Asus has just announced the latest version of its previously awkward Padfone—but this time round, it seems that the hardware might live up to previous promises.
https://gizmodo.com/the-new-padfone-lets-it-all-hang-out-5952089
The new device—which allows you to dock a smartphone into a bigger screen to create a tablet, just like the older versions—certainly delivers on specs.
The phone offers a 5-inch 1080p screen (that’s 441 pixels per inch), a quad-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon 600 chip with an Adreno 320 GPU, 2GB of RAM and either 32GB or 64GB of built-in storage. In terms of connectivity, you can expect EDGE, GPRS, GSM, WCDMA, LTE and DC-HSPA+, as well as the usual WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, and NFC.
The phone packs a 13-megapixel shooter, plus a front-facing 2MP camera. A 2,400mAh battery should keep it ticking along through 19 hours of 3G talk time. To round things off, it’s finally running an up-to-date operating system, in the shape of Android 4.2
Then there’s the tablet dock. It’s got a 10.1-inch screen with resolution of 1,920 x 1,200—up from 1,280 x 800 in the last version—and has enough battery capacity to more than double the run-time of the phone.
The device won’t initially be available in the US, but elsewhere it’ll cost the equivalent of $1,200. We’ll go hands-on soon, so check back to see what we think of it up-close.
