£8 in the UK).

Make sure the international seller does not charge you sales tax at the point of sale or you'll be stung twice.
[Asus Transformer TF700] pnharrison:
No. My order was charged with VAT at 20%. It seems to have been fulfilled from the UK rather than posted from Germany.

So I've paid Eur 611.61 (including a delivery charge of Eur 7.58) = approx £485 delivered, VAT paid.
[Asus Transformer TF700] JamesRC:
Yep, the Amazon.de page does state that VAT is included.

Has anyone bought the dock from Amazon.de as well? I'm curious to see pics of the German TF700 keyboard layout.

James
[Asus Transformer TF700] indie13:
Gents with customs costs i paid £430 for a 32gb tablet only from the US and it was delivered within a week.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Elegor:
I bought my tf700 from Amazon.de (arrived within 3 days last week, and was shipped from Milton Keynes!) but didn't order the dock since the description says that it's a QWERTZ format rather than a QWERTY format:

"* Besonderheiten: Unibody Aluminium, GPS, Keydock mit vollwertiger QWERTZ-Tastatur, FullHD IPS+ Panel"

Does anyone know if it's possible to order a stand-alone UK keyboard? Expansys sell one, but it's the US version which has the #, @ and " keys swapped around.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Lazzzara:
Gah... Amazon.de aren't selling the tablet with the keyboard any more.

"

Article is checked

At the moment this item is not available directly via Amazon.de. Customers have informed us that the article is different from the description on the website.

We are already working on a quick solution. Maybe this article can be ordered through a third party.

"

You guys did at least point out it's a QWETRZ keyboard on the German one (Chrome conveniently translates "eine QWERTZ-Tastatur" to "a QWERTY keyboard"). I'm wondering what the odds are of finding a standalone UK keyboard when it's launched over here, they don't seem to be planning on selling them separately. I might just wait for my Amazon UK order to arrive, as much as I want it right nowww!
[Asus Transformer TF700] mzhussein:
HI all, ive been a silent party in this thread for a long time, I ordered my pad last week from amazon.de, arrived on Monday from Milton keynes.

I bought 64GB no dock champaign. then i got in contact with ASUS directly, and asked them for a TF201 UK dock, they said no, and no resellers had any. i then asked if the TF700T would have a separate UK dock, sadly NO. They confirmed to me that ASUS have never and will never sell/distribute a UK dock on its own for either the prime or infinity...i then bought the cheapest champaign TF201 dock (US layout) i could find and reigned my self to it..

Then, joy of joys, a UK TF201 dock came up on ebay (all be it the wrong colour) so i bought that, and swapped the innards around (not for the feint hearted, the keyboard is held onto the aluminium front of the dock by 30 or 40 plastic welds, *out with the soldering iron*)

Only to find the keys are SLIGHTLY different shapes! on the US dock the LEFT SHIFT is double length and the RETURN is half height, opposite to the UK dock, so i had to trim some of the US dock alu font to fit the UK keyboard. so i now have a TF700T with a fully working UK dock in champaign.

With the left over parts i made a fully functional GREY dock US layout, that is on ebay atm (to recoup my costs of buying two docks!)

Such is my tale lol.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ziprar:
Guys, pls help, I tried ordering infinity from amazon.de but some error occured (the explanation was in german) I assumed that they do not ship to the UK, so I ordered grey infinity 64gb with dock from expansys (£635) hoping to get it by 18 of august. Now the date has changed to 31 of august on expansys website.

Should I cancel my order from expansys and then just buy the infinity when it officialy arrives in the UK and probably spend less money too or stick with the order. Also does anyone know what the retail price is going to be?

cheers

Ed
[Asus Transformer TF700] Elegor:
31st August is the official release date in the UK, and I'd expect it to cost £599 for the 64gb version with keyboard (although don't hold me to that price!).

When I ordered mine from Amazon.de, I used Chrome and its automatic translation function, which helped enormously. It doesn't translate the buttons, but if you hover the mouse over them the link text field that appears at the bottom of the screen is often in English anyway.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ziprar:
Hmm, I will check with expansys, the initial email said 18th of august, if thats still valid then I will stick with them, otherwise I am canceling my order and will be trying to buy one from the amazon.de
[Asus Transformer TF700] ziprar:
Please somebody tell me, does the german version have a german keyboard (with german symbols on it) or is the usual En-US?

thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] firetech:
Not that I'm German, but the keyboards are localized. The German keyboard is QWERTZ.
[Asus Transformer TF700] leedrummond:
still 11th sept for me from amazon uk, wonder what the delay is if they get them on 31st aug
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Just ordered mine from Amazon.de :D £496 without the dock.
[Asus Transformer TF700] stevie_velvet:
Thanks gals & guys, I think that what table to puchase is no longer a no-brainer, How many months ago was it announced ?

