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[Q] Transformers at Best Buy

Has anyone's Best Buy had the Transformer on display? I've been to two of mine and have not seen any.
I'm trying to decide between this and the Galaxy 10.1 but I can't find any Transformers to help me make my decision.
Has anyone had any luck with other retailers having these on display?

I don't know where you live but in Virginia the HH Gregg stores have them on display and functional.

I was at the Honolulu best buy yesterday and they had one on display. I had been waiting to try one in person before making a decision, and although their in store wifi was super spotty, I was very impressed. Although when I checked the settings menus, the demo TF was running 3.0.1 and the demo galaxy tab 10.1 was running 3.1.

glittler said:
Has anyone's Best Buy had the Transformer on display? I've been to two of mine and have not seen any.
I'm trying to decide between this and the Galaxy 10.1 but I can't find any Transformers to help me make my decision.
Has anyone had any luck with other retailers having these on display?
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MicroCenter If u have any near u.

I was at Best Buy yesterday near Nashville, TN and asked about one. The salesman said they didn't have any and as I was leaving he caught me and found 1, (16gb) in the box. I don't know why they didn't have it on display. He did open it up, turn it on and let me look at it but would not pull the plastic off. Said they would not carry the 32 gb. I just bought one of the 32 gb at Amazon for $479.00

I'm heading over to the US in a few days, and was thinking I might use the opportunity to pick up either an Asus EEE / Samsung GT 10.1, or possibly an iPad2. Even once you add in sales tax (Mass.) and credit card exchange rates, they still look to be about ~£100 less than the equivalent in the UK.
Hopefully best buy will have some stock when I visit, but I hear that the service you get there is not too great generally?

or try COMPUSA they seem to have it in stock in S Florida

If you have frys by you they have em on display

None at best buy in york Pa. In fact every time i ask about them they point me to the acer tablet. Stupid non informed best buy employees.
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they recently restocked most best buys here in new york city. finally got my dock

i was at best buy this morning and i didnt see them on display (unless i missed it) but i know they had at least 11 in stock.--dearborn, MI

I bought mine when they were sold out. Toys r us had them somehow. Regret the purchase though as my light bleed seems to be getting worse.
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Just saw the Transformer and Galaxy Tab 10.1 at Best Buy in TN

They have the icona,transformer,tab 10.1 and hp touchpad in indianapolis best buys
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Yeah in Utah we really only have Best Buys. I'll try the other BB in our area and maybe the TRU. Thanks for the help. I wish we had more electronic stores.

Go to Toys R US
Bunch of Asus transformers at the toys r us. I got my dock there as well. and they have the asus sleeve.

[Update 25/10/11] Release date NOW UNCERTAIN for Galaxy Note!

Further update: date now uncertain, may be early November, may slip back towards initial mid-November date.

FFS! 495 Gbp to euro + taxes = +/- 700€ in my country... thats almost 2x the minimum wage / salary.
Too damn expensive.

I have to agree. And we all know that there'll be an even better phone
released, less than a year later, and we'll all want that one too...

£478.99 exc VAT on 31st October at Handtech

If this phone follows the trend, there should be a big price drop in 3 - 4 months. I can wait.

This phone will be awesome. I have tablets, but I still do most of my news reading on my current 4" screen LG G2X phone. I don't know why Samsung had to market this for women. Anyways, the 1.4ghz dual core and battery capacity is probably one of the best in the whole phone industry right now.

Com'on US release...

I don't really understand why you looking for prize drops. In 4 month there is something else you want and you have to wait again Do you ever buy phones?

lol, that's why I still have an HD2 right now. In 4 months, there might be an even bigger phone than the note.

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lol, that's why I still have an HD2 right now. In 4 months, there might be an even bigger phone than the note.
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there is already one .
galaxy tab 7.7 has phone in it ...

