Despite many types of tablets that have now been released in the country, only very few can compete with the Apple iPad. At least that’s until we found out about the 10.1-inch Android Tablets from Asus. These tablets are to be available in the country soon in order to rival with the iPad. It’s officially called the Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101. From reviews that we have viewed on the internet, including the source mentioned, this new tablet may well not be like the sexy Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, but this tablet has a few ups that is worth oggling into. First, is its design, this gadget has a keyboard dock, which basically turns your tablet into a sort of Android netbook and what’s even more swell is that it can almost double the battery life, and of course, gives you a keyboard. Design The Asus Transformer is wider, and thicker that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, but, in a sea of white and black tablets, it’s color, which is copper, is a stand-out. It also has speakers on both ends of the tablet. Because of its width, it’s meant to be used in landscape mode. On the left is the power and volume buttons. On the right is the 3.5mm audio jack, a miniHDMI port and a microSD slot which is quite rare in quality tablets. Underside you will see the proprietary port for charging and data transfer. It has no microUSB port. At the back, there is the lens of the 5 megapixel camera. The back is slightly curved and textured, meaning it is less slippery when handled and the design eased the thickness of the device. Display and UI The Asus Eee Pad doesn’t fail with its UI display with a 1280 x 800 resolution. Its UI is also not heavily customized, which will ensure that users will get quicker firmware or OS updates. If you’re not familiar with Honeycomb, it’s similar to your typical Android UI with homescreens where you can place widgets and app shortcuts. The widgets on Honeycomb are resizable to optimize the space in whichever way you want. Since these tablets don’t have physical buttons for Android functions, the UI has a persistent bar at the bottom for your usual menus including Home, multitask and even a dedicated screen capturing button. The notification tray is located on the lower right along with the time and other status icons. Asus has also added a fifth row for the keyboard so that you need not switch keyboard layouts when trying to type symbols or numbers for your usernames and passwords. Multimedia and Gaming Thanks to its gorgeous screen, watching videos on the Transformer is quite a treat and the dual speakers on both side are loud enough for personal viewing without earphones. One downside though is that the Eee Pad seemed to be lacking in audio codecs. Some videos that played properly on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 didn’t have any audio when played in the Transformer. Gaming on this tablet isn’t really the best, as some games when viewed on fullscreen become pixelated. What’s good though, is that because it runs on Honeycomb 3.2, apps and games made for the smartphone will now appear on the Android Market. Web Browsing There were no encountered problems with how pages are rendered and they load pretty quickly. For Flash object support, you still need to download and install the Flash player from the Market. Playing those heavy Facebook Flash games is possible but loading is pretty slow. Battery Life Under the normal usage, this tablet’s battery life runs for a long 9 hours, with WiFi on, with video streaming, some gaming and downloading apps and other stuff. Charging is done via propriety port on the bottom of the tablet. Based on the article from http://www.pinoytechblog.com/archives/asus-eee-pad-transformer-tf101-review