I got the 64gb champagne prime the other day and it's very likely going back; I'm going to hold out for ICS and see if that fixes the issues I have with it, if not I'll be returning it (I doubt ICS will fix it though as the GPS and wifi issues appear to be 100% hardware design flaws).
Issues:
-GPS is useless, only when there are zero obstructions between sky and device does it work, and even then the signals are low
-Wifi is a joke on it. The only place in the house where I get 100% signal strength is standing right next to the router, if I walk 5 feet away signal drops immediately, 20 feet away and it's barely hanging onto the signal, any further no signal (wireless N)
-Web browsing is slower and clunkier than a 1st gen iPad (compared side by side with the iPad I was wanting to replace with the Prime)
-Streaming video (Netflix) is not anywhere near HD or even DVD quality, my 1st gen iPad was clear as a a bell at the same time the prime (same movie, same place in the movie, same connection etc) was at best VHS qualtiy.
-Today it's sprung a new issue with email, a security warning that I found a fix for (removing devices from exchange sync list), that fix resolved the security error but it wouldn't actually sync email, just gave me the blue ring forever, even after restarts. Finally deleted the account and tried to set it up again, but it wouldn't complete setup saying it couldn't communicate with the server (and the servers fine, it's an Apptix exchange account). So did a factory reset and still cannot setup the account, just won't work.
-Randomly getting force close errors too
I called ASUS support, their only solution is to send it in to them but they couldn't say what they would do to fix it or how long it would take. I don't want to end up passing my return window on it, so not doing that.
This is a really nice piece of hardware, and usually in my experience ASUS puts out top notch stuff, but this, this is just really really lacking in functionality. The specs are there as well as the design, quite good but jesus couldn't they finish it off by ensuring it WORKED?
Issues:
-GPS is useless, only when there are zero obstructions between sky and device does it work, and even then the signals are low
-Wifi is a joke on it. The only place in the house where I get 100% signal strength is standing right next to the router, if I walk 5 feet away signal drops immediately, 20 feet away and it's barely hanging onto the signal, any further no signal (wireless N)
-Web browsing is slower and clunkier than a 1st gen iPad (compared side by side with the iPad I was wanting to replace with the Prime)
-Streaming video (Netflix) is not anywhere near HD or even DVD quality, my 1st gen iPad was clear as a a bell at the same time the prime (same movie, same place in the movie, same connection etc) was at best VHS qualtiy.
-Today it's sprung a new issue with email, a security warning that I found a fix for (removing devices from exchange sync list), that fix resolved the security error but it wouldn't actually sync email, just gave me the blue ring forever, even after restarts. Finally deleted the account and tried to set it up again, but it wouldn't complete setup saying it couldn't communicate with the server (and the servers fine, it's an Apptix exchange account). So did a factory reset and still cannot setup the account, just won't work.
-Randomly getting force close errors too
I called ASUS support, their only solution is to send it in to them but they couldn't say what they would do to fix it or how long it would take. I don't want to end up passing my return window on it, so not doing that.
This is a really nice piece of hardware, and usually in my experience ASUS puts out top notch stuff, but this, this is just really really lacking in functionality. The specs are there as well as the design, quite good but jesus couldn't they finish it off by ensuring it WORKED?
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