ASUS Transformer Prime: Unboxing, hardware tour, brief UI demo

Hi everyone and welcome to 2012!

Obviously at this juncture I'm more or less obliged to make the same clichéd promises you're seeing every where else about being back bigger and better than ever in 2012, so take that as read.

Now that we've dispensed with those formalities, here is our first piece for the new year - another cliché - the ubiquitous unboxing video. This time around the block we're breaking open the ASUS Transformer Prime, Android's latest hot new tablet (arguably Android's first hot tablet, if we're being honest).

Rest assured we'll have much more content pushing out to you over the next few days, and hopefully bring you something a little less formulaic to pique your interest. For now though, whet your appetite with like the fifteenth unboxing you've watched in the last week or so:

Motorola Razr: Unboxing video - first impressions, size comparison to the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note

Quick heads up that the first of our Motorola Razr coverage is out on YouTube now for your viewing pleasure. Of course it's the obligatory unboxing video, replete with a size comparison to some of the other mobile hotness living at my place right now.

Naturally lots more content will be following, so keep it locked here to catch our incoming and indepth "real-user" review, this time coming courtesy of editor extraordinaire Onslaught86. Make sure to give him a follow in Twitter @onslaught86 if you just have to have his up-to-the-minute impressions and experiences with the device. I've been posting to my Twitter account (@NZtechfreak) with some insights of my own from the brief play I'm having with the device before shipping it off to Nik.

Samsung Galaxy Note: Unboxing video

I still need some time to get a better feeling for the hardware of the Galaxy Note before really getting into the nitty-gritty of the Galaxy Nexus review proper, but I know lots of you are champing at the bit for more information, so in order to whet your appetite (if a video demo and guide for how to Root the Galaxy Note wasn't enough already) here is my unboxing video with a size comparison to the Galaxy S II:

I don't spend a lot of time dwelling on the 'hardware tour' in this video - don't expect to see in a lot of my other unboxings either. There are already dozens of videos like that on YouTube, so get your search on if you aren't already familiar with the banal aspects of things like port-placements etc.