Asus's Padfone Infinity: 5" 1080p Phone Turns Into 10" Tablet
1080p 4G LTE smartphone can become 10.1-inch tablet with a 1080p display.
Following the commercial success of the Padfone 2, Asus has announced the Padfone Infinity, a smartphone and tablet hybrid.
Asus' Padfone Infinity is a device that offers a 5-inch (441 pixels per inch) 1080p 4G LTE smartphone that can become a 10.1-inch tablet with a 1080p display. It's powered by a quad-core 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor and 2 GB of RAM, as well as an Adreno 320 GPU.
Also featured is a 13-megapixel rear camera with a Sony BSI sensor and wide f/2.0 aperture for enhanced low-light performance, accompanied by a front-facing 2-megapixel snapper. The phone itself measures 8.9 mm at its thickest, down to 6.3 mm at its thinnest. In addition to a non-removable 2,400 mAh battery, the hybrid's operating system is Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.
The Padfone Infinity Station, meanwhile, houses a 1,920 x 1,200 pixel resolution and a 5,000 mAh battery. Powered by the 5-inch smartphone that docks in it, the station does not feature a standalone processor. It has a front-facing 1-megapixel camera, is 10.7 mm thick and weighs 530 grams.
The Padfone Infinity will be available in 32 GB and 64 GB variants with a nano-SIM card slot. It'll retail for $1,200 and will initially launch in the United Kingdom, although an exact time frame wasn't revealed. Global launch details will be revealed closer to the UK release.
Their previous transformer devices had great hardware but severely crippled by slow tegra chips.
I'm a bit disapointed with my Tegra 3. I'm not so much of a tablet gamer, as a movie buff. The Tegra 3 is terrible when it comes to playing hi-definition movies (mkv, avi, etc) and can't seem to handle even some 720p mkv files. I hope Nvidia puts enough power in the Tegra 4 to play full 1080p mkvs'.
I wish it was just the player or the codec. I have MX Player, Rock Player, Dice, etc but they all have the same problem with stuttering frames, and lag.
Agreed. That level of pricing would be expected if this was some iMutation, but this is priced around 400-500 too high.
I guess the difference would be a unified place for all of your files, and whether you'd have data plans for each device.
But I agree, that price is pretty absurd. Can't imagine if the phone handset sold by itself that it would be $600. So you're essentially paying another $600 for a screen with an additional battery. Yikes...
Phone > Tablet check
table+ keyboard> laptop Check
High power laptop> desktop check
Whats the point of all these different form factors when each is weaker then the last.
Do you have a smartphone and use it? If so, then you've answered your own question.
I personally have no problem playing any of my files up to 1080p on my N7 using BSPlayer.
Convenience.
A high power laptop is a lot easier to move around than a conventional PC.
A tablet is a lot more convenient to carry around than a laptop when you do not need the laptop's physical keyboard (worst case, use a BT keyboard on the tablet), processing power or storage.
A smartphone is more convenient than a tablet when you do not need the larger screen and you almost always have it with you regardless of whatever else you usually travel with anyway.
Nothing to say about watches, ubiquitous smartphones have made them history for many people. The only watch I wear is a heart-rate monitor type and I only wear it during long (10+ km) bicycle rides.
I have the Asus Infinity and running 1080p movies is just as smooth as my PC. Of course I have mine's rooted and clocked to my likings. I haven't experience any lags or freezes as of yet.
My TF2 runs hd video just fine. You must have too many background apps/services running, or need to install a clean OS. Cyanogen is great this time of the year
Pricing on this is a bit ridiculous though. You could buy a surface rt, add bluestacks and have a mid tier winmo and android phone for the price of this, and I thought the Surface was overpriced....
Hahaha! a five year old boy and his older sister just prove you wrong.
which is why this Asus's Padfone Infinityis not for me.