Has anyone's Best Buy had the Transformer on display? I've been to two of mine and have not seen any.
I'm trying to decide between this and the Galaxy 10.1 but I can't find any Transformers to help me make my decision.
Has anyone had any luck with other retailers having these on display?
I don't know where you live but in Virginia the HH Gregg stores have them on display and functional.
I was at the Honolulu best buy yesterday and they had one on display. I had been waiting to try one in person before making a decision, and although their in store wifi was super spotty, I was very impressed. Although when I checked the settings menus, the demo TF was running 3.0.1 and the demo galaxy tab 10.1 was running 3.1.
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Has anyone's Best Buy had the Transformer on display? I've been to two of mine and have not seen any.
I'm trying to decide between this and the Galaxy 10.1 but I can't find any Transformers to help me make my decision.
Has anyone had any luck with other retailers having these on display?
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MicroCenter If u have any near u.
I was at Best Buy yesterday near Nashville, TN and asked about one. The salesman said they didn't have any and as I was leaving he caught me and found 1, (16gb) in the box. I don't know why they didn't have it on display. He did open it up, turn it on and let me look at it but would not pull the plastic off. Said they would not carry the 32 gb. I just bought one of the 32 gb at Amazon for $479.00
I'm heading over to the US in a few days, and was thinking I might use the opportunity to pick up either an Asus EEE / Samsung GT 10.1, or possibly an iPad2. Even once you add in sales tax (Mass.) and credit card exchange rates, they still look to be about ~£100 less than the equivalent in the UK.
Hopefully best buy will have some stock when I visit, but I hear that the service you get there is not too great generally?
or try COMPUSA they seem to have it in stock in S Florida
If you have frys by you they have em on display
None at best buy in york Pa. In fact every time i ask about them they point me to the acer tablet. Stupid non informed best buy employees.
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they recently restocked most best buys here in new york city. finally got my dock
i was at best buy this morning and i didnt see them on display (unless i missed it) but i know they had at least 11 in stock.--dearborn, MI
I bought mine when they were sold out. Toys r us had them somehow. Regret the purchase though as my light bleed seems to be getting worse.
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Just saw the Transformer and Galaxy Tab 10.1 at Best Buy in TN
They have the icona,transformer,tab 10.1 and hp touchpad in indianapolis best buys
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Yeah in Utah we really only have Best Buys. I'll try the other BB in our area and maybe the TRU. Thanks for the help. I wish we had more electronic stores.
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Bunch of Asus transformers at the toys r us. I got my dock there as well. and they have the asus sleeve.
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Does anyone know when Staples is getting the Iconia? I've got credit from returning my GTablet and think the Iconia is the next tablet for me.
Someone on the phandroid forum said staples is suppose to get them this week. Funny how they have the case, but not the tablet and best buy has the tablet but not the case.
I have $50 at best buy so I'm waiting for the case from them.
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Wait, staples is going to sell the iconia? I thought it is Best Buy exclusive
Staples in Sorrento Valley San Diego has a display up (dell streak and Iconia). I went at lunch looking for the folio case. Guy said they only got the tablets in but no cases. I didn't verify exactly if they were in or not because I bought mine last night.
Best Buy has an exclusive through this week and Staples will start selling them on Sunday. Most stores have stock already, but can not sell until Sunday.
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Best Buy has an exclusive through this week and Staples will start selling them on Sunday. Most stores have stock already, but can not sell until Sunday.
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Verified. Went there this morning and bought the case, it wasn't even on display yet. The tablet will be up for sale Sunday at the same price as Best Buy.
Sweet! I just checked next week's Staples Ad and it has the Acer Iconia Tab it in! Should be available Sunday as a few people have mentioned.
Just so you know target is getting it too, not just best buy and staples, thats the one i'm waiting for because i get my employee discount ^_^
Pretty good price. Choice of colors. Shipping's $5.00. You can get a SquareTrade warranty on it pretty cheap when they have their 30% off deals.
http://www.woot.com/
Already put my order in. I've been looking for an upgrade from my Nook Color, and at that price I couldn't pass it up.
I also picked one of these up. Leaving an Archos 7" for it.
i tried the ViewSonic GTab 10.1" also from Woot, and loved the perfomance. But it was more than 2x the weight of my 7" tablet and just a pig to hold, so I sold it.
Hoping that rooting and loading a lighter dev ROM will bring the Sammy up to optimization.
