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Bateluer

Bateluer

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It won't get blocked by Apple.

Now, Hasbro's suit may have forced the name change from Prime to Infinity though.
 
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Piano Man

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Not likely. I also don't see this coming out for at least a few months either. Software was reported to be very rough by some people who got hands on time. 1200p IPS sounds pretty sexy until Apple comes out with their 2048 x 1536 display next week, and then this thing starts to looks like a turd before it even launches.
 
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Bateluer said:
It won't get blocked by Apple.

Now, Hasbro's suit may have forced the name change from Prime to Infinity though.
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Now Disney will have their way with them.

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Bateluer

Bateluer

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gorcorps said:
Now Disney will have their way with them.
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God help us all when corporations can copyright/patent common words. :p


Piano Man said:
Not likely. I also don't see this coming out for at least a few months either. Software was reported to be very rough by some people who got hands on time. 1200p IPS sounds pretty sexy until Apple comes out with their 2048 x 1536 display next week, and then this thing starts to looks like a turd before it even launches.
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iFanatics, never happy. :p 16x10 is a much better and more useful aspect ratio than 4:3.
 
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Piano Man

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Yep, total iFanatic here (looks around at all the apple products I own, oh wait, I've never owned one) >.>

Aspect Ratio is gonna be super subjective for a tablet. Some like continuity with TVs and such, but I'm kinda of keen on 4:3 personally for a handheld. The superior resolution makes it even more forgivable if you don't like it.


Since this is the "flagship" for ASUS, yet looks to be outgunned by the ipad3/2s/etc... I'm curious as to the pricing. I also have a hunch that the ipad3 may top out at 1k for the highend, which should give some breathing room for Android tablets. I think anything over 699 for this transformer will be too high.

Still, I was hoping for the rumored 1600p tablet that never came to be :(

Oh well, such is life.
 
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1920x1200 is a great resolution, IMO.
You get native resolution 1080p video, native resolution full-HD Splashtop, native resolution hdmi mirroring. iPad 3 might be higher res, which will be good for text, but it will be a resolution that is native to nothing else. HD Video or video-out is going to be scaled and/or letter-boxed. Remote desktop is almost definitely not going to be at native resolution. I have a feeling that the loss of sharpness from scaling on HD content will be more noticeable than extra text sharpness from somewhat higher resolution.
 
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senseamp said:
1920x1200 is a great resolution, IMO.
You get native resolution 1080p video, native resolution full-HD Splashtop, native resolution hdmi mirroring. iPad 3 might be higher res, which will be good for text, but it will be a resolution that is native to nothing else. HD Video or video-out is going to be scaled and/or letter-boxed. Remote desktop is almost definitely not going to be at native resolution. I have a feeling that the loss of sharpness from scaling on HD content will be more noticeable than extra text sharpness from somewhat higher resolution.
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I kinda worry, as the Tegra 2 struggled with 1280x800 with high frame rates if the same will happen to the Tegra 3 and 1920x1200. That's still a lot of pixels to push.
 
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ChronoReverse

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1920x1200 is a great resolution for a tablet. You're really not gaining anything going further than that in such a small device. Everything else is really just aspect ratio.

Tegra2 was really weak so the Krait and Tegra3 based tablets at these resolutions shouldn't be too weak (although not super fast either).
 
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"We're expecting pricing to be north of $599 "

Damn that's quite a sum. $400 was too much for the 16gb Transformer in retrospect imo, no way I'm paying $600+ for a tablet.

Also it does not list a microSD slot like the TF101 and 201 do. That would suck to be forced to pay an extra $100/16gb for more space.
 
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Mopetar

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Bateluer said:
God help us all when corporations can copyright/patent common words. :p
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It's usually not possible to get a trademark (Copyrights and Patents are completely different issues) on a common word describing the product. There's also different types of trademarks (unregistered, registered, etc.) that have different implications; for example, anyone can simply start using an unregistered trademark. There's also the funny case where a company can lose its trademark if the trademark becomes common usage. A few examples where this has occurred to some extent are Kleenex, Xerox, and Google, where people use the trademarks in place of the proper common word (i.e. tissue, copy, or search) that would normally be used.

