Asus, a Taiwanese multinational computer hardware and electronics company has launched its most-hyped Padfone in India on Tuesday for ₹ 64,999.
“Today’s introduction of PadFone will be an utmost expansion of our users’ world where they will enjoy, achieve and save categorically. It is an alluring proof to substantiate our prime focus on the mastery of technological innovation and design perfection. We are assertive that PadFone will touch customers’ heart in terms of incredible product, incredible design, incredible quality and incredible service,” said Alex Huang, Managing Director, System Business Group, Asus India I a press release.
The Padfone, a 3-in-one device comprises the features of a smartphone and a tablet. It is said that the Smartphone can be docked into 10.1 Android ICS tablet with up to 63 hours of talk time when it is connected to the PadFone Station and in a similar fashion the device also can be turned to a notebook/netbook which can give the computing experience with extended battery life up to 104 hours.
“Asus is characterized by the courage to innovate. We combine this intention with state of the art technology in the constant pursuit of providing an incredible user experience. The Asus Transformer Pad distinguishes itself from other products in this segment in terms of its versatility. Our new offerings are intelligently fusing technologies to meet the demands of our existing and prospective customers,” said Huang.
The Padfone, first appeared at Computex 2011, runs on Google Android ICS and comes with a 4.3-inch screen. It packs Dual-core 1.5 GHz processor and 1GB LPDDR2 RAM along with an 8-megapixel digital camera with Fuji image processor.
Asus has also launched Transfomer PAD TF300TG with a 10.1-inch display. It runs on Android 4.0 and sports with quad-core Tegra 3 processor, 1GB RAM and 8MegaPixel rear camera. The device is priced ₹ 43,999 in the country.