Waiting for the Asus PadFone X to launch on AT&T was rather disappointing. Both companies kept promising the launch, and it took longer than most people were willing to wait. As a result, even though we found this product to be “decent” in our ...
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Not long ago we had the opportunity to share our experiences with a unique device: the Asus PadFone X. If you haven’t checked out our full review, make sure you find out why we call it “a beginner’s flagship with a tablet in the box“. Just like most of our reviews, we get our hands on the device, we run it through its paces, we write up our thoughts, and move on to the next device.This one was “different” ...
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I have always fancied ASUS as one of the more creative and ambitious Android manufacturers in the space.No, ASUS isn’t exactly one of the top smartphone or tablet manufacturers; it’s nowhere near as successful as many other brands in the mobile realm, especially here in the States. But that hasn’t stopped it from trying to push boundaries, thinking outside the box, and daring to be different.Today, ASUS isn’t exactly creating groundbreaking products. The Transformer tablets from early 2011 to mid-2012 were novel, Android-powered tablet-netbook hybrid devices that no ...
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iOS 8 is here –in Beta form, at least– and (surprise, surprise) we’ve got some opinions. For the last Weekly podcast to begin with a “0,” we bring in the big guns to discuss Apple’s new platform: a four-man team that includes our resident iOS experts, one of whom joins in from the blazing heat of a car baking in the North Carolina sun just to tell us his take on the iPhone 6 and how it will/won’t/might end up being a phablet.Of course we don’t stop with Apple: a panoply of mobile devices, from the LG G3 to the Galaxy S5 Active to the Motorola X+1, ...
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When it rains mobile devices at AT&T, it pours. At least, that’s what this new onslaught suggests — the ASUS PadFone X, Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 10.1, and Samsung Galaxy NotePRO 12.2 are all now available from purchase from the United States’s second largest wireless carrier.The Galaxy Tab 4 10.1 is a mid-range tablet, with not many impressive specs. It features a Snapdragon 400 processor, and a 10.1-inch display with a mediocre screen resolution of 1280×800. It costs $379 on a two-year data plan ...
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Back in 2012, in one of my first-ever editorials for Pocketnow, I called the first-generation ASUS PadFone an answer to a question no one was asking. I admired that it “cheated the system by changing the rules,” providing a continuous computing experience across a smartphone and a tablet, but found its hardware-based approach antiquated. In a world where more and more of our content resides in the cloud, I reasoned, what place does a dumb-terminal tablet have?Three ...
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Asus may have taken for ever to launch its first PadFone model in the United States, so much so that we’re still waiting for it. Still the device is now official, you should see it in retail stores in the next few days, but there is a sad catch with this device, and it’s that it’s an AT&T exclusive. Those of you interested in this device, which we’re currently dissecting in our Pocketnow Labs, but you don’t want to use it on AT&T, or you want it abroad, it seems that Asus has decided to cut you some slack.Both devices are pretty much the same; ...
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New York City is a fine place to sneak a peek at some unreleased devices, and that’s just what we did this week with the LG G3 event (streamed from London to an airy presentation room in a Chelsea skyscraper) and AT&T’s ASUS PadFone X announcement (held on a posh rooftop lounge near the Flatiron). At one of those events, Daniel Bader of MobileSyrup was our seat neighbor, so we thought we’d invite him on this week’s podcast to discuss the more globally significant of these high-profile launches.Join us as we share our impressions of the LG G3: how it stands on ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about AT&T’s launch of the ASUS PadFone X, after a ton of teasers. Then we talk about the Wireless Charging standard, and how it might get a smart fix soon. Motorola then gets a leaked photo of a larger flagship device that could be the Moto X+1. The Google Nexus 8 follows as reports have the tablet still being prepped for Google I/O. We end today’s show talking about Apple’s iWatch, its possible design and launch times. All this and more after the break. Stories: -
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Five months. Back at the CES in early January, ASUS announced its latest hardware, including smartphones, tablets, and even a new model for its hybrid phone/tablet PadFone lineup, the PadFone X. The manufacturer shared a few hardware details and announced that the PadFone X would be an AT&T exclusive in the States… and then silence. For months we waited for further news about the model, and eventually AT&T started releasing teasers of its own. ...
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Is AT&T messing with us? AT&T might be messing with us. Why are we feeling so paranoid? Well there’s this ASUS PadFone X we saw debut back at the CES in January, intended to be an AT&T exclusive. Like many PadFones before it, the X marries an Android smartphone with a tablet dock, allowing users to transition between device sizes in the blink of an eye. So far, so good, right? But then we waited for sales of the PadFone X to begin… and waited, and ...
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What’s worse, a device that you hear rumored for months and months but never seems ready to go official, or one that sees a formal announcement, but then never manages to actually go up for sale? It’s been over one hundred days since ASUS announced the PadFone X at CES, to be an AT&T exclusive in the US. We were told that pricing, specs, and availability info would be forthcoming, and while we have gotten an update on those hardware details, there’s been no news concerning a start of sales. Instead, ...
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Back at the CES in early January, ASUS announced the upcoming PadFone X for AT&T. Like PadFones before it, this would be a combination smartphone/tablet dock setup, this time with a five-inch phone and a nine-inch tablet, both full HD. While we got that display info, some general talk about a large battery, and confirmation of LTE-Advanced support, ASUS still hadn’t revealed a lot of detail about this hardware. A couple weeks back we saw AT&T teasing ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about how AT&T is now teasing the Asus PadFone X, and what this means for the product in the US market. We then talk about the all-new HTC One, and what to expect from its special dual cameras. Que focus later on the Snapdragon 800, and how a developer figured out how to allow an “always listening” feature, like on the Moto x. Apple vs Samsung follow as we talk about how the lawsuit is really focused on stripping Samsung from making smartphone profits. Then we end today’s show talