Phone + tablet merge: Asus to show redesigned PadFone at MWC in February
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0, which has us wondering if Asus has bundled a especially tablet interface with it (ala Motorola’s Laptop Dock “Webtop” interface) or if Android 4. Much like the concept of the Motorola Atrix + Laptop Dock , the padphone is essentially a 10. 0 drop if docked into a larger screen. This redesigned model can also snap into Asus’s Transformer Prime keyboard dock as well, which extends functionality yet again. 0 is inclined to of scaling itself to a larger resolution if docked into something. This concept would allow Asus to manufacture the actual tablet outside for much less than a standard tablet, since it only needs a screen and battery inside it. The processor, which is rumored to be a new Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, and other components... We’ve speculated that it is adept of this feature, which would mean that your Android smartphone would instantly look like an Android 4. 3-inch Asus smartphone to jam into it. Once the phone is snapped in, it provides the processing power for the tablet, which gives it a charge in return. Asus says that it will reveal a redesigned PadFone tablet + phone combination device at Mobile World Congress Feb. Asus has confirmed with MoDaCo (via PocketNow ) that it intends to uncover a newly designed PadPhone tablet + phone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. If executed correctly, it also means that users don’t have to badger about syncing up devices because everything would be saved on their smartphone.
Source: Digitaltrends.com