ASUS PadFone Hands On: Tablet, Smartphone and Netbook in One Discussion

[Jamison Cush]

No one can accuse ASUS of being boring. Since exploding onto the tablet scene at CES 2011, the Taiwanese tablet maker first turned heads with its Transformer and its detachable keyboard dock, which then was one of the first Android tablets to receive Android Ice Cream Sandwich. ASUS also released the first quad-core Android tablet in the Transformer Prime. Now, ASUS is combining a smartphone with a tablet with a netbook, and coupling it with a capacitive stylus that doubles as a phone receiver, and calling it the ASUS PadFone.

This kitchen sink approach to devices is certainly different from the competition, which too often confuses thin design and spec boosts with innovation, but is the ASUS PadFone just too “out there?”

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