List of Smartphones and Tablets Launched For the Week Ending September 23

Asus PadFone

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2012, the Asus PadFone was released in India only this week for a whopping price of Rs 64,999.

The PadFone sports a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED capacitive multi-touch display with 960 x 540 pixel resolution. Running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS, the PadFone houses a 1.5 GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB RAM, 8MP rear camera with autofocus and LED flash, 1.3MP front camera and a micro SD card slot for expandable memory support up to 32GB.

Further, the handset is loaded with a 1,520 mAh Li-ion battery delivering 63 hours of battery life with the PadFone station and 102 hours with the keyboard dock.

The PadFone comes in three configurations – 16GB, 32GB and 64GB respectively.

The unique and feature of the PadFone is that it has a tablet dock dubbed as PadFone Station, which has a 2MP rear camera and 6,600 mAh Li-ion battery to charge the device while it is docked.