Asus is introducing its next-generation Padfone, and as you might expect, the new Padfone Infinity has a faster processor and higher resolution display than earlier members of the Padfone family. It’s a 5 inch phone with a 1080p display and a 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. Oh yeah, you can also…
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Asus may have been the first company to introduce a smartphone that turns into a tablet when you dock the handset into a docking station with a larger touchscreen display. But the Asus PadFone isn’t the only game in town… which is good news if you find the $760-ish price tag off-putting. A few years ago a rival phone/tablet hybird…
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The Asus PadFone is an Android phone that turns into a tablet when you add an optional tablet dock, a laptop with an optional keyboard dock, and a desktop PC with an upcoming optional monitor dock. Asus started selling the PadFone in Taiwan in April, but it’s not officially available in the US yet… unless you’re willing to buy the…
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The Asus PadFone is basically just an Android smartphone with a 4.3 inch display and 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. But what sets the PadFone apart is the way you can add a series of optional docking stations to transform the phone into a tablet or a laptop. But it looks like Asus has another dock up its…
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The Asus PadFone is an Android smartphone with a 4.3 inch display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor, and a whole slew of optional accessories — including a tablet dock that converts the phone into a 10 inch tablet, and a keyboard dock that transforms it into an Android laptop. You can’t find the PadFone in the US yet, but…
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Asus has unveiled the Italian prices and launch details for three upcoming Android tablets. Unfortunately we still don’t have details about the US launches for the Asus Padfone, Transformer Pad TF300T, or Transformer Prime Infinity. Asus Padfone The Padfone is the most unusual device of the bunch. It’s a 4.3 inch Android smartphone that slides into a 10.1 inch tablet…
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Asus has been showing off its PadFone concept for nearly a year, and now the company is finally ready to start taking orders. The PadFone is an Android smartphone with a 4.3 inch display that you can slide into a 10 inch tablet dock when you want a larger screen and longer battery life. Asus will start selling the PadFone…
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The Asus PadFone is an Android smartphone that you can slide into a tablet-sized docking station when you want to use a 10 inch display and louder speakers. But that doesn’t mean you’re stuck looking at apps designed for a 4 inch screen on the larger display. Instead, the PadFone uses something Asus called Dynamic Display to prompt apps to…
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The Asus PadFone is a 4.3 inch smartphone which you can use on its own — or as the brains of a 10 inch tablet when you want a larger screen and extra battery life. The idea is that you don’t have to keep data on your phone and tablet synchronized when your phone is your tablet. Asus has been showing…
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The Asus Padfone isn’t expected to ship until February, but it looks like someone at Asus may have been testing an early unit. Some benchmark results have shown up at the GLBenchmark website. The Padfone is a smartphone-tablet hybrid. It includes a fully functional Android smartphone, along with a tablet docking station. Just slap the phone into the docking station…
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The Asus Padfone is modular device that combines an Android smartphone with a 4.3 inch display and a tablet shell with a 10 inch screen. The phone actually acts as the brains of the tablet — but the tablet dock allows you to use a larger display than you would get with the phone alone. That leads to a better…
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Asus has been showing off a device called the Padfone since May. Now chairman Jonney Shih says it’s on track to launch in early 2012 and it will come with Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software. The Padfone is a device that combines the features of a smartphone and a tablet in the most literal possible way. At first…
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The Asus Padfone is an unusual device that combines an Android smartphone and tablet. I don’t just mean it combines features of each. The Padfone consists of a smartphone with a 4.3 inch touchscreen display which you can slide into a tablet-sized dock for times when you want to use a 10 inch display. All of the data and processing…
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