Intuitively Made Tablet and SmartPhone - ASUS PadFone 2

I have to admit, carrying several gadgets in a bag does have it's downsides as it takes up quite a bit of real estate. I bet you have seen those people who rely on their gadgets quite a lot and you'll get to see them carrying not just one but two or more different devices. I myself am quite guilty of that as I often find myself carrying my HTC One X for my business calls, Samsung Galaxy Note as a notebook, and my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 for my gaming needs and go to unit when I need to make a quick conference call via skype or viber as it has a larger battery between the two. With that said I guess ASUS had people like me in mind when they created their latest gadget innovation called the PadFone 2.

The name itself may not sound as appealing to some and even the marketing campaigns seem a bit too vague with pictures of the unit is showing a 4.7 inch Smartphone on what looks like a speaker dock. I personally thought it was a speaker attachment that they were selling with the phone. But when I got to see for myself what it really was I realized why they named it such. The ASUS PadFone 2 is quite literally a Smartphone that can fit quite well with its 10.1 tablet partner. That's why it's called a PadFone. The original PadFone which ASUS made but didn't get to fully launch properly had a similar concept but wasn't well received. With the PadFone 2, they redesigned and re-conceptualized how a tablet would be unified with a partnered smartphone without sacrificing on how it looks and enable to enhance performance and functionality for both. Now you have a phone and tablet ecosystem that both ride on Android ICS and gets synchronized with each other quite well once connected. It even carries an amazing 13MP camera that rivals even that of the HTC One X and the iPhone 5. Given the fact that it provides a solution for the problem of having to carry two separate devices such as that which I had in the past, this is quite an interesting take on providing a solution. 

The phone section – processing part of the hybrid – is set to come with a large 4.7-inch 720p HD screen. It boasts a set of high end internal components like a quad core Qualcomm CPU, 2GB of RAM and a heavy 13MP rear camera. This phone part will be available separately in market. It is to come in three memory versions 16GB, 32GB and 64GB.

Check out the Source of this Pic at Padfone.net for more details about PadFone 2.

The rear camera can take video at 30fps 1080p video or 100 continuous still images at full resolution. The device has a 1.2MP front camera, which is good enough for Skype calls. For connectivity, Padfone 2 has LTE and it features NFC functionality and a 2,140mAh fixed battery. Asus has showed up a model of the device with 900/2100MHz WCDMA and 800/1800/2600MHz LTE frequencies at the Taipei event. 

 

Will this be something that could actually rival the other flagship phones and even tablets that are now currently in the market? That is still up for open debate, but ASUS is definitely banking on the success of their Nexus Tablet line and ASUS Transfomer editions. Will I be buying one myself, I would probably say not anytime soon as I am still quite happy with carrying around my devices, I just have to buy a bigger bag I guess :) 

Till Next Time...

-Metz-