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Asus brings Padfone in april

Asus has a smartphone-tablet combination Padfone officially to the world. In addition, the manufacturer indicated that consumers have the device in april can buy. The Padfone was some time ago already displayed.

The most remarkable feature of the Padfone is that the phone in a tabletbehuizing can be inserted. This changes the smartphone in to a tablet with a screen diagonal of 10″ and the battery life increased fivefold, according to Asus, that his announcement at the Mobile World Congress did. In addition, there will be a keyboard dock will be sold for the tabletbehuizing, such as that for the Transformer tablets. This allows the Padfone also if laptop be used. The Padfone supports operation with a stylus. This accessory could also act as a bluetooth headset, but it is unclear how that looks.

The software is based on Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Asus probably has the necessary adjustments are made for the smartphone-tablet combination working. The Padfone was on earlier trade fairs have already shown, but it was clear that the software is still very unstable.

About the prices of the smartphone and its accessories was still nothing released. It is known that the Padfone in april, and shipped to stores, but whether or not the device is then also immediately available in the Netherlands is was not said.

The smartphone features a Qualcomm S4 soc, which on the new 28nm process is fried, and for which details had previously emerged. The soc features two Krait cores, each with a clock speed of 1.5 GHz. The screen has a diagonal of 4.3″ with a resolution of 960×540 pixels. There is an 8-megapixel camera built in and the memory is up to 64GB. Furthermore, there is support for bluetooth 4.0, hdmi, gps and umts with hspa up to a speed of 42Mbps.

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