We have just heard a piece of news that really surprises us and makes us happy. It seems that the rarity that was the Asus PadFone already has a successor. Photos leaked from the box PadFone 2 from a chinese forum. In it we can see all the technical specifications of this rare product. You may not have even heard of the first PadFone, so let us give you the background.
PadFone was a product presented in February 2012 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. we were before an Android smartphone 4,3-inch, the PadFone that is sold alongside a 10,1-inch screen or PadFone Station. When inserting the phone into the screen turned into a tablet, preserving all data and applications and most importantly using only one data rate. It was an effort similar to the project NexPhone but without taking it to a laptop. A keyboard could be connected to the PadFone Station, thus converting it into a hybrid tablet type Transformer, the Asus range. As a complement, he had a stylus to paint on the screen.
The combination tablet / smartphone It was successful in Asia, arriving this summer in the US at a price of $ 859 and in Europe for € 699. In fact, if you want you can buy it at Fnac at that price. PadFone probably went unnoticed because no phone company promoted it.
Its success has been limited also by the price perhaps and by the impossibility of buying the products separately. You can see its specifications on the Asus page. And take a look at this video.
According to the leaked photos of the box, its successor PadFone 2 would be even more powerful.
- 4,7-inch SUPER IPS + screen with resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.
- 9 mm thick and 135 grams of weight
- Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro 1,5 GHz quad-core
- GPU Adreno 320
- 2 GB of RAM
- Two cameras: front 1,2 MPX / rear 13 MPX
- Battery 2140 mAh
- WiFi connection + LTE
As you can see, it is a real madness and it improves the first PadFone a lot, which is not bad either. If the first one had Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, this one should already come with 4.1 Android Jelly Bean. At the moment, we do not know anything about the PadFone Station 2 and its features. Now it is said that the PadFone 2 will be presented in Milan and Taipei on October 16. We can not wait any longer.
Source: Engadget