Hands On with the ASUS Padfone [Video]

February 28, 2012

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Hot on the heels of the ASUS Padfone announcement at Mobile World Congress, we now have a nice hands on video thanks to our friends at PhoneArena. While this phone and tablet accessory have been in the works for a quite a long time now, it looks like it will actually start to arrive to unsaid markets in April. One thing I am happy to see is that ASUS opted for the onscreen ICS buttons rather than the hardware buttons we have seen on earlier prototypes – it definitely makes for a cleaner look in my opinion. The Padfone combo also has an optional keyboard dock much like the Transformer series of tablets and ASUS is even including their neat ICS tablet widgets on the phone as well. Check out the video below and let us know what you think. Is the Padfone something you could dig?

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Stacy Bruce was born and raised in Spokane Washington. He attended the University of Washington to study pre-med only to change his course study a year later to forensic science. Although currently not a doctor or a scientist, some believe he posseses the knowledge of both. He was a resident of San Diego California for ten years, lived beachside and sometimes wonders why the hell he moved back to Spokane. A multi-talented man, Stacy is a fabricator, an artist, a gear head, a tech junkie and at most, the disciple of Casanova. Growing up, he was always enthralled with electronics, gadgets and gizmos. Throughout his life he has had one, if not two, of every cool and new electronic device available. He began his smartphone experience with the original iPhone. After realizing it was more like theirPhone, he decided he wanted the ability to customize, so Stacy moved to the OG Droid and has been a loyal Android fanatic ever since. Moving through all of the top tier Verizon phones, he recently retired his Droid Charge in favor of the Galaxy Nexus, only to wonder what great device Samsung will come out with next. Stacy is a busy new homeowner in where he lives with his beautiful girlfriend and two dogs.

4 comments

Moonunitenar says:

March 4, 2012 at 1:33 PM

With the keyboard dock this will be like the transformer but better! You’d have enough battery life to last you forever, and you’d have full tablet and laptop functionality. Oh, and you’d have a totally empty wallet :P

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Krzysztof Kajdasz says:

February 29, 2012 at 9:09 AM

I’d rather buy a “tablet-o-docking” station like this for my SGS2 than a fully-featured tablet if it’s sold for a decent price.
I wouldn’t use two of these devices at the same time anyway, so having a full tablet feels like a bit of redundancy to me (why pay for a second CPU/GPU, etc. while you don’t use them at once?).
I wish that some day there will be some standard for such “tablet-o-docking” at least in a range of a single manufacturer.

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Trebor Rude says:

February 28, 2012 at 4:12 PM

This is definitely something I could dig. Especially if I could hack Ubuntu-Android onto it.

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Anonymous says:

February 28, 2012 at 10:36 AM

I was skeptical at first, but they’ve come a long way. I like it.

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