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    Asus Padfone: To Be Launched This Month

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    The Asus Padfone has been making waves ever since it was unveiled at Computex in May 2011.

    What we saw then was a high-powered smartphone that could be slotted into the rear of a tablet shell, instantly offering the best of both worlds.

    But although the device has been spotted at various trade events in the nine months since, Asus is yet to officially launch it.

    That's going to happen at Mobile World Congress at the end of this month, when we'll find out all the features and specifications of the device. For now, here's what we know so far about the Asus Padfone.

    It's a phone...and a tablet
    Put together a tablet and a smartphone and what do you get? If you're working in Asus' research and development department, the answer is a Padfone. The Padfone itself is an Android-powered smartphone, but it comes complete with a Padstation tablet dock.

    Asus has said the Padfone will be the component that houses most of the working guts, such as the processor, RAM and internet connectivity. The Padstation is little more than a 10.1-inch screen and a battery. Slot the Padfone into its home on the back of the Padstation and its display is automatically resized to fit the larger screen.
    It will be twice as powerful as the iPhone/iPad
    Both the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S run on dual-core processors. The Padfone will have a quad-core processor inside, which should make it fast and stable when running multiple applications and also powerful enough to run console-quality games. The exact chip has not been specified. Asus' new Transformer products use Nvidia's Tegra 3 chip, but The Verge reported that the model on show at last month's Consumer Electronics Show was running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4.
    A hybrid device combo.

    Does this not sound much like RIM's Blackberry + Playbook strategy?

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    Re: Asus Padfone: To Be Launched This Month

    Seems you are slightly missing the point if you think it's similar to the playbook + blackberry combo RIM tried to pitch.

    The 'Pad' part is simply a screen dockfor the phone adding the larger touch screen and extra I/O ports. It negates having two 'seperate' devices and I think it will fit in nicely along-side the Transformer and Slide in their Android tablet range.
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    Re: Asus Padfone: To Be Launched This Month

    Quote Originally Posted by Bunjiweb View Post
    Seems you are slightly missing the point if you think it's similar to the playbook + blackberry combo RIM tried to pitch.

    The 'Pad' part is simply a screen dockfor the phone adding the larger touch screen and extra I/O ports. It negates having two 'seperate' devices and I think it will fit in nicely along-side the Transformer and Slide in their Android tablet range.
    I'm all for choice.

    Especially if we purchase wifi only versions of such devices.

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