After missing the $250 Transformer at BB I had to grab this. Now I am jumping into a well established forum. Is there any mandatory reading for this device?
Do woot ship internationally?
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Moot point. Now sold out.
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As the Republicans say, "Well, at least I got mine!"
So I got lucky and caught them before they sold out, any "Must Have" accessories for this puppy?
Refurbished. I always hated buying refurbished electronics. I always think there's something that's going to happen with it! haha. Lets hope not. Luckily, I got mine back in June .. made a trip to the states to pick it up and got stopped at border and had to pay customs
I recently picked this up on Woot as well... was ecstatic about this purchase.
I just bought the Pyro black carbon fiber case based off what I read in the accessories section, seems pretty spectacular, esp for the price.
I am curious what people are doing to hook up to HDTVs.....
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I am curious what people are doing to hook up to HDTVs.....
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With a Teg 2 and HC, very little. You'll get acceptable 720P but kiss 1080P good-bye. Some of the cooked ROMs have AllShare (Samsung's DLNA client) if not the app's in the dev section with instructions if you're rooted. It's also included in the stock 3.2 ROMs. There's an HDMI connector Samsung sells if you want a hard-wired connection.
Man gotta tell ya... felt the tab today at Fry's and i love it, but the price right now is just too high. I know the transformer is getting a pretty big price cut when the prime comes out, so will that affect the tab also? Looking to get it for anywhere between 200-300, dont really care if refund or used.
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$325.00 shipped
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Man gotta tell ya... felt the tab today at Fry's and i love it, but the price right now is just too high. I know the transformer is getting a pretty big price cut when the prime comes out, so will that affect the tab also? Looking to get it for anywhere between 200-300, dont really care if refund or used.
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I think if there was going to be a holiday price cut it would have happened during Black Friday/Cyber Monday. I think Samsung's stance is to potentially let volume go to uphold the Tab's position as a premium device. Bottom line on pricing is if it costs them $300 to build there's no way they're going to have fire sales the way others have. The original Transformer was certainly no work of art and not really a premium device. Costs permitting Asus will drop the price and have it as an entry level device with the Prime being positioned as a premium device. My guess will be Samsung will introduce a Galaxy Tab II in Q2 2012 and retire the original Tab completely. Not unlike what they just did with the 7+ which added more featues but is still twice the price of a Kindle Fire. Their goal is to make money, not see how many Tab's they can sell.
Have you seen this price?
Best price I have seen for the 32G and also the dock.
Best Buy will also price match.
http://www.officemax.com/technology...ers-_-Tablets&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=23321870
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I picked mine up at Best Buy for $350. Blue. Amazon has the dock for $128.
Man you guys got your Tf300T's pretty cheap. I got mine at Singapore when it first came out. Costed me roughly $580 for the tablet and the dock
That is an awesome price, holy cow! I got mine from Best Buy for I think $380 for the Tablet and $110 for the dock, but that was after my employee discount. I will ask my manager tomorrow if they can price match AND apply the discount, that would be swwwweeeeet!
Thanks for posting this
Does best buy even offer price matching? I tried to talk the salesman about how it's on Amazon, newegg and other websites cheaper but he didn't seem to know anything and I just picked it up for their price. Didn't want to wait and possibly pay for shipping. I will look for deals on the keyboard dock though. That I can wait a bit on.
Price Match
Print the add (posted above) or hard copy from the paper. Go to the Best Buy help desk and tell them you just bought this and Office Max now has it for <$
If you have a Best Buy in town you must have an Office Max, even if the Office Max does not have them in the store they offer ship to store for free.
Now go and save some bucks. Also, go to Best Buy website and print their Price Match Guarantee (have it in your hands to read) they know about it. Staples will also match it.
Good luck
I'm getting mine Thursday (32gb with the dock) for £360.
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Print the add (poated above) or hard copy from the paper. Go to the Best Buy help desk and tell them you just bought this and Office Max now has it for <$
If you have a Best Buy in town you must have an Office Max, even if the Office Max does not have them in the store they offer ship to store for free.
Now go and save some bucks. Also, go to Best Buy website and print their Price Match Guarantee (have it in your hands to read) they know about it. Staples will also match it.
Good luck
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Bought 1 from bestbuy at 10am was using it and checked thread for news.
went back to bb got $53.00 refund
sweet.
Best price
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I'm getting mine Thursday (32gb with the dock) for £360.
