The Prime is by no means readily available in the marketplace yet, pre-orders are still waiting for deliveries and stock dates are in the 2-4 week range with most online retailers. So MAYBE the Prime will be readily available by beginning of FEBRUARY.

Now if Asus has learned anything from the CF they did with the Prime, they will have the TF700T available in numbers and in stock, and as they said it will be there “really soon”, so make that April 1st (no pun intended). They already have demo units out NOW.
I bet that thing is already in production or close to it.

I remember Asus said in November “We have no plans for a 3G model, maybe in the second HALF(!) of 2012 if we see demand.”

I also have a Prime, and I am EXTREMELY pi..ed off by Asus. I want a working GPS and this thing is not good enough to navigate. They offer 6 months more warranty on it as a courtesy, screw that. And in Germany where I am, they have now delayed ICS until the end of January.

This Prime “experience” is a tragedy with one new disappointment every day.

Help us out here, share the positives and keep the other crap and snide comments to yourself.  Thanks.  

They should have offered to replace the screwy metal backplate.  At the very least they should have offered it to their customers at cost at a ASUS service center.  I would have been happy and would be singing their praise.  Instead I now I feel like I am getting scr…. by them and frankly I, like Craig, am staying far away from ASUS.  Maybe I’ll get an apple and/or maybe I’ll get something less sexy but from a company that repects and  appreciates loyal customers.

I’ll probably just end up holding off for the introduction of Windows 8 tablets now.

I strongly sympathize with the Prime but since I would like to use it with Ubuntu as well (chroot with vnc), that 2GB RAM would be quite welcome.

If the K2 comes out with 2GB and a similar battery-keyboard-dock like the Prime, that will probably swing me to Lenovo.

This is a preemptive strike against the iPad3 and the Lenovo K2 which is known to come out with 2GB of RAM and 1080p-capable display.

Of course they could have waited a couple of weeks but they had to show something at CES.

$529 for a 16gb dualcore tablet? LOL. Clearly better than the Prime, a $499 32gb quad core that *might* have some antenna issues (mine as well as my friends have no wifi issues at all).

Enjoy throwing your money away for better GPS. It’ll really help with all the camping that I’m sure you do.

I’m feeling a bit warmer over the Samsung 7.7 tab at the moment. A well made device in a smaller format has  advantages for me.

Perhaps, in their eagerness to get a jump on the market, ASUS just aren’t doing enough testing.

If ASUS is really considering keeping all requests for the Prime up, and not pre-orders cancelled, they should find a fast smart solution where they can change the whole back panel with a new plastic or partially plastic one and postpone current shipments for about two weeks. Also, they should offer exchange service or a smart solution for current user with issues. I think if they can get something like a plastic sticker on the aluminium spots inside the prime at the back of the panel then that would probably boost the signal by 40-55% and help much.