ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700T) Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 25, 2012 3:00 AM ESTBattery Life
The Transformer Pad Infinity features an integrated 25Wh battery, similar to the original Prime. You can obviously extend battery life by docking the Infinity into the optional keyboard dock.
Without an increase in battery capacity, you can expect a drop in battery life compared to the Transformer Prime as there's a leakier SoC, faster DRAM, higher resolution panel and brighter backlight to drive. The drop isn't huge, but it's noticeable:
While the original Prime pulled just under 9.5 hours, the Infinity borders on 8 hours of continuous use on a single charge. It's very similar to the battery life from the original Eee Pad Transformer, and better than what you can get out of a TF Pad 300. Eight hours isn't bad by any means, but it's the price you pay for maintaining portability while driving up performance/display.
Video playback battery life is thankfully quite respectable on the Infinity. I haven't had time to run the Prime and TF Pad 300 through our new tablet video playback test but at over 10.25 hours there's really nothing to complain about here. You can watch a few movies on a single charge, which is great for anyone stuck on a long haul flight.
For our gaming battery life test I'm not sure just how comparable the iOS/Android numbers are because it's quite likely that the NVIDIA hardware is actually doing more work here. But the important takeaway is the significant drop in battery life compared to the TF Prime. What we're likely seeing here is the penalty of the leakier SoC combined with the higher speed memory and increased memory bandwidth demands. If you're gaming on the Infinity, just plan on having a charger handy.
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semiconshawn - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
All that typing and nothing said. Well done.Miggleness - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
You sir, made my day. lol.I lost my Ipad 3 last week, just ordered one last night. But this one looks promising. WIsh it came out sooner as I'm an android fan myself, just not the android hardware i've been purchasing (Shame on you Motorola!)
Steelbom - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
I use my iPad 3 quite regularly and have never encountered any of the issues you've mentioned, you either had a defective unit or some really weird bugs which a restore might have fixed."being so technically incompetent you have to exactly double your pixel count each time because you can't code scaling graphics into your design"
What? Are you joking? Apple doubled the resolution so that everything would be seamless and as little effort as possible was required from developers.
sawilson - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
I think the problem is I was trying to use it as a desktop replacement, and it's not. It's a toy. I can remember my girlfriend saying "why do you do that so much?" when I was flipping between tasks and I was explaining it was because I was trying to five things at once and she was like "It can do that?" and I had to say "No, actually it can't". I was trying to use a toy to get work done. It was my own fault really.maximumGPU - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
Yeah it was your fault. she should dump you.ltphilpot - Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - link
Yet another troll post! I use my iPad to remotely manage 11 servers when I'm not on site, yup the iPad is just a toy!Belard - Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - link
Yes, it is your fault. You are holding it wrong :)Spunjji - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
So to make everything nice for developers, the customer gets stuck with an unnecessarily high resolution screen that makes web pages look like crap and lumps them with a thicker, heavier, power guzzling device that gets worse battery life than its predecessor.Yeah, that makes sense.
Shadowmaster625 - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
You can play bloons TD4 on an ipoop?sawilson - Monday, June 25, 2012 - link
You can until it locks up completely solid at around level 100 on extended play, or you have more than 10 supermonkeys on the screen. Unless I was holding it wrong or something.