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That equals $563.87 USA Dollars not 449.98
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I stumbled upon this deal this morning while researching tables. I was going to get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 until I read the Engadget and CNet reviews. Found out this one is much better. I was at work and called the store to have them hold one for me this I got off work. When I got there they told me that I got the last one and other customers were upset that I has one on hold.
Anyway, I go mine for $377.11 with tax and the keyboard dock for $107.74 with tax. The didn't have the keyboard dock so it is be shipped from another store. I should have it with two or three days.
Hey I just want to thank the OP for this. I printed out the ad, took it to Best Buy, and got $54.25 back. Needed the money too. Thanks
Yeah, just my two cents - I too price matched with Best Buy (my brother visiting from Ireland had bought this at Best Buy a couple of weeks ago). I ended up buying it myself from officemax and then we price matched his at best buy! They were all confused as honestly, I don't think anyone ever takes them up on their offer! But $54 is $54!! ;-)
Office Max TF300t Dock
Appears that Office Max has pulled the TF300t Dock from their web site. Sold out!
At that price I can see why. But not sure why they can't offfer a raincheck. If they did not do their research on what a good deal this was then shame on them. They knew it because of the way they presented it in their flyer. Best Buy had thousand of back orders at Christmas on the TF201 and honored them all. Even gave free docking stations based on the lack of Christmas delivery. Guys argue and hold them to it!
I got the tablet and dock at Best Buy yesterday. They matched the tablet since in stock in local stores, but would not match the keyboard. I went ahead and also got the keyboard from Best Buy hoping the keyboard would be in stock this week at OM to price match.
Then I decided to go ahead and order the keyboard from OM yesterday, since expected them to run out and not get any in store this week.
The dock shipped last night and I will take the other dock back to BB when I get it. Total price for tablet and dock was same price as the A510 and Excite.
just bought my tpad tf300t for $320 at my local best buy! It was a must but when i saw it. The device was pre owned and the box was opened but everything else wasnt touched at all. the device wasnt even turned on.
I keep looking for open box but none around me have any
There will be a tablet and dock in Kentucky tomorrow if my dock is dead and the tablet almost dead while left in sleep mode again. I have had this happen twice in a row and both times the device was restarted, no third party apps used and push notifications disabled.
Shame since got both for $450, but usless to me if the dock and tablet do not behave well together. I have not rooted, so a stock device should not be doing this.
The Excite also had a battery bleed issue while asleep, but 12%, not almost the whole thing (dock too). The A510 did not have the problem, but gets too hot during use.
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I may end up using my View as my main Android tabby and the iPad 3 for everything else. Bummer.
You think when trying to price match color model matters. Black BA white ...
Galaxy note Paranoid Android 1.7ghz goodness
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You think when trying to price match color model matters. Black BA white ...
Galaxy note Paranoid Android 1.7ghz goodness
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Haha, yes. I called best buy to see if they would price match a white online one for a blue office max one and the answer was no.
Thanks for this thread & the information. I have done my research and am ready to pull the trigger on purchasing this TF300 tablet. A couple of questions:
I have a BestBuy in a local town about 20 minutes away from me and there is an OfficeMax in that same local. Online, the OfficeMax of course says "Backordered" in this particular store when I search for it. The BestBuy shows it in stock, however I haven't called them to verify yet.
I see BestBuy also has the 16gb model at a similar price to the 32gb that is on sale at OfficeMax.
Will they try to play this off as being that one and thus not be inclined to give me the "price match" offer?
Should I ask them over the phone about the "price match" when calling to verify they actually have the 32gb in stock before making the trip OR would it be best to just show up with the Ad?
Is a salesman the person I present the ad to OR should I just walk in and go to the customer service desk with it?
Sorry for the goofy questions, just trying to have both ores in the water so I have the best chance at getting this accomplished.
Hi there
I made this thread because everybody must have their story of how did they get the tab2
Mi \ne is simple-I just finished middle school with good grades and my dad bought me a tab2 7.0
So let's hear yours guys and girls
AndDon't flame and troll please
Good idea my story as i sold my ipad1 64 3g and put a small amount of money on the price i gained from selling and bought my tab2 p-5100 from a store near us with decent price no regrets as i had my galaxy s2 before and tried android system in it and found it more open and customized than ios of my sold ipad1
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I bought a kindle fire from.best buy.
Returned it
Got an Acer a100 Iconia tab
Returned it
Got my Galaxy Tab the week it came out from the first batch at best buy here. It's good to know someone up there.
