Padfone is the new comer launched by Asus, a company best known for designing laptops but with an improved know-how in inventing new gadgets and devices. In terms of that, well, the results are quite debatable.
Asus introduced to the Americans the idea of PadFone X, a phone that transforms itself into a tablet. PadFone X Mini is basically their new born child, which looks and feels quite ordinary. PadFone X Mini is the second release of the PadFone series, as we also have the Max model, which is sharper and bigger.
The main benefit of this toy is its price. For $200, you have a mini cellphone that turns itself into a tablet. The phone alone is nice to hold and its relatively small size makes it very manageable.
The downside lays in its weight, compared to the iPhone 6 for instance, it’s huge. Adding the entire weight of the device to the phone, makes it even more uncomfortable. The 4.5 IPS screen features an 854 x 480 pixel resolution and looks a bit fuzzy.
The tablet’s piece of photographic cake comes with a better resolution though, of 1280 x 800 pixels.
The making of a phone and turning it into a tablet isn’t as easy and nice as Asus would like us to believe. All the power is packed into the phone portion and to use the tablet, you simply slide the phone into the dock. The dynamic display of Asus is supposed to transition whatever you had on the phone screen, to the tablet. Unfortunately, the majority of apps don’t support the feature, so they simply crash when you add the tablet part to the cellphone. Although most of the built-in apps work with dynamic display, you will notice a delay of 3 to 5 seconds every time you dock the tablet.
In terms of specks, the PadFone X Mini is powered by a 1.6 Ghz Intel Atom Z2560 dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM. Also, Asus packed 8 GB of storage into the smaller PadFone but it comes with a MicroSD card slot so you can expand the storage up to 64 GB.
PadFone X Mini spots a 5 megapixel back photo device and a 2 megapixel front-facing camera.
The idea of a cellphone turning into a tablet is quite entertaining and if it comes packed in a decent price, it can become quite marvelous. But the idea is not everything, as its execution offer the value we’re looking for. PadFone X Mini has some more work to do as it only comes with an undoubtable price benefit.
Speaking of which, check out our list of affordable cellphones. Xiaomi is the Apple of China that delivers great quality for a very small price. See what we have here because the list of benefits is great and the prices are smiling back at you.
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