The case of ASUS Transformer PAD Infinity and stepchildren

The Transformer Infinity came in a black box with roughly zero information content - or rather, I went for it and brought it home. There was nothing in the box other than the tablet and charger, but those two things are actually enough for me to use. Nor will I do anything with him other than shoot ugly green pigs with lifeless birds. It will take about two weeks to then nail a seemingly meaningful document in the remaining hour.

With tablets, such as e.g. Infinity, too, has the trouble of being the same. Almost. But what to expect from them is their name being tablet. With thin, slightly rounded corners, above the display, below it the sea aria. Yeah, no, that ship, there's the metal back underneath, between the two and the hardware.

So you can’t make a big one externally, the designers play with the angry birds for a few weeks, draw a tablet for the remaining 10 minutes, and then get paid again for six months. Do you remember no admission to the flooring department at ASUS? I already bought the pencil! Oops, then I forgot, if I’m already writing about the exterior, at least I’ll do enough to describe the dimensions. I mean the dimensions of the tablet. So 263 × 181 × 8,5 millimeters, where the last figure is not waist size but thickness. Or thinness, who likes that better. To this is added the weight of 586 grams, which is not enough to lift, but it is just enough to put it in the head of our anger. Don't try, I don't take responsibility for any accidents!

So the outside is average, not the inside! Of course, it doesn't hurt to rewrite that we're talking about a machine that's about 5 months old or a little "older." When he made his debut, everyone’s chin dropped, not because it’s a clone made by Stewie in Family Guy (whoever doesn’t have the scene, look for it).

So, one of the most important things is the display. As such, in its kind, compared to the competition, in the ring of classmates, as the pride of ASUS as a brand (I don’t think of any more idiots), so it’s certainly a display with full HD resolution. What’s more, it knows even more, as it has a resolution of 1920 × 1200 pixels, which is so faithful. In fact, anyone who wouldn’t have enough of that should cling to his chair now. This is definitely a Super IPS + panel. The plus in this case is not a mathematical operation, but the opposite of the minus sign, so there is something in it that would not be without the plus. And this is nothing but the Outdoor mode found in the settings, which the screen brightness is set to a high level and it consumes more battery power. This Turkish language is beautiful. So the point is to increase the brightness while eating the battery. In return, outside, where, say, the sun is shining - don’t even say I know it’s autumn - there’s a more visible, readable display.

What else do you need to know about the display? Of course, it is able to sense our fingers with capacitive technology, which, as we know, allows multi-finger and even ten-finger use. We would also cry if you could poke with just one finger and a pencil. Because the display is large and cannot be hidden so as not to damage it, ASUS used Gorilla Glass 2. If anyone didn’t know, this is the successor to Gorilla Glass 1. It doesn’t scratch if we want to scratch it directly, but if we take care of it, there will be some damage to it. That's how it was developed, I tested it, it's not true on Transformer.

The back cover, as I wrote, is also metal. It was polished in a circle with a process called brushed so that it would point somehow and not so much the fingerprint on it. I have bad news, after the garlic smoked pork tongue, my fingerprint was visible, but at least my stomach was full.

What I really liked, however, was the placement of the speaker. I noticed it when I was playing left-handed, so I grabbed the board with my right, poking it with my left. The music was playing, and it was just like when I put the speaker of the walkman’s headphones in my mouth as a child and where I opened and where I closed my mouth. It's like the music is coming from a cave. It’s not worth asking why I took the speaker in my mouth, probably because I put the Matchbox wheel in my nose. I was a kid, he was a little shocked.

I turned away from the topic. So the speaker is a bit silly, especially if you’re left-handed. If you’re right-handed, you’ll only cover it sometimes and only accidentally.

Here are the cameras. There are two of them, one in the front and how interesting, one in the back. The rear camera is more interesting, it's 8 megapixels, it can be used to make full HD movies, or, we have the option to take 3264 × 2448 pixel photos, for which we also get an LED flash. On the other hand, there is “only” a 2 megapixel camera, but this is not a surprise, it can be used for chat, this resolution is enough.

Let's see what holes we find on the side of the machine! In total, ASUS put six pieces on the cover for us. There is one where you can exchange data via USB cable, you can also charge here. Then there’s one where we can plug in a headset, one called microHDMI, that’s where the sox is made up, instead of the picture. Then there’s another one you can insert a microSD card in if you don’t have enough built-in storage or if you want to update your software.

Speaking of the exterior, I have to talk about one more thing, and that’s a keyboard that can be purchased with the previous version of Transformer, or, to put it another way, a dock. Docking because it’s not just a simple keyboard, it also has a battery pack to extend the running time of the Infinity. A practical solution, especially for those who want to use their machine not only for games, but also for work, say writing articles!