BARCELONA, Spain--Asus isn't absolutely the aboriginal aggregation that springs to apperception if you anticipate of tablets, but accepting complete Google's ablaze Nexus 7 device, it's accepted that it can crank out a agitating slate.
Now the aggregation is applying abounding of the aforementioned tricks to a new tablet. Dubbed the FonePad (yeesh), this new accessory follows in the footsteps of Asus' advancing PadFone mobile, and borrows abundant from the Nexus 7. It has the adeptness to accomplish calls, though, and is powered by an Intel Atom processor.
Screen and design
The FonePad has a 7-inch display, which packs in 1,280x800 pixels, authoritative this the aforementioned admeasurement and resolution as the Nexus 7. It lacks a rear camera, but finds amplitude for a 1.2-megapixel front-facing snapper, which should appear in accessible for video calling.
The FonePad is fabricated from metal, but thankfully isn't too abundant at 340g. It's slim, too, barometer 10.4mm on its shallowest side. Asus is assured you'll be able to anchor this book calmly with one hand, and absolutely during my hands-on time I begin that the FonePad acquainted actual ablaze and portable, abundant like the Nexus 7.
The FonePad's metal architecture does feel classy, and my impressions afterwards a abrupt aeon of use were that body superior seemed high. The artificial architecture of the Nexus 7 is one of the few things I didn't like about Google's tablet, so this is a audible additional in my mind.
Apart from the metal casing, though, already you get your mitts on this book there's actual little to analyze it from the Google-branded Nexus 7, and the FonePad is actual agnate in admeasurement and design. The acceptable account is that if you've acclimated a Nexus 7, you'll be added than able to handle Asus' newest tablet. It does leave me apprehensive whether this accessory is altered enough, however.
Intel inside
Humming abroad on the central is one of Intel's Atom Z2420 processors, clocked at 1.2GHz and backed up by 1GB of RAM. The Nexus 7 offers accomplished achievement application Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 chip, so it'll be absorbing to see whether the FonePad can outdistance it. Graphics meanwhile appear address of a PowerVR GX540 GPU.
As for storage, you get 16GB of space, but appropriately you can bang that up by slotting in a microSD card, with up to 32GB cards supported. That should be affluence of space, unless you're a decidedly adamant hoarder of photos and video, and gives the FonePad an bend over the Nexus 7, which is beggared of abundant storage. Asus says you'll get 9 hours of array activity from this bunched gadget.
Look antic on a call
The FonePad comes complete with all the all-important accouterments to accomplish buzz calls, provided you don't apperception captivation a 7-inch book up to your face and alluring baffled looks from passersby. It's able with a noise-canceling microphone, too.
In theory, congenital buzz ability agency you could pay for just one SIM-card and atom your smartphone completely, about nabbing yourself a smartphone and book in one, for a atom of the bulk it would amount to buy both. In convenance I can't see abounding shoppers demography to the idea, but if you'd appropriately use a book as your capital phone, let me apperceive in the comments.
The FonePad is active on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which isn't absolutely the latest version, but still gets you all the key appearance of Android like admission to the Google Play store, and several home screens to backpack abounding of widgets and apps.
Asus has taken the time to add some of its own applications, including Floating App, which helps administer your multitasking apps, and SuperNote Lite, which is for authoritative handwritten addendum and doodling. You'll aswell get the bemused adventure of alteration Microsoft Office abstracts on the go application Asus' WebStorage Office Online, and 5GB of billow accumulator on the inventively called Asus WebStorage.
Because it's not active "vanilla" Android like the Nexus 7, if you buy the FonePad you'll apparently accept to delay a lot best for updates, because Asus will acceptable yield its time authoritative abiding all its apps play nice with any new Android software. If you're a committed Android fan who thirsts for bleeding-edge software, the FonePad apparently isn't for you.
Price and absolution date
The FonePad will be landing in the U.K. amid April and June, acceptable against the end of June and costing ВЈ179, or 219 euros in the blow of the continent. That's a tad added big-ticket than the Nexus 7, so it'll charge to affect in agreement of achievement and array life.
It'll ability Asia-Pacific about the aforementioned time for $249. Unfortunately there's no chat on a absolution in the U.S., but Asus does accept a addiction of bringing its accessories stateside. Fingers crossed, folks.
Stay acquainted for the abounding review, and let me apperceive in the comments whether you'd buy this tablet.
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