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CyanogenMod 9 coming soon to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime

Now that Asus has provided a way to unlock the bootloader on the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, we’re starting to see people loading custom firmware on the tablet. Earlier we showed what Ubuntu Linux looks like on the Transformer Prime. Now the folks at Androidroot.mobi have posted a tool for installing ClockworkMod Recovery and […]

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Official Eee Pad Transformer Prime bootloader unlock available

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is a 10 inch Android tablet with a quad-core processor and an optional keyboard docking station… and a locked bootloader. That means you can’t install custom firmware on the tablet unless you unlock the bootloader — and as promised, Asus has just released a tool that will let you […]

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Asus Eee Transformer Prime software update improves GPS

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the most powerful Android tablet currently available thanks to its quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor. But the tablet has at least one major flaw: Early users have reported that the included GPS receiver doesn’t work very well. Asus initially responded by removing GPS from the list of the […]

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Android 4.0 for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime coming today

NVIDIA has announced that Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be available for the Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet starting today. That’s three days ahead of schedule. We’d previously heard that the software update would be available on January 12th. The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the first tablet to ship with an NVIDIA […]

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First look at the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime 1080p tablet – video

Asus is showing off a new version of the Transformer Prime tablet with a high resolution 1920 x 1200 pixel display and a 2MP front-facing camera. The rest of the specifications for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF700T are identical to the TF201 model launched in late 2011. Both tablets have 1.3 GHz NVIDIA Tegra […]

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Android 4.0 for the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime coming January 12th

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the first tablet to ship with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. Soon it will also be one of the first to receive an official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software update. While the tablet hit the streets in late 2011 with Android 3.2 Honeycomb, Asus says it […]

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Asus is preparing a Transformer Prime bootloader unlocking tool

Asus is promising to release a tool that will allow customers unlock the bootloaders on their Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablets. That will make it easier for users to modify the tablet by installing custom ROMs or other software. While this isn’t something that most Android phone or tablet users are interested in doing, there’s […]

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime’s locked bootloader means no custom ROMS (for now)

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime has generated an awful lot of lust among Android tablet enthusiasts. It’s the first device to ship with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. It has an excellent camera (if you want to use a 10 inch tablet to snap photos). And there’s an optional keyboard dock which lets […]

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime now available from Best Buy for $500

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the first tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. The 10 inch tablet went on sale recently, but sold out rather quickly. Now retailer Best Buy has more units in stock and available for $499.99. The company says units usually ship within a day. The tablets are […]

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Asus starts shipping Transformer Prime tablet, more coming in January

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the first product to ship with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. The 10 inch Android tablet also has a 1280 x 800 pixel IPS display, 1GB of RAM, and 32GB to 64GB of storage — and customers can pick up an optional keyboard dock that transforms the […]