That's almost. 900 USD...damnnn
That being said, I wish it would be released here
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release now looking like mid November (hopefully)
Clove Uk has revised their release date to "to be confirmed" from stock expected about November 1. Clove "hopes" to ship mid November. They are waiting for Samsung to tell them when they will have the product delivered to their warehouse. It is very possible phone will be delayed so it can ship with Ice Cream on board (rumor.)

The price of a smartphone (Galaxy SII) bought outright (unlocked, expensive than phone price on contract) which includes tax and gst here in Australia is roughly 425 GBP.
At 425 GBP, the SGNote is NOT CHEAP, but I would buy it in a heartbeat, but not a penny more. The baseline for smartphone outright price has been 400-450GBP in Australia for sometime, I think its unfair to exceed that.

http://stores.ebay.com/KICKmobiles-Ltd?_trksid=p4340.l2563
This ebay store will sell you a pre-order.

I'm so torn between the Note and the Nexus.
At the moment I've preordered the Nexus but I dont know... I would realy like the bigger screen and the sd-card slot on the Note.
Might end up with both...
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And now I've both preordered. Think I'll go for the Note. I just hope that it will get ICS fast.
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Leaning towards getting both now =) So my wife get a shiny new phone to (but the sgs2 she have now is not to bad either)
Gonna try them both out and then I'll take the one i like most and my wife get the reject

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Im so torn between the Note and the Nexus.
At the moment I've preordered the Nexus but I dont know... I would realy like the bigger screen and the sd-card slot on the Note.
Might end up with both...
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LOL i am in the same boat as you

The Nexus is nice but I'm majorly swayed by the screen size on the Note and the stylus input.

I think most people looking at both nexus and note, Had both pre-ordered but cancelled the nexus. Only NFC and ICS missing on the note. I dont need NFC for three to five years. (might be payment method world wide). but who knows? ICS, i still think we will see that on the note sometime next year...

Brilliant short clip showing how good the Note is for video editing and annotation. This is one awesome tablet phone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fhuyJIj5ZBo

Ooh, thanks for that - nice!

Factory refurb SGT 7 (cdma your choice of vzw or sprint) on woot today!

The daily deal website Woot.com (trusted, i've ordered quite a few things from them in the past, they are great) has original 7" Galaxy Tab CDMA units on sale (your choice of sprint or verizon) for $199 +$5 shipping.
seems like a great deal considering that I paid $350 on ebay for a well cared for tmobile SGT 7" about 3 months ago, and that seemed like the general used going rate. (honestly i feel a little insulted that it can be had for such a low rate now).
anyhow, just wanted to let people know about a great deal if you guys are interested. I am in no way affiliated with woot, just a happy past customer who is always out for a great deal.
http://deals.woot.com/sellout
also, btw, woot only keeps it's deals up for 24 hours max (or until they sell out of units), so if you're interested: the sooner, the better.

I JUST bought mine... it was too good to pass up, even if the model is not a good one for flashing on, which im sure it is because i've been looking at a 7inch tablet for a while now, it was too good a deal for a 16gb 7in for me to pass.

i got 2. one for my GF one for my Dad. I have a 10.1 and love it. A little dissapointed that it only has gingerbread but i guess thats because it is single core.
I was going to get my GF the Amazon Fire but a full tablet for the same price seems like the way to go.
not going to activate 3g though. wifi is fine.

Maybe the fact that Woot just sold 1500 CDMA tabs to a (generally) tech-savvy audience will spur some additional CDMA tab development ... never know!

Just pick up the a500 at bestbuy 8gb 229

just pick the 8 gb a500 for 243.33 with taxes it was the last one sitting at the bottom as soon as i saw it i ask him to grab it and tell me the price long and behold 229 greatest gift for me

tmacgarris6727 said:
just pick the 8 gb a500 for 243.33 with taxes it was the last one sitting at the bottom as soon as i saw it i ask him to grab it and tell me the price long and behold 229 greatest gift for me
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nice score!

