How many of you returning your prime?

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I just got mine earlier today. I have to say that I am definitely not among the most unlucky people who receive units with lots of defects. But the issues are enough for me to decide to return it and get refund. Too bad, I was so eagerly anticipating this thing.

Back light bleeding: I know that every LCD product have some back light bleeding more or less. But this one I got is just too obvious, whenever I have some dark background.

WiFi: This is actually the real killer. It is really substandard performance. I think it's nowhere near a decent tablet from the Wifi performance. I initially tested in my room, < 10ft from the router. My MBP gives around DL 20Mbps, -46dBm, while TBP gives less than 12.5Mbps most of the time with about < -55dBm and quite unstable. i can live with it. But i did it in another room, around 20ft with 2 walls in between , TBP drops to < 3.5Mbps immediately. Horrible. that's only 20ft away. A tablet such wifi performance is unacceptable for me. I don't see myself constantly standing within 10ft from a router during my travel or in my campus. that just kills it.

Maybe some people have no problem with WiFi or whatsoever. If you get decent DL speed at >= 25ft with walls in between, you are lucky. I am talking about comparable speed with netbooks or 802.11n tablets, like TF101, not something > 50% lower. I personally think it's a design flaw.


GPS: A lot of people have problem with this one. I have no complain about it. Somehow I am lucky. The one i got was able to lock within about a minuite when i go outdoor. It finds 8 or 9 satellite very quickly and located me with in 50m. I tried gps fix, gps essential, etc. all works. I did a hard reset and switched off wifi during all these. So, I assure you that there are units with good GPS, and not everyone who voted "Yes" had no clue.

Originally Posted by nonnot

I just got mine earlier today. I have to say that I am definitely not among the most unlucky people who receive units with lots of defects. But the issues are enough for me to decide to return it and get refund. Too bad, I was so eagerly anticipating this thing.

Back light bleeding: I know that every LCD product have some back light bleeding more or less. But this one I got is just too obvious, whenever I have some dark background.

WiFi: This is actually the real killer. It is really substandard performance. I think it's nowhere near a decent tablet from the Wifi performance. I initially tested in my room, < 10ft from the router. My MBP gives around DL 20Mbps, -46dBm, while TBP gives less than 12.5Mbps most of the time with about < -55dBm and quite unstable. i can live with it. But i did it in another room, around 20ft with 2 walls in between , TBP drops to < 3.5Mbps immediately. Horrible. that's only 20ft away. A tablet such wifi performance is unacceptable for me. I don't see myself constantly standing within 10ft from a router during my travel or in my campus. that just kills it.

Maybe some people have no problem with WiFi or whatsoever. If you get decent DL speed at >= 25ft with walls in between, you are lucky. I am talking about comparable speed with netbooks or 802.11n tablets, like TF101, not something > 50% lower. I personally think it's a design flaw.


GPS: A lot of people have problem with this one. I have no complain about it. Somehow I am lucky. The one i got was able to lock within about a minuite when i go outdoor. It finds 8 or 9 satellite very quickly and located me with in 50m. I tried gps fix, gps essential, etc. all works. I did a hard reset and switched off wifi during all these. So, I assure you that there are units with good GPS, and not everyone who voted "Yes" had no clue.

I would never return it's amazing

I'll return it if there is no root, Prime no root = Prime is rusty, can't transform to anything

I don't blame you. With faulty wifi this thing is useless. The Prime is clearly not a tablet for use at Uni. If you can't study while eating lunch more than 30 ft away from the nearest AP Extender, it's a piece of crap. Point blank.

Doubt is starting to creep in my mind... i don't know, what do you think...

Wait for my 64 GB grey Prime, which has a ETA of 1/9/2012.
or
Get a 64 GB iPad2 w/ 3G on AT&T.

I did return my Prime because I have BIG issue with screen light leak . I can't believe they did not test there product before packing!! it was cost me $600 with tax + fast shipping. I'll wait for the 64gb and get it for the same price..

two thing I will pass on, GPS (come on, really you need the GPS on Tablet? maybe! I do have phone with me all the time I really believe who ever buying this gadget have smartphone too and it's faster to see where you are going through.. phone.. (again it's personal choice)

3G, I was really happy for not having 3G on my Prime. again where I live, I have wifi (Home, work) and mifi data card all the time I did not need to have extra charges for Data..

my Prime had pretty decent wifi connection.

Mine is getting replaced, but not returned. If I can't root the device, I'll think about returning it if I'm still within the return window.

If I got a wifi defective one, I would probably return it too. There's no point in having a shiny new tablet, if it can't connect to the internet very well.

My Prime gets around 34mbps downstream on speedtest
My Galaxy Note gets around 33mbps downstream on speedtest
My Laptop gets around 37mbps downstream

I'd say the receiver in my Prime is pretty decent.

this is how I'm going to tackle the wireless internet for the Prime.



strange enough that mifi device I bought Wednesday night shows was shipped and handled fast, it was over-nighted and FedEx have already made an attempt to contact me but I'm not at home but at work.


ASUS and the brick and mortar retailers need to learn from Verizon and Radio Shack on how to deliver a product.


In the meantime, I wont see my Prime to Tuesday, and the 32GB microSD and keyboard dock for another 2 weeks after.

I have been testing WiFi quite extensively and I will definitely be returning my current copy. Near the router (< 5 ft), I am getting around 15mbps, which is slower than my Mac Book or iPhone, but it is still acceptable. However; when I go to another room (still less than 20 ft and only one wall in between the router), my speed drops to less than 3mbps (iPhone and Mac Book are still rocking at 20mbps) and uplink drops to less than 100kbps. I also get a lot of connection failures and retries in the next room.

I don't see any use of this unit if I have to use it near to a router all the time. It is a shame that Asus (knowingly!) ruined such a fine hardware. I am in love with my unit, but without a good connectivity, what good is a tablet.