Asus PadFone finally brought on the market by the Taiwanese manufacturer. The powerful smartphone is sold together with a tablet dock which together with the phone can be used as a data center then and there.
Design, Processing & Display of Asus PadFone
Is the Asus PadFone a smartphone or rather a tablet computer? Pressed it into the smartphone category, inevitably the tablet aspect is neglected. An assessment of the device as a tablet, you will meet him no more, then eventually would be construction-related disadvantages such as thickness and weight considered too negative. Therefore, we have opted for a two-part solution: There is a rating as a smartphone and a tablet computer - together in one test.
A top-smartphone will cost about $600 or more, a corresponding tablet again the same price. This corresponds to times just two months' rent, while a tablet is really still only an additional toy - nice and convenient to serve under certain circumstances, but not powerful enough to qualify as a Asus laptop replacement. Asus is therefore pursuing with the Padfone a different way.
The idea is simple: Take a powerful smartphone and designing with a matching dock with extra battery and a large display, in which you can plug the phone. The computational power supplies continue to be the smartphone, but the presentation is as usual from other tablets to 10.1-inch diagonal display. And all together will cost only $700 instead of $1000. Ingenious? In any case, but of course there are also a few restrictions. For example in thickness and weight of the tablet.
As the sole Smartphone the device in terms of its features simply too average. The front is dominated by the large 4.3-inch display, and lack of hardware buttons, and because of the stylish metal frame that runs around the enclosure, the unit looks classy and high quality. The metal keys lying on the right and upper side of the smartphone from the frame to emphasize further the good impression.
The back of the model trumps in comparison to the simple front well with a certain extravagance, but the positive first impression on closer examination not withstanding. The battery cover is made of a single large light brown plastic part.
The Asus PadFone tablet is heavier and thicker than Android Tablets with the same display size. This can be seen at the first touch of the device.
The design, there is - except for the chubby overall impression - even little to criticize, only the narrow Fake speakers work on the shorter sides of the display a bit cheap when one realizes that the real mono speaker is located on the back.
The smartphone’s display measures 4.3 inches it’s a super-AMOLED type and protected from the scratch by Gorilla glass. The resolution is 960x540 pixels, because the competition is already offering a lot more points and more, the Asus device in the upper midfield. For through the use of a matrix Pentile the display on closer inspection, the typical grid point and the font fray easily. In everyday life, however, are more noticeable for the typical AMOLED displays excellent black levels and rich color saturation.
Meanwhile the tablet’s screen measures 10.1-inch and also protected by Gorilla glass, which will also be crowned with an hCLR film against fingerprints - with limited success. The resolution of 1280x800 pixels makes clear once again that the Padfone pointing and not the top end of the technology scale, but feels comfortable in the upper middle. The new iPad or the Infinity Pad from Asus makes the fact remains significantly sharper, but the WXGA resolution of Asus PadFone Tablets is fully in order. The same goes for brightness, viewing angle and the surface reflection.
Asus PadFone‘s Multimedia
The Asus PadFone is equipped with an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash. Video recorded by the phone with 1920x1080 pixels, however, the front camera is only a meager 640x480 pixels. Even in tablet dock, the full functionality of the camera will, as appropriate cutouts for the dock lens and flash has. It also has its own front camera that is 1280x800 pixels with much higher resolution.
The Asus PadFone competing 1,080 competitors such as Samsung Galaxy S3, and certainly can’t keeps up with the Nokia 808 Pure View. The focus is a little too bad, and the sound would be much clearer and more voluminous. After all, there is little tearing when panning, but there are many distortions (rolling shutter effect). The front cameras are marked by grain size on the front lens of the smartphone also negative due to the low resolution with too little focus.
The Asus PadFone offers enough space with 16 gigabytes (which almost 13 gigabytes available) and 32 gigabytes via microSD card should be fine for a while. And with the next update will include support for memory cards up to 64 gigabytes. Asus also offers 3 years 32 GB Asus Webstorage (cloud storage).
The supplied headset sounds too thin and insubstantial. Even with the Android equalizer can be as difficult to get full bass, a replacement of the headphones is inevitable, at least in the longer term.
Asus PadFone’s Hardware and Performance
The Asus PadFone only comes with a dual-core processor from Qualcomm. "Only" is misleading, however, because the MSM8260A presents itself despite only two cores significantly faster than the quad-core chip from Nvidia Tegra 3. This is partly due to the advanced design of the S4 Snapdragon with only 28 nanometers and significantly stronger graphics unit Andreno 225. While Tegra-3 models as 4 or 5 heartfelt images per second strong sweat, rewinds the Qualcomm chip of the Padfone still almost liquid at 20 frames - faster in this category is also currently, the mighty quad-core Exynos of Samsung, which is in the superior Galaxy S3.
This perception is confirmed to some extent in benchmarks such as Vellamo. There is in the Padfone tablet dock and in accordance with a display resolution of 720p with about 2375 points ahead of the S3 with 2,100 points - impressive. In contrast, the Antutu in 6640 to 12 040 points - which appears only partially understandable, because in addition to the double score for the pure CPU performance (2 instead of 4 cores), the S3 also cut off the memory twice as good. In everyday life, you realize it but nothing that both chips are roughly at eye level.
This assumes, however, that the performance is made of the Asus Padfone settings to "normal." In balanced mode, the Asus device is only slightly ahead of the S3, the energy saving mode close behind. A share of the overall good performance also has the Android version 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich, which supports, among other things with the system-wide graphics accelerator processor. With Android Jelly Bean could be increased even further once, even if it is already operating cash guaranteed.
The speed is already great; it must create Asus elsewhere again manually. For a technique called Dynamic Display Switch (dynamic screen switching) to apps on smartphones and tablets represent different and so the use of much larger screen of the Tablet Dock better. This also works with third-party apps that need to integrate this, only a little extra code into their programs. All are pre-installed on the Padfone apps already support this feature anyway, but in fact, the Google apps like Mail, Maps, or Play Store not yet affected them. Although all the apps were hooked into the "Dynamic Display Switch", the Asus PadFone refused so stubbornly in the applications mentioned, the change in the smartphone switch to tablet mode. Instead, we received the error message "The application does not support dynamic display and will be closed." This happened for various apps like Gmail. According to Asus, however, lies in the Google Apps and is already working with the company on a solution.
Phone Function & Battery
Call quality is good on both sides of the line. The situation is different when talking about the Tablet Dock or the stylus.
The battery is allowing usage for an average term of approximately one week.
Conclusion on Asus PadFone Review
During the performance there is nothing to complain about the dual-core chip. The price of the clever 2-in-one solution fits well in the race.
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