Nice find, i got a 64GB version for $399.
I could only find the 8GB for $300.. so it was kind of a no brainer for me.
I don't mind buying the older hardware like the A500. Sure newer better stuff will be coming out soon, but the a500 is good enough to last a year or two and perform well. Compare the $450 at release for the 8GB model with a few bugs in honeycomb 3.0 and acers implementation, to the super smooth 3.2 that you picked up for $229 (almost half price).
There was a time when i would aim to buy the newest and greatest. But theres always something newer, and always something greater. It seems more reasonable to wait until the kinks have been worked out, and there is a sale.

i also got my 8gb A500 from best buy for that same exact price on cyber monday. so far im very happy with the purchase!

Good find! I got mine from BB - the 8GB model for $230. I wish I got one six months earlier. Acer did a great job, and the full size USB port is awesome.

Nice find! I got mine at staples on black friday at 4 a.m for $299

starfcker69 said:
Good find! I got mine from BB - the 8GB model for $230. I wish I got one six months earlier. Acer did a great job, and the full size USB port is awesome.
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if u would have gotten it six months earlier and paid 450 for it, you lucky bastard

mythek88 said:
i also got my 8gb A500 from best buy for that same exact price on cyber monday. so far im very happy with the purchase!
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More like cyber Sunday

BrianDigital said:
if u would have gotten it six months earlier and paid 450 for it, you lucky bastard
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I believe I could have gotten it for $400 5 or 6 months ago, and in retrospect wish I had. It's a great tablet.

I got the same model. I wish I had gotten a 16gb, but for the price this is very good.

I picked it up for the same price from Best Buy and I love it. Sure, it's only 8GB, but I have a 32GB card in it, 2x16GB Thumb Drives I picked up cheap, and a 1TB Buffalo drive that works fine with it. More storage than I could ever need for the tablet!
I picked up a USB hub for it and I can use the netbook mouse and a combination of the storage with it. I have a USB memory card reader that works as well. Nice being able to shoot pics on my DSLR and then edit them with PS Touch on the tablet.
Running the Honeylicious rom with ADW Launcher EX customized into a tab type of interface. Mizuu (the paid version does have the stacked icons on the home screen) gives me the movies from the storage.
All in all a great friggin tablet! I don't do alot of "gaming" tablet wise really so I doubt I will upgrade this thing unless Tegra 3 tablets really hit sub $300 mid 2012 like predicted.

Plan to buy the transformer

Hello everybody,
Recently i have been looking at a load of tablets as I am interested in buying one soon. Now I al interested in the iPad 2, the Sony tablet s and the Asus transformer + WiFi.
I want to have a tablet to watch movies, play games, read books and make notes. And I just like the look and specs of this tablet as far as I could have seen and read.
I would like to know from you guys if there are things you dislike about the device or totally love. I have used the Sony tablet s and the ipad 2 but can't get my hands on this device. So Any feedback from you guys is welcome.
Regards
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I love it. But only thing that i dislike is the Frame around the glass. It makes some sound if you "bend" it and stuff.. But nothing else to complain and the Prize $ is just great..
Also one problem is light bleed that i only have in 1 corner and its small and i really cant see it but in dark and when im watching movie but i doesnt bother me anymore at all : P
And eaven tf101 only has 2 cores its amazing fast afted ICS : P
-This is just My opinion.....

I bought myself a Transformer Prime for Christmas. Returned it after the GPS and wifi problems, bought a Lenovo K1 at a deal. It was slow and buggy and Lenovo's arrogance was overwhelming, with support totally lacking, so I returned it. I bought a barely used mint Transformer TF101 32GB with keyboard, locally for $325. It has no light bleed or any other problems and I love it!
The Prime was my biggest disappointment. But the original Transformer has restored my faith in Asus!

