BARCELONA -- Asus has announced the PadFone Infinity, a 5-inch smartphone that turns into a tablet when you plug it into its 10.1-inch dock.
The smartphone-tablet transforming concept is quite unique to Asus. The company launched two such products before: the original PadFone and the PadFone 2, which launched in October 2012.
With the PadFone Infinity, Asus upgrades the specs of both the tablet and the smartphone component to new heights. The smartphone sports a 5-inch screen with a 1,920 x 1,080 pixel resolution (that's 441ppi), a 1.7GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and a 13-megapixel camera.
The Android 4.2 device also supports LTE connectivity, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, A-GPS and NFC.
Plug the PadFone into the tablet dock, and you've got yourself a 10.1-inch tablet with the same specs, which, beefed up as they are, sound more than capable of going head-to-head against standalone tablets.
The PadFone Infinity, together with the Infinity Station, will cost around £799 ($1,209) in the UK. Exact date of availability has not been revealed at this point.
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