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Padfone
paulbrock
14-08-2013
So after toying with the idea for ages, I finally picked up a padfone 2 from Carphone Warehouse on contract.

basically its a regular smartphone that comes with a docking station which turns it into a 10" tablet.

https://www.asus.com/Tablets_Mobile/PadFone2/

anyone else got one/like/dislike the concept?

key advantages of the concept as I see it:

- get 4g connectivity on tablet without a 2nd contract.
- get tablet+phone for the same price (give or take) as phone
- same data and apps on both, no need for syncing
- tablet bit charges up the phone when docked so its also an extra battery.

disadvantages:

- no good for being a 'family' tablet. Take out the phone and the tablet is useless
- I can see the advantage of people having two screens/devices to work with (e.g., being able to control your sky box on the Sky+ app on phone whilst still surfing on tablet). But I already have a 7" tablet for this


the padfone 2 phone is pretty decent, quad core, 2GB RAM, apparently comparable in benchmarks to the Nexus 4, though short of the htc one and s4.
The tablet is a bit more mid range, the resolution is 'only' 1280x 720 which is low for todays 10" and does seem a little less than sharp versus the same resolution on my nexus 7.

There is also the padfone infinity, which is the top end/newer version but its hard to get hold of in the UK, and almost impossible to get on contract.

Overall though v happy!
alan1302
14-08-2013
I like the idea in theory - but for me I'd want the tablet to have a higher res screen. Other than that it does seem very good and because all the data/aps are the same on both it takes a way a lot of synching issues.
swordman
14-08-2013
Never really got this to be honest either version always too expensive for what you get.

For the money they are asking you could get an s3/nexus and nook HD+ and still have change.

If the tablet part was sort of free possibly but not at this money.
paulbrock
15-08-2013
mmm....I hadn't seen the new Nook prices before purchasing, though I was looking primarily for a new phone rather than a new tablet.

In an ideal world it shouldn't make any difference whether you plug your phone into a tablet, or have two devices running on the same account, but it does feel quite a bit easier to have everything all in one place.
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