Wednesday, April 24, 2013

ASUS blurs the phone-tablet line by launching Fonepad in India

Can’t decide if you want to spend your money on a phone or a tablet? The ASUS Fonepad makes the point moot, because it’s both. 

The company has launched the 7 -inch Android tablet in India today and the Fonepad can also make phone calls over a cellular network. ASUS unveiled the Fonepad internationally at MWC 2013 in February and has now announced the availability in India for Rs. 15,999. 

The tablet features a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel IPS display, a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom Z2420 processor, 1GB of RAM, and up to 16GB of storage. It has a 1.2MP front-facing camera and a 3MP rear camera, built-in GPS and Glonass support, and up to 10 hours of battery life. The Fonepad supports WiFi and HSPA+.

Apparently, this isn’t the only category-blurring device Asus has. The company’s Padfone, the Transformer convertibles and the Taichi 31 takes a different approach toward the same segment, the ‘HYBRIDs’. These let you dock, un-dock, convert a smartphone into a tablet, a tablet into a phone, smart to use, a larger screen and to get a much longer and unrivaled battery life.

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