Wow.. my story is pretty much exactly the same as thomslik's.. except I payed $350.. grrr..
Anyway, I'm loving my TF101 and, for me, the ICS update has been problem free.
I would NOT recommend getting the iPad 2, it's much more limited than Android tablets.. especially with the keyboard dock on the Transformer.

The transformer is great not a problem out of it. I was gonna get the ipad 3rd generation but I don't want a big ipod that's all it is.

I like it. Good screen and fast. I wouldn't pay more then 300 for it at this point tho.

Best device i have ever brought myself so far i have a tiny bit of light bleed but everything else is perfect.
Its fast and does all the things you want to use it for also very very customisable i use a custom launcher themes apps system and kernel all to my preference
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I like it. Good screen and fast. I wouldn't pay more then 300 for it at this point tho.
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It still sells just about everywhere for 399 brand new. Why do you feel the price isn't justified now? Any reason besides having been out for a while? I think for what it offers compared to other tabs it has held its value quite well.

Kadin said:
It still sells just about everywhere for 399 brand new. Why do you feel the price isn't justified now? Any reason besides having been out for a while? I think for what it offers compared to other tabs it has held its value quite well.
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Because it will become outdated pretty soon. It's almost at the end of the one year cycle.
If anyone, living in the USA, buys a TF101 for $399 at this point, they have some terrible shopping skills. Refurbs are at $300 or lower. Even brand new 16GB ones are around $350.
I got mine "Used - Like new" from Amazon for like $240 a couple months ago.

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Because it will become outdated pretty soon. It's almost at the end of the one year cycle.
If anyone, living in the USA, buys a TF101 for $399 at this point, they have some terrible shopping skills. Refurbs are at $300 or lower. Even brand new 16GB ones are around $350.
I got mine "Used - Like new" from Amazon for like $240 a couple months ago.
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I bought mine on the 17th from Fry's as they price matched an online site that was selling it for $349 w/ free shipping. I will say this site (bhphotovideo.com) was the only site I could find that was that cheap and not a refurb. Every other one I found short of eBay, who I refuse to use, was right around $399.
And not to split hairs but to that point, $350>$300 which is what I was originally quoting. My point is old or not, if the product still currently sits well compared to what's out now, I think it's worth it.
I'm just trying to determine whether to hold onto mine at this point but that's for another discussion...

Kadin said:
I bought mine on the 17th from Fry's as they price matched an online site that was selling it for $349 w/ free shipping. I will say this site (bhphotovideo.com) was the only site I could find that was that cheap and not a refurb. Every other one I found short of eBay, who I refuse to use, was right around $399.
And not to split hairs but to that point, $350>$300 which is what I was originally quoting. My point is old or not, if the product still currently sits well compared to what's out now, I think it's worth it.
I'm just trying to determine whether to hold onto mine at this point but that's for another discussion...
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So you paid $350 + tax, which is around $380.
Not worth it in my opinion. You probably don't realize it now because you just got it and it feels new to you.

horndroid said:
So you paid $350 + tax, which is around $380.
Not worth it in my opinion. You probably don't realize it now because you just got it and it feels new to you.
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Yeah. My only other option it seemed right now was either a Galaxy Tab or iPad 2 and the latter option is really not a consideration, but it was within the price range.
I'm digging the unit but as you said, it's all new to me. I'd love to see something solid on the near horizon as it might convince me to return this and wait but so far it's all just rumors and speculation.

Acer's quad core tablet is on presale for $449.99
In 2-3 months you will see 7 inch quad cores for $250.
Android 5.0 coming out in Fall.
So it depends on how badly you want a tablet right now.

Thanks everybody, I just ordered the 101 version without 3g, it is 400 euro in holland. But for the same price you get the ipad 2 or the Sony tablet. So I think its worth the price.
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the iPad 2 is really nice but with the transformer you can install roms like nintendo 64, ps2, etc and play for hours on end. the whole stretch thing is pretty retarded with the iPad 2 and after a while really annoying.
I love both but if I could only have one it'd definitely be the transformer.
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