Multiple companies are also capable of holding the same trademark if there's no likelihood of product confusion. For example, Hasbro uses the Transformer trademark to refer to its line of action figures, and ASUS uses it in the consumer electronics space. There's also another aspect to trademarks that makes lawsuits such as these common. If a company fails to protect its trademark, it can lose it. As the word 'transformer' is a common word, there's a lot of leeway into its use. However, adding 'prime' into the mix, another word that's heavily associated with Hasbro's product, starts causing a lot of overlap.
 
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Piano Man

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senseamp said:
1920x1200 is a great resolution, IMO.
You get native resolution 1080p video, native resolution full-HD Splashtop, native resolution hdmi mirroring. iPad 3 might be higher res, which will be good for text, but it will be a resolution that is native to nothing else. HD Video or video-out is going to be scaled and/or letter-boxed. Remote desktop is almost definitely not going to be at native resolution. I have a feeling that the loss of sharpness from scaling on HD content will be more noticeable than extra text sharpness from somewhat higher resolution.
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The non native stuff could be, but we'll have to wait and see. There's alot of newer 21:9 content as well, so native resolution is gonna be hard for whoever. But for browsing the web, using music apps, and general use, just keep on giving me that higher resolution any day, regardless of aspect ratio.
 
Bateluer

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Mopetar said:
It's usually not possible to get a trademark (Copyrights and Patents are completely different issues) on a common word describing the product. There's also different types of trademarks (unregistered, registered, etc.) that have different implications; for example, anyone can simply start using an unregistered trademark. There's also the funny case where a company can lose its trademark if the trademark becomes common usage. A few examples where this has occurred to some extent are Kleenex, Xerox, and Google, where people use the trademarks in place of the proper common word (i.e. tissue, copy, or search) that would normally be used.

Multiple companies are also capable of holding the same trademark if there's no likelihood of product confusion. For example, Hasbro uses the Transformer trademark to refer to its line of action figures, and ASUS uses it in the consumer electronics space. There's also another aspect to trademarks that makes lawsuits such as these common. If a company fails to protect its trademark, it can lose it. As the word 'transformer' is a common word, there's a lot of leeway into its use. However, adding 'prime' into the mix, another word that's heavily associated with Hasbro's product, starts causing a lot of overlap.
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All true. I was actually referring to the word 'Infinity' though. :p I don't think 'Transformer Pad Infinity' infringes or causes confusion with either Hasbro or Disney's products.
 
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YoungGun21

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Hmmm..Where do they plan on going with the next generation though. Can't really go higher than infinity
 
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No mSD, no care.
Dammit companies, stop trying to force us to pay $100 for 16GB of additional local storage when we could pay $110 for 64GB (or $45 for a high speed 32GB card) with a very simple spec difference.
 
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Mopetar

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YoungGun21 said:
Hmmm..Where do they plan on going with the next generation though. Can't really go higher than infinity
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Maybe this one is only countably infinite and the next one will be uncountable. They could still go higher that way, but it would probably just confuse people.
 
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alent1234

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yeah, when does it the specs are weak

when asus is doing it then they are geniuses for not cranking up the GHz
 
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I honestly don't feel like you're going to get good consistent frame rates on a 1080p screen with what is essentially last year's hardware (Tegra 3 has been developed well over a year ago). The original Transformer Prime just manages to pump out smooth frame rates at 720p. Maybe I'm completely wrong and the extra 300mhz between all 4 cores is just enough to cover it. I'm saving up to purchase an Android tablet down the road but my gut feeling tells me to wait until the end of this year when the new iteration of Arm Quad core processors have reached mass market and internal ram is increased to at least 2gb.
 
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