Cost ?

£496 From Germany for a Hi Res Tablet,

£599 from UK stockists, IF it stock appears in Septmeber

{ps..simplyelctronics (£399 in stock) are registered in China }

vs.

£399 from UK (in stock) for Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 - 2year warranty (JL)

[ £599 = £119 in pure TAX (UK VAT @ 20%) ]

Display ?

Whilst Apple & Asus have created a Full HD spec display, you pay a premium.

A few days with the 2nd Gen ipad last week, with HD movies made me realise than anything higher given the display size & aspect ratio didn't bring any benefits in usability. Amd Apple s sandboxing approach killed the thought of a pemanent purchase ~ applications should be able to work to gther to bring affect solutions and have access to shared files system

Storage Memory ?

As has been indicated the UK spec will be sold with 64 GB & dock. So the premiium for 3

2GB, a keyboard & a battery is between £100-£150

I'll be surprised if anyone reading this thinks this is justifiable &2 revierws already fidn the keybaord cramped and not usuable beyond a few pages (engadget), pc pro). So that leave the 16GB Note 10.1, so a exmaple micro sd 32GB is £13 (Amazon), brings 48GB without pushing the financial budget

Battery ?

9.25h vs 8h (Note 10.1) (engadget) Consider this versus cost and for me it wasn't enough of a road warrior advantage

Which just leaves the advantages of the Note (CPU & Memory). The thing is i suspect these into to their own to drive the S-PEN based applications, and are unlkely to be noticeable in other less demanding applications. Nevertheless the benchmarks are undeniable and as tablet base application development moves along, so will the advantage of the note 10.1 over the infinity in terms of performance

I wish you gals & guys well

ciao

...............................

ms. stevie
[LG Optimus Black] Fireworkfan:
Hello, i am going on a long bustrip to Berlin,

and i would like to watch movies then. How can i extend the

duration of my battery? i use the ZEUS rom. Maybe someting i can do in

zeus tweaker?
[LG Optimus Black] theaks30:
-Underclock your cpu

-uninstall useless apps or keep them closed or freezed(mostly background apps)

-use dimmer light

-use low power earphones(in ear ones)

-use 2g mode only

-turn off lights of the buttons below(menu, home, back and search)

-disable sync of google, facebook, etc

-best thing...buy another battery or take your laptop or a portable dvd player with you :p
[LG Optimus Black] theaks30:
Also change your governor and i/o blah blah to a powersaving one :)
[LG Optimus Black] lean7:
Right!

how long the trip?
[LG Optimus Black] Fireworkfan:
its like 10 hour :') i will underlock my cp and turn the lights off, but cansome

one explain me the I/0 en govenour, i did indeed found it an option in zeus tweaker. there are like 4 options, what is the most power saving one?
[LG Optimus Black] theaks30:
Man...for ten hours, just underclock cpu, remove lights and use low brightness would be fine i guess :)

Buy another battery of you want and find a friend ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aloniado:
hi,

I was wondering which apps can sync with my android.

currently syncing:

google

dropbox

facebook

skype

twitter

whatsapp

samsung account

my viber doesn't appear in the list.

are there any more apps?

thanks!
[HTC Amaze 4G] xda_23:
Hello,

I had several problems with my HTC Amaze phone; freezes and the screen become unresponsive, works by itself (open apps, close them and zoom in/out on webpages without touching it) or suddenly resets.

I already sent the phone 3-4times for repair, I even had a video to prove my problem.

The problem is that even this latest repaired phone has same problems.

What can/should I do with HTC in order to fix my problem ? get a different model maybe (which they refused to do) ? as it looks they are unable and they are not willing to repair the issue.

BTW, I m from Canada.

Thnx
[HTC Amaze 4G] hasoon2000:
I don't know how the laws are in Canada, but in the U.S., after an electronic has the same issue 3 - 4 times, we call it a lemon. The company must replace it with a new device or a device with an equal or lower value. You can research about your lemon laws in Canada.
[HTC Amaze 4G] xda_23:
Thx,

I know all stores such as Best Buy do it for extended warranty, but I am not sure about manufacturer!

