Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 16 GB

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  8 out of 10

Summary: The 10.1-inch Asus Eee Pad Transformer is a great Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, but it's the cleverly designed keyboard dock that makes it really stand out from the crowd. While not perfect, the Transformer's competitive price tag makes it well worth considering.

Short extract: The 10.1-inch Asus Eee Pad Transformer is a great Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, but it's the cleverly designed keyboard dock that makes it really stand out from the crowd. While not perfect, the Transformer's competitive price tag makes it well worth considering.

Conclusion: The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is a quirky machine, but it really impressed us. Well designed and well constructed, this machine proves that physical keyboards can play well with Android tablets, while still being a great Honeycomb slate in its own right.

• Sturdy build quality, Great display, Good keyboard and trackpad, Impressive battery life
• Some apps don't work with the keyboard, Not fast enough to play hi-def video, Hard to find good Android Honeycomb apps

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  8 out of 10

Short extract: The market is now full of just-launched Android Honeycomb tablets, but none of them have quite managed to stand up to the iPad. Until, that is, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, which has taken the game up a notch. This is no ordinary tablet; it's a tablet-to-PC model - and one that actually works.

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  8 out of 10

Short extract: An Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet with a detachable keyboard - a perfect match for business users or a chunky compromise that doesn't suit anyone? David Ludlow flexes his fingers and finds out in our review.

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  9 out of 10

Summary: The Eee Pad Transformer may just be the best Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet out there.

• High-quality IPS display, Excellent keyboard integration, Great design and value
• Honeycomb-optimised apps are sparse, Android 3.0 is a tad buggy, No standard USB slot on tablet

• electricpig.co.uk

  8 out of 10

Summary: We didn't know Asus had it in them. A cracking tablet with some caveats.

Short extract: When we first saw the Asus Eee Pad Transformer back at CES in January, we never anticipated that Asus would get it on sale so quickly. We expected it to be just another of Asus’ harebrained schemes that never really quite came off, and yet here we are, three months on, and we’re holding not just the...

Conclusion: Asus has been trying to break into the mobile category for a long time, and rarely with much critical success. We’d say that with the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, it’s finally cracked it, and at a superb asking price.

• Fantastic screen for the price, Honeycomb has been sensibly tweaked
• No more attractive than the Xoom