I was angling for an Android device for a long time in a Mac/PC household. Having played with my wife's iPad2, I wanted the device to be a tablet. The specs of the ASUS Transformer Prime TF-201 looked highly promising, and armed with the tax return, I took the plunge. Newegg delivered the device in three days flat, and having charged it the mandatory 8+ hours, I am now playing with it. Because I am an Android newbie, I expected to experience trouble with it - and sure enough, that is happening. I hope folks here would be kind enough to help me out.
I have downloaded updates (the firmware says 9.4.2.21), apps (including, of course, all four free versions of Angry Birds) and stuff. I have figured out how to make groups from icons (same as in iOS, it appears). I have downloaded and installed the EEPad PC Suite (from ASUS Support) in my Windows 7 PC, although I found that it is not very useful - particularly since it is v-e-r-y slow, at least for file functions.
Initially the TF-201 seemed to be pretty fast, as I had expected it to be. But I've already noticed weird glitches, time lags, performance issues. The apps that I have used so far, including the mail apps (both the native mail client, and the apps for Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail), are behaving oddly; the interfaces seem not quite as optimized as it is in iOS5.1 (I am sorry about these comparisons; as a fresh Android adopter, I have no other basis of comparison. Please bear with me).
Again, on one hand, the ability to use Flash in the browser is nice, but on the other hand, the non-inclusion of a good unicode-compliant non-English Foreign Language font is cramping my style, because I use such fonts often. It's particularly odd, since the use of this font works out rather well even in Google's Chromebook CR-48. Not so in the TF-201, where somehow even Google's own Transliteration IME doesn't work.
I hope sincerely folks here would not mind my asking for suggestions from time to time for different aspects of Android.
I have downloaded updates (the firmware says 9.4.2.21), apps (including, of course, all four free versions of Angry Birds) and stuff. I have figured out how to make groups from icons (same as in iOS, it appears). I have downloaded and installed the EEPad PC Suite (from ASUS Support) in my Windows 7 PC, although I found that it is not very useful - particularly since it is v-e-r-y slow, at least for file functions.
Initially the TF-201 seemed to be pretty fast, as I had expected it to be. But I've already noticed weird glitches, time lags, performance issues. The apps that I have used so far, including the mail apps (both the native mail client, and the apps for Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail), are behaving oddly; the interfaces seem not quite as optimized as it is in iOS5.1 (I am sorry about these comparisons; as a fresh Android adopter, I have no other basis of comparison. Please bear with me).
Again, on one hand, the ability to use Flash in the browser is nice, but on the other hand, the non-inclusion of a good unicode-compliant non-English Foreign Language font is cramping my style, because I use such fonts often. It's particularly odd, since the use of this font works out rather well even in Google's Chromebook CR-48. Not so in the TF-201, where somehow even Google's own Transliteration IME doesn't work.
I hope sincerely folks here would not mind my asking for suggestions from time to time for different aspects of Android.
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