I liked the Acer. If the tab2 hadn't been there I'd still have it. Im glad I have what I have. I kinda wish it was a 10 inch. Anyone want to trade? Heh
I had some money from christmas,birthday etc and I wanted some cool android phone/tab which is not a low-end device such as my (orange monte carlo/zte skate(armv6,800mhz,512mb ram)) so i was looking for a good device for a decent price and chosen some products for e.g htc one v,xpera p or s or u,samsung galaxy ace2, but i really like the zte's "huge" screen(4,3") and my hands/fingers are also "not so small" and i didnt wanted a 3,5" or 3,8" then i decided to go with the galaxy tab 2 (p3110) and kept my zte skate(for phone calls and messaging) next day I went to a store and bought it.
bought a iconia a100 returned and bought a galaxy tab 2 7"
Traded a g2x at best buy and got 120 store credit and paid cash for the difference.
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I came home from work one day and my wife said "I bought you a surprise". There on the table was a Galaxy Tab 2 10.1:cyclops:
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I had some money from christmas,birthday etc and I wanted some cool android phone/tab which is not a low-end device such as my (orange monte carlo/zte skate(armv6,800mhz,512mb ram)) so i was looking for a good device for a decent price and chosen some products for e.g htc one v,xpera p or s or u,samsung galaxy ace2, but i really like the zte's "huge" screen(4,3") and my hands/fingers are also "not so small" and i didnt wanted a 3,5" or 3,8" then i decided to go with the galaxy tab 2 (p3110) and kept my zte skate(for phone calls and messaging) next day I went to a store and bought it.
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Exactly like me
I first wanted to replace my x8 with a newer phone(xperiaray, neo or u) but I just couldn't let my x8 go
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I sold my rooted NookColor on eBay for $165. Bought the GT27 from MacMall for $220 shipped on a 1 day special.
Happy with the purchase and the upgrade from the NookColor!
Went out to buy a nexus 7 and the store i went to didn't have any so i saw this ( my SGT2 7) and that was that
Almost had a punch up in the shop with the sales assistant and he was insisting i buy an anti-virus and a case for it. In the end i was rather rude to the guy and left in a bad mood , but once i got home and messed about with the tab i was feeling sweeeet !
Really hate shop assistants ( especially "tech experts")... they never know what the are talking about and just chat crap to get a sale lol.
Saw the Galaxy 2 7 at Best buy. Played with it, missed having a tablet, as I had given my Nook Color to my son. But then they announced Nexus 7
I saved in my birthday fund (gift for myself) for the Nexus 7, ignoring the Tab.
Then they revealed the lack of an SD card for Nexus, so I took another look at Tab.
Love it, no regrets
I'm now looking for 64 GB card, so YES i do need the slot!
I decided I was sick of carying about a bunch of different devices each doing different things and wanted to consolidate everything into one device. After researching tablets for about a week, I decided on on the GTab 2 and ordered it online. Because I live in China, the version I got was without many features available elsewhere (no access to Play for instance due to the Chinese government's disagreements with Google). I couldn't return it, but I didn't want to be stuck with a China-market tablet, so I looked into ways to 'fix' it which led me here. :good:
I was looking for tablet for about 4 weeks and actually decided to wait for the nexus 7 to be available in Germany. The other day I my brother and I were looking for some new PS3 games in an electronics market and I started to play with the tablets they had exhibited as I was concerned 7" are to small.
Long story short: I neither wanted a small 7" devices nor wanted to wait any longer. Quickly checked whether a CM10 nightly was available. Found it, went home to start the downloads and pick up my savings.
And here I am.
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Well...I went to the darkside for a while and tried the iPad2.
I got a very good prices from my local dealer so I thought I´d give it a go.
But after playing around(or at least trying to play around) with it for a few days I feelt very limited and didn´t have the options and choices I was looking for.
So I went back to the store and swaped it for my current Tab 2 10.1, and I´m absolutely loving it...freedom and usability as it was meant to be !
I got a BlackBerry Playbook for Xmas for myself,loved the hardware but slowly grew more disapointed,so i rented some living space to a friend for a month, and bought this tab 'cause its the same hardware,just open source (good place to start learning dev'ing, is my other reason)
Saw the Galaxy 2 7.0 at Best Buy played with it and waited to buy the Student Edition, got the bundle yesterday and loving so much!!:victory:
I got mine at best buy.
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Got mine free through a promotion with Telus. I signed up for their Internet and had a choice of a super crappy netbook or the Galaxy Tab 10.1... The choice was obvious!
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