As it was already scheduled, ASUS CEO Jerry Chen revealed today the company’s ambitious phone+tablet combo the Padfone 2. A tablet with a smartphone, or a smartphone docked in a tablet!- this exactly how you can explain the Padfone 2 that is capable of providing you both a phone as well as tablet experience. The ultra slim gadget has a premium feel as well as sensational design.
This high-end elegant tech toy from Asus has powerful specs to show off. While the tablet shell has a 10.1″ (1280×800) display, a 5000mAh battery, as well as a 1MP front camera, the phone sports a 4.7″ HD incredibly IPS+ display, 2 GB RAM, a quad-core Snapdragon S4 pro processor, LTE, 2140 mAh battery, 13 MP rear camera, as well as 1.3MP front camera. The latter will be offered in 16, 32, as well as 64 GB internal storage variants. The Padfone 2 is suggested to be launched in choose European as well as Oriental countries by the end of December this year.
Press Release:
Live Life Intuitively with ASUS PadFone™ 2
Quad-core smartphone with extraordinary battery life as well as a thinner, lighter PadFone 2 station provide the utmost mobile flexibility.
ASUS, a worldwide leader in the new digital era, today announces PadFone™ 2. building upon the successful PadFone combination of an Android smartphone as well as dockable tablet for extraordinary mobile flexibility, PadFone 2 consists of a higher specification quad-core, LTE-equipped smartphone as well as a totally redesigned tablet.
ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih revealed PadFone 2 in front of the world’s media at a press seminar in Milan, Italy. “Our ruthless drive to innovate with our ‘Design Thinking’ approach has empowered us to produce PadFone 2. It’s beautiful, it’s quick and, finest of all, it’s intuitive,” stated Mr. Shih.
PadFone 2 is a completely featured 4.7” Android™ smartphone with industry-leading specs that docks with the special PadFone 2 station to ended up being a lightweight, however completely featured, 10.1” tablet. apps are effortlessly optimized on-the-fly to support both tablet as well as phone modes, with an immediate shift between smartphone as well as tablet screen sizes.
Enlarge as well as charge
ASUS’ world-renowned ‘Design Thinking’ approach has substantially minimized PadFone 2 Station’s thickness as well as weight. At just 649g, the integrated weight of both PadFone 2 as well as PadFone 2 station is now lighter than a lot of tablets on the market, as well as the dock system has been redesigned to need just one swift step to use. PadFone 2 has likewise been subtly fine-tuned to boost its screen size to 4.7”, while minimizing its thickness as well as weight to just 9mm at its thickest point as well as 135g, respectively.
Battery life is astounding, too. The higher-capacity PadFone 2 2140mAh battery supplies as much as 16 hours 3G talk-time as well as 13 hours Wi-Fi web browsing, while PadFone 2 Station’s 5000mAh battery provides as much as 36 hours 3G talk-time. PadFone 2 Station’s interior battery likewise has sufficient capability to recharge the docked PadFone 2 three times over.
Super phone, incredibly performance
A 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM makes sure extraordinary PadFone 2 performance in both smartphone as well as tablet modes. The new 4.7” 1280 x 720 HD incredibly IPS+ screen utilizes scratch-resistant Corning® in shape Glass as well as delivers sharp, in-depth pictures with precise colors, ultra-wide checking out angles as well as 550 nits brightness for sensational outside visibility.
A new 13-megapixel high-performance cam captures exceptionally in-depth pictures without any shutter lag. burst mode can catch as much as 100 shots at a blisteringly quick six shots per second, while concurrently recording 1080p HD video at 30fps, or 720p HD video at 60fps. Low-light performance is likewise improved by the large f/2.4 aperture as well as a devoted picture signal processor. Both PadFone 2 as well as PadFone 2 station function superlative noise high quality too, thanks to ASUS SonicMaster innovation as well as audio tuning by Waves, recipient of a technical GRAMMY Award®.
Easy to share, simple to save
With capabilities as much as 64GB as well as 50GB of ASUS WebStorage supplied complimentary for two years, PadFone 2 uses limitless possibilities for storing data. data syncing between gadgets is likewise a thing of the past, considering that PadFone 2 storage is utilized by PadFone 2 station when the two are connected, while NFC enables individuals to share webpages, Contacts as well as individual suggestions from Play store with others. shared mobile data connectivity between smartphone as well as tablet likewise indicates just one data plan is needed for both devices, while support for as much as 42Mbit/s DC-HSPA+ as well as 100Mbit/s LTE delivers super-fast web browsing as well as downloads.
User-friendly enhancements
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