The third is the launch of Asus Padfone, the hybrid smartphone-tablet-notebook

Day full of news for Asus, which in addition to two new tablets of the family Transformer that dribbling to the right and left of the current Prime, has also Padfone: a smartphone equipped with a docking station / tablet. The product is not exactly new, though they spoke it far back in Computex in May 2011.
During these months the device has changed shape and above all specific. The real heart of the device is the smartphone, which houses all the major hardware and QHD AMOLED 4.3 "and 960 × 560 pixels. Inside is the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (a dual core Krait) with a GPU Andreno 225, accompanied by 1GB of RAM and up to 64GB of storage into eMMC NAND.
Comes complete with a rear camera with 8 megapixels, a lithium-ion 1500mAh battery, GPS receiver and a port for microSD expandable memory, all in 129g of weight. The article continues after the break.
In the dock are a touch-screen 10.1-inch IPS panel and 1280 × 800 pixels (probably the same as the Transformer Pad Series 300), GPS antenna connectivity for increased connectivity over the cellular network and GPS, extra battery from 24.4Whr , to give the boost of autonomy required to power the display increased.
The other strong point is the keyboard (optional) Transformer-style, but also the Pennine stylus that doubles as headset is no exception. So Padfone is a real marvel of engineering that is not an end in itself and limits the waste of hardware. Why have three devices powered by SoC very similar when smartphones, tablets and netbooks we can combine?
The success or otherwise of the product will depend in large part by the operating system and at the present time Android 4 ICS may not yet be a candidate ripe for this type of modular devices. But let's not forget that Windows 8 for ARM is at the door, as well as new SoC Intel x86.