Asus Padfone, Transformer Pad TF300T SA details emerge
Asus South Africa announced that it plans to launch its Transformer Pad TF300T tablet PC in South Africa during May 2012 and that the Asus Padfone is being tested by “the different service providers”.
As with its predecessors, the Transformer Pad can be docked into a base with a keyboard and trackpad, turning the tablet PC into a netbook-like device.
The docks of the Asus Transformer Android tablet range also add additional battery life, USB ports, and an SD card reader.
It runs on the latest version of Google’s Android mobile operating system, Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”, has a 1.2GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 T30L quad-core processor, an 8 megapixel camera, 1GB RAM, and 16GB or 32GB of storage.
Asus did not provide pricing information at the time of writing, but based on international prices the Transformer Pad is meant to be a cheaper tablet option to the device maker’s more premium Transformer Prime and upcoming Transformer Prime Infinity.
Asus Transformer Pad TF300T
Padfone update
Details on whether the Asus Padfone will be coming to SA are scant. The device is notable in that it is a phone that becomes a tablet PC that becomes a netbook.
Asus SA explained that they are fully dependent on the say of the different service providers that are testing whether the Padfone would work in South Africa.
Asked whether this meant that Asus was trying to get the Padfone ranged by cellular operators, the company just said that they have no new information and that they “don’t have plans to launch the Padfone at this moment in time.”
Asus Padfone
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