Cause when I called HTC today the CSR told me I have to keep sending it for repair until I get a good working phone, which is completely unacceptable.
[HTC Amaze 4G] hasoon2000:
That's why I said research about Canada's lemon laws. You can use it against them.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Dark Nightmare:
If you send the device for repair and it comes back with the same issue, how was it repaired exactly?
[HTC Amaze 4G] Double0EK:
Does this happen with all stock applications? Nothing downloaded. No modifications. Is there a screen protector? Things of that nature should he eliminated first and tested again.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[HTC Amaze 4G] xda_23:
I looked for Canada's lemon law, apparently it applies only to vehicle

I called my carrier, htc and PCD (their warranty authorized service provider), when I asked why I send my phone for repair and I still have problems, the csr told in Canada we just swap phones and they never repair them lol

basically, they swapped my phone with someone else. This is ridiculous!

I asked to talk with manager, I am waiting him/her to call me back ...

@Double0EK: Yes, after 2nd repair I got the screen ghosting on day 1. I don't have screen protector.
[HTC Amaze 4G] hasoon2000:
Use this. It may help you.

http://www.consumerinformation.ca/eic/site/032.nsf/eng/h_00085.html
[Galaxy S III General] Mr_Maz:
Now that Vodafones one month exclusivity on the 32gb version is over, does anyone have and details on what the other UK carriers are planning?

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] Isadora:
I guess it all depends on the wording of the exclusivity agreement... Vodafone apparently only started shipping the 32gb models about a week ago so if it's one month from the time Samsung actually gets them to Voda, it's going to be a few more weeks yet before they are available to order through someone else.

Sent from my CM9 TouchPad
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] spacecat:
As per the thread title

Can the S3 output 1080p video such as an mkv to a TV via HDMI?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] spacecat:
Any one?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] gandalf21502:
Sure does....:good: Just need the new S3 MHL adapter!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] punzada:
Does anyone have any experience using it yet? I'm curious as to how high of a bitrate 1080p files it can process.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dmize:
I'm using a AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 rooted but running standard stock rom. Today I noticed a version of SuperUser for update on the playstore. After downloading it my device gave me the error "insufficient storage on device". I have 9gb of internal free, and 32gb on my SD Card. (still haven't figured out how to install stuff to my SD card... i'm a noob :P).

I haven't done anything to alter the rom that I can think of. I installed the updated apk for Playstore but read to uninstall the update and give it a try. No success. Also to note, Angry Birds Space which is 22mb downloaded and installed after the error was popping up. So it just seems to be superuser.

Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] howdyace:
For future reference , you can NOT install apps to the sd card. Its internal memory or nothing.

Also if superuser won't install but other apps will then there is some leftover in android/data.

Delete it and it should install.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dmize:
Thank you for the reply! However I am kind of lost as to what you mean leftovers in android/data.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] howdyace:
using myfiles go to

/mnt/sdcard/android/data

once there , delete anything having to do with superuser.

That should do the trick. Should. The reason why is once you uninstalled superuser sometimes it doesn't remove every component. This will.

Leaving you free to install the new apk.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dmize:
Sadly I don't see anything with Super User there. I even attempted to do a Cache wipe from CWM recovery. Still nothing.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] naturefreak85:
Use root explorer and go to /system see how much space is used up in the system folder. It could be that is the issue.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] NiteTrekker:
I don't understand this reasoning. I picked up the 16GB Galaxy at the store because 32GB was only available on line.

Would a future custom ROM be able to fix this?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxsxx:
If you rooted using this (no tripping the flash counter) method, there was a problem with system size on the original. Just need to do it again with the updated files.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dmize:
Still having the issue popping up. Here are a couple screen shots. Also my root was the first method that did trip it. I have since removed root because of the issue. Still persists though.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mercado79:
have you tried clearing market cache? that might do the trick.

system settings > application manager > Google Play Store > Clear Data
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] robgee789:
is it the same with every app or is it just ones that you have installed before and are tring to reinstall
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dmize:
I tried cleaning the cache and still no go. As for the app installs, it seems only certain apps don't work with it. I have never installed signature sign and today at work I tried just for fun and got the error. That was the 35kb app.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] the1stSecond:
Did you use this method to root stock?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1739426

If so, did you see the update from 66 to 67 due to possible system size issues?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dmize:
I just put 67 on and now I have super user again, however simple apps like the weather channel still give me that error. Thank you for helping me with this, too. I'm going crazy over it!