ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 2

Thanks for the help guys, regarding the text appearance.

I went to buy one but no where had any :(

UK retailers really are pathetic, it's been out for near enough two weeks now and it's not exactly an Apple product that's been advertised left, right and centre and has overnight queues to buy one.

The guys in purple had a live one out on display but no stock. Also my local CPW know nothing about the device and can't give me an ETA. You would think being in a tough trading environment, they would be trying to maximise current sales potential but I suppose this gives them an easy excuse for sales being down year on year.

I'm going to wait now for the upgraded Prime and by then, other tablets might be announced/released; giving more choice.
 
I'm leading towards the Prime compared to the Tab 7.7 due to it's versatility. Really like Asus's whole design concept and execution of the Prime.

Final decision will be made as soon I see what's available at MWC, mayyyyybe even before :D
 
Mekrel said:
You would think being in a tough trading environment, they would be trying to maximise current sales potential but I suppose this gives them an easy excuse for sales being down year on year.
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You can't expect them to know about every single product and to be fair the Transformer Prime is hardly going to be a massive seller is it. It's an expensive niche product which hasn't had much promotion from the relatively unknown (to the public) manufacturer. Not exactly going to fly off the shelves. If loads of people (or any?) had asked about it before then your CPW staff would have heard of it, it just shows how few they will sell in retail stores and the companies

Blame Asus not the retailers who seem to have got it spot on regarding the Transformer Prime.
 
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Em3bbs said:
You can't expect them to know about every single product and to be fair the Transformer Prime is hardly going to be a massive seller is it. It's an expensive niche product which hasn't had much promotion from the relatively unknown (to the public) manufacturer. Not exactly going to fly off the shelves. If loads of people (or any?) had asked about it before then your CPW staff would have heard of it, it just shows how few they will sell in retail stores and the companies

Blame Asus not the retailers who seem to have got it spot on regarding the Transformer Prime.
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Of course I can expect them to know about every single product. Where else am I supposed to expect to be sold a top of the range tablet other than your high street retailer that only sells electronics, computers, audio visual and white goods?

They're supposed to be specialists and it's one of the areas where they can compete over the multiple grocers as they clearly can't over price. Maybe it the staff were trained well enough instead of being told to lie to consumers about HDMI cables, they might sell more.

I work in the FMCG business and I deal with buyers on a daily basis and it's clear to me that the buyers in some of these high street retailers do not know the categories they're supposed to be driving trade with.

Take for example O2 who signed up to an exclusivity with the Palm Pre, which fell completely flat on its face and was the final nail in the coffin for Palm. They tied crap loads of working capital into Palm Pre stock that just sat there not selling out of their stores. That cash could have been used to bring the HTC Desire in much earlier, which was the most sort after Android device at the time and O2 were the last to get it in.
 
Okay, I touched on reading that, but what where the exact issus with Video playback..are we talking streaming problems like with YT and the like...or say xVid playback issues with videos transferred over?
 
Mekrel said:
Take for example O2 who signed up to an exclusivity with the Palm Pre, which fell completely flat on its face and was the final nail in the coffin for Palm. They tied crap loads of working capital into Palm Pre stock that just sat there not selling out of their stores. That cash could have been used to bring the HTC Desire in much earlier, which was the most sort after Android device at the time and O2 were the last to get it in.
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There are many reasons that operators don't get phones in earlier, lack of cash isn't one of them. O2 sold plenty of new phones in between the Palm Pre and Desire launches, it's just they were still very much leaning towards iPhones back then. Don't forget back then other Android phones had been a huge disappointment like the Samsung Galaxy (which incidently came out between Palm Pre and Desire and was available on O2).

But anyway, back to the subject, as I said the retailers look to have got this one right as the current market stands. If it was a much requested item the staff would have heard of it.
 
Em3bbs said:
There are many reasons that operators don't get phones in earlier, lack of cash isn't one of them. O2 sold plenty of new phones in between the Palm Pre and Desire launches, it's just they were still very much leaning towards iPhones back then. Don't forget back then other Android phones had been a huge disappointment like the Samsung Galaxy (which incidently came out between Palm Pre and Desire and was available on O2).

But anyway, back to the subject, as I said the retailers look to have got this one right as the current market stands. If it was a much requested item the staff would have heard of it.
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Yes there are many reasons but no one had an exclusive with the Desire and working capital is always important to manage in any business. Doesn't matter if they sold other phones, they would have sold them regardless of the Palm Pre being in store or not; but they were still the only operator to buy stock of the dreadful Palm Pre that no one wanted.

There was a report I read back in 2010 that outlined the value of stock shipped out by Palm and the value of stock sold and it was shocking.

They've not got it right. They stock it, they had a display model out but they had no stock; therefore they lost a sale. Availability is King. Simple rule of retail.

As I said, these shops are destination retailers for these kind of products and destination retailers stock the tail end of ranges (i.e. those that aren't the best sellers). It's exactly the same with Boots being a health and beauty retailer and they stock pretty much 80% of products in each category where as Tesco will probably stock about 40% in their larger stores and even less in the smaller formats.
 
We'll I had a play with my dads Prime yesterday and it felt really good. The wife however thinks that it's too small and as a result wouldn't want to get rid of the Original Macbook Air we have. That means while I can still get the Prime I wouldn't be able to get any money back by selling the Air which means is a more difficult decision. I have the money and it's no issue financially, but all the time we have the Air I don't really have a need for the Prime too.

On another note I wonder how long it'll be before tablets stop coming with a large bezel like that though. Hopefully more start doing things like Samsung have with the Nexus by making the entire front of the phone the screen with black bits that work as buttons but also can vanish to make the screen larger.
 
kona786 said:
Bezel is larger than normal on the prime so it can be the same size as the dock.

Did the Prime feel smooth and fast? was it running ICS?
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They could have made the viewable screen larger and had a smaller bezel is what I mean. I see no reason why tablets functionally should have a 1" bloody border around the viewable screen.

And yes it was on ICS and running beautifully :)
 
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