[Asus Transformer TF700] Pretoriano80:
Dear Asus customers/future customers,

after almost a week of using, testing, playing with this tablet and also reading this forum i thought it's time to create a topic about all the issues and defects we encountered.

Also if thing go well and the mods will give a hand to keep this topic clean we could add the positive thoughts and the strong parts of this tablet too. So lets start with the issues and defects. (On the first page i will put only issues and defects confirmed by more users and not isolated ones)

THE BAD PART

Overall Build issues/defects including materials and hardware :

1) The screen frame and the aluminium body doesn't fit equally around the tablet

In my case the bottom left (near the dock connection) of the screen frame is 2 mm out and when pressing it is going down, then up again

2) Clicking sound (like a cheap 100$ plastic device) when you hold it

Sadly i can confirm this too and with my device this clicking comes from the left side (in landscape mode) of the tablet. This is also very annoying and you can hear it loud and clear, especially during indoor use.

3) Light bleeding

I can notice this mostly when booting or in very dark conditions. In my case it's located mostly on bottom and the right side, and doesn't really bother with normal use.

4) Volume buttons

Made with very low quality and sometimes you are afraid that will get stuck into the frame or even break.

5) Flash memory/internal memory

This is a well known issue and many review sites pointed out this issue that as you already know was almost fixed with the latest firmware update but still not totally gone.

Try a benchmark application which test random read/write and you will see that your 3 years old device can do better than your Infinity :banghead:

6) Some issue with Bluetooth streaming

Software/OTA updates/Bootloader Unlock --> both issues are now fixed

1) Users doesn't receive OTA updates even if their are on stock firmware and locked bootloader

UPDATE 07/08/2012 - Asus fixed the issue and it seems that many users are getting the OTA so thx Asus for listening to us and please keep doing so. :thumbup:

2) Users not able to unlock the bootloader with Asus Unlock Tool -- fixed on 07/08/2012

Reading on various boards (from Asus Prime,TF300T and TF700) looks like this two issues are connected somehow but what is even more important is that Asus doesn't support the unlock issues in anyway (and is not covered by your warranty) but some users used the OTA updates issue for asking repacement/repair ticket (so this one seems to be covered by the warranty).

UPDATE: Issue is fixed so more kudos to Asus... thx for the relatively quick fix

Marketing

1) Selling the TF201 dock as a TF700 dock @ higher price is not nice for the customers

Now this is only a part of the story and i will keep updating the topic.

For Asus : Dear Asus when i discovered the above issues i got really sad but after that i've said "hey i can live with that" or "nah, doesn't bother too much", but i wonder why do we have to say that when is you the one who failed.Is this your high-end pricy tablet that you advertised a lot? What would you say if someone would make you pay for a Ferrari but you would only get a half Fiat/half Ferrari?

NOTE: I'm not trying to discourage anyone or stop people from buying the Infinity which for my needs is still a great product and i keep mine even with the above issues. Also some of these are not covered by the warranty so i guess that even if someone want to return the product it wouldn't be possible (one example would be the bootloader unlock issue)... at least not everywhere.