[UPDATE: Confirmed working in the Galaxy Note 2] Sandisk 64GB Micro SDXC cards confirmed WORKING in Galaxy S II, HTC Sensation, Galaxy S, ASUS Transformer & Transformer Prime, Motorola Razr, Huawei G300, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2, and Galaxy S3!

Well, the headline really says it all doesn't it. Read on anyway if you want all the nitty gritty, replete with a geeks best friend, benchmarks.

Today Fedex delivered my 64GB micro SDXC card direct from Sandisk (you have to love mail forwarding services when it comes to buying from US-only online stores). Naturally this was accompanied with the usual new-toy excitement, heightened on this occasion by knowing it would work despite Sandisk's protestations to the contrary, thanks to confirmation from two XDA users who had already received theirs (big thank you to 3waygeek and Ghost77!).

[Scroll down to the bottom for the latest update in relation to the Galaxy Note 2]

[At Your Own Risk] Rooting the ASUS Transformer on stock ICS

Over the weekend my ASUS Eee Pad Transformer received an update to the much anticipated Ice Cream Sandwich. In order to upgrade I needed to remove CWM. The OTA updates are only successful if you’ve got stock recovery. I had added CWM so that I could apply root. Now I had to do without CWM, and with it root.

You can use Voodoo OTA RootKeeper to temporarily remove root, and then after the upgrade you can restore root. This worked for me as I went from Honeycomb 3.0 to 3.1, but not when going to ICS. Though many others it worked even on ICS. I’ve decided the problem is gender related.

So here I am with my nice sparkly ICS running perfectly on the pad but I’m sulking because I can’t get root. And without root I can’t use Titanium Backup, Root Explorer and AdFree. All are staple apps for me.

Join me over the break to see how to to fix this.

Lenovo IdeaTab S2: ASUS Transformer form factor, 20 hour battery life

Sexy!

CES 2012 is on right now in the US of A, and the first piece of news that has caught my eye is the announcement of Lenovo's IdeaTab S2. As The Verge describes it, the IdeaTab is "a 10.1-inch, dual-core Android 4.0 tablet with keyboard dock attachment." While Lenovo is a relative unknown here in New Zealand, this caught my eye - Read on for the breakdown.

Shadowgun with a PS3 controller - Transformer and Galaxy S II video demo [+ bonus guide on how to set up the PS3 controller to work in bluetooth mode with Shadowgun!]

So here we are again, with another gaming video (I told you any excuse would do). Although I've just done one of these illustrating using a PS3 controller with a Galaxy S II, I thought showing off Shadowgun control with a PS3 controller deserved its own video too.

Now if you want to use the PS3 controller with the Transformer it's very straightforward; plug it in and map some buttons within Shadowgun itself and you're good to go. If however you want to use the PS3 controller in bluetooth mode, that's another story. Disappointingly only directional keys will work that way by default, and it won't allow you to map the rest.

Fortunately jbuggydroid, resident genius at Androidcentral, showed some dedication to the cause - exhaustively going through all the possible button mappings in Sixaxis Controller to find out which ones worked. Make the jump to get the instructions for how to make it so.

[At your own risk] How to get ICS bar buttons on the ASUS eee Pad Transformer

Pre-requisites:

• Rooted device
• CWM recovery
• External storage (Micro SD card)

More and more ICS "stuff" is becoming available, and today I found the guys (and girls) at XDA had found a way to get ICS bar buttons on the ASUS eee Pad Transformer. Reportedly for every 3.x iteration of Honeycomb.

The following image might be what you have right now, depending on whether you've reverted to the Xoom buttons or have a different ROM:

So what's involved you ask? Follow along for the instructions, it's fairly easy and painless.

The ASUS Transformer 2 - the first Quad-core Android Tablet [early details and video teaser]

... and the ASUS Transformer - the first Android tablet to get ICS!

Second time round it looks as if ASUS is bringing the sexy to the
Transformer tablet, should make good bed fellows with the
unparalleled functionality the form factor affords

Some great news today for Android tablet lovers, ASUS Chairman Johnny Shih today spilled the beans on the date for the official announcement of the Transformer 2.

The ASUS Transformer - Android's best tablet [and why the Transformer 2 will be my next tablet too]

The unassuming ASUS Transformer, immediately
recognisable for looking nothing like an iPad

Sometimes posts just change on you. You strike out with a clear purpose, and then part way through realise your unalloyed vision has been muddied with irrelevant diversion. Those diversions are usually just a self-reproaching highlight-delete away from oblivion, but sometimes your finger pauses over the delete key, and you wonder if you've just typed something that deserves expressing. In all honesty I'm not really sure whether this post belongs to the former category or the latter, but I'm feeling self-indulgent, and this is my blog.

I started out writing a straightfoward post about the Transformer news today, and then this sentence emerged from my fingertips: "I don't know if I've mentioned it before here on the blog, but the ASUS Transformer is my Android tablet of choice". Fast forward a few minutes and I had expended a few hundred words on what was meant to be an aside about why I like the Transformer above all others in the current generation of Android tablets. Since the Transformer has been largely unlauded by the rest of the blogging world, who have tended instead to be entranced by the undeniable aesthetics of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, I thought why not post my retort on behalf of the Transformer?

If  my esoteric musings on the writing process haven't already left you cold, let me make a case for the Transformer as the top of the Android tablet pile over the break (and if you're eyes have already glazed over, head onto my next post instead to catch up with the great news today in relation to the Transformer, and the Transformer 2).