Asus's Padfone Infinity: 5" 1080p Phone Turns Into 10" Tablet

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.

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darkchazz

I'm glad ASUS has switched to qualcomm SoCs.
Their previous transformer devices had great hardware but severely crippled by slow tegra chips.
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fedaykinn

I have to disagree... I have a Transformer Prime and I don't see how it is "crippled" in any way by Tegra3. I can play all the games in the market with no problems and run any application quite fast. I guess if you look only at certain benchmarks you could say something along those lines, but in "real world" use, the T prime with Tegra 3 has does everything very well. My only complay has nothing to do with the SoC, but with the range of the wifi, which is pretty short... everything else runs perfect.
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Cool, but 1200$ price is a joke. You can get a high end phone and a tablet for that, and you'll end up with two devices usable at the same time.
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icemunk

fedaykinnI have to disagree... I have a Transformer Prime and I don't see how it is "crippled" in any way by Tegra3. I can play all the games in the market with no problems and run any application quite fast. I guess if you look only at certain benchmarks you could say something along those lines, but in "real world" use, the T prime with Tegra 3 has does everything very well. My only complay has nothing to do with the SoC, but with the range of the wifi, which is pretty short... everything else runs perfect.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'.
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fedaykinn

In my experience it has less to do with the SoC than with the player you are using... I have a few movies in 1080p (of course, the prime doesn't reach 1080p so they are resized) and they play fine. I did notice however that the default Android player does not work too well.
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killerclick

Fail concept, you can't use the phone and tablet at the same time.
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icemunk

fedaykinnIn my experience it has less to do with the SoC than with the player you are using... I have a few movies in 1080p (of course, the prime doesn't reach 1080p so they are resized) and they play fine. I did notice however that the default Android player does not work too well.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.
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bustapr

i dont know if i missed it somewhere in the article, but I see no mention of how a 5" phone turns into a 10" tablet -_-
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fedaykinn

Icemunk, Strange, I have no had those issues. I use Mobo, so might be that. I don't know, seems strange that the SoC could render games but not play 1080p. In any case, I don't doubt your issue of course, just say that I have not had any problems myself with Tegra3 and has been more than enough for all my uses. More power is always nice, but I don't see Tegra 3 as a failed SoC. Tegra 4 looks promising, but the great thing is that there are SO MANY promising chips these days, we are in the golden age of processors right now.
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Non-Euclidean

KompostCool, but 1200$ price is a joke. You can get a high end phone and a tablet for that, and you'll end up with two devices usable at the same time.
Agreed. That level of pricing would be expected if this was some iMutation, but this is priced around 400-500 too high.

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