Gadgetory

inside this pretty big exciting box is the ax sous padfone infinity and I know that padfone remains the most mockable name on earth but they've actually made some inroads with this thing and the padfone infinity is the newest version of their convertible phone plus tablet let's get it up mm all right infinity there's pretty impressive specs and it's pretty expensive but maybe it'll you know prove worthy look two separate boxes for one Transformer style device oh how exciting it's like a double unboxing here's the infinity station which is the tablet part finiti station oh my gosh where to begin how about the phone the phone is their guts of the whole thing and it is well look at this it's kind of an interesting size cuz it's a pretty big phone but it's not very wide it's not quite as phablet e as I expected it to be to be honest though ah instead of a sous they've actually gotten with padfone branding here but look at that nice brushed aluminum back that's kind of hot inside this box we have this sort of expected charging brick USB micro USB which I love for charging and some headphones anything else headphone changes and that is all let's see what's inside our infinity station box you the hook I did it run it out of room here okay so here's the docking station really a lot of plastic in this packaging can I just take another minute and say that so not quite this day in brushed aluminum but you can see there's the space here to dock it and then other than that is a very very iPad looking tablet that I finger printed up pretty much immediately not very oleophobic screen there see here yeah slides right and put you where you have a red dot hello anyone oh there we go I have to admit if you really want a tablet or you want to take it on the plane that's kind of cool all right but let's run down the specs and see if those also impress the asus padfone infinity is made up of a 5-inch LTE smartphone that becomes a 10.1 inch tablet when it's docked into the infinity station the phone part of the PadFone as a 1.7 gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor pretty impressive power their graphics are powered by an Adreno 320 GPU it also has two gigs of RAM to help out that snappy performance the phone runs Android jellybean 4.2 the phone's display is a 5-inch super IPS screen it has an impressive 1920 x 1080 resolution delivering 441 pixels-per-inch basically the screen looks good it has a rear-facing 13 megapixel camera with an LED flash a sous is talking up this camera it apparently has lagless shutter speeds and a dedicated image sensor for improving low-light photos plus it has burst mode of up to a hundred photos in a row while recording 1080p HD video have to try that up the front facing camera is no slouch either at a full 2 megapixels storage is also decent the PadFone is available in either 32 gig or 64 gig models and it comes with 50 gigs of free cloud storage for two years the phone has a 2,400 milliamp hour battery so expect decent if not awesome battery life as for the tablet the 10.1 inch display offers a pretty impressive 1920 x 1200 resolution the tablets front facing camera is a disappointing one megapixel though if you're into tablet based video chat other than that there's a micro USB 2.0 port and that's about it luckily since this is two devices in one the padfone infinity shell sports a five thousand milliamp hours battery which is sue says can deliver 40 hours of 3g talk time when the PadFone is doc but if you want to be a transformer you have to pay for it being d set costs at least nine hundred and fifty dollars ouch check out our full cnet hands on over at cnet com now the one thing that's really bumming me out about the Padfone infinity phone because I kind of want to start using it today is that it's the first non-apple phone to use nano SIM so the regular micro sim card that you're using in your AT&T or tmobile phone it's not gonna fit you're gonna have to cut it down or take it to your carrier's store and have them cut it down for you want wang so i've been playing with the Padfone infinity long enough to figure out how to change the language to english and get it all docked and i have to say i'm getting kind of a crush on it i can kind of see it I see the promise because I use my phone for everything and then I could just plug it in here and have a totally synchronized experience with at least according to a sous 64 hours of battery left now it's possible that I'm just developing a crush on how pretty it is but no of course then I just remembered how it cost a thousand dollars I'm probably out but it's neat at half the price you