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Asus phone-tablet pair set for 2012 launch

Quad-core, of course

Asus' tablet-docking smartphone, the Padfone, will make its debut at Mobile World Congress 2012 and sport an Nvidia Tegra 3 processor.

The company's anticipated tablet-uniter will touch down early next year, says netbook journalist Nicole Scott, who claimed to have good authority when she made the announcement during an Engadget Mobile Podcast.

Asus Padfone

The Padfone is basically a 4.3in smartphone which clips into a 10.1in tablet, gaining boosted battery life, and sharing data and 3G internet access over a single Sim, not unlike the Motorola Atrix and its Laptop Dock.

With its quad-core Tegra 3 chip, the handset joins its big brother tablet, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, in next-gen speed land, when both are launched in Blighty early next year.

We look forward to learning more about the Padfone at MWC, which takes place in Barcelona between 27 February and 1 March 2012. ®

Worst. Name. Evar.

See title.

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OS?

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New SL 101 owner here...

Article caught my eye since I'm less than one week into ownership of an SL 101... Another innovative design, but there are too many problems great and small, and I am dangling right now between struggling onward or returning it to the store. My main direct contact with ASUS has been via their website, and the kindest comment I can think of is "I was not impressed."

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Anonymous Coward

Not quite...

It could have been called the Asus PhoneIsATabletButtplug.

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...You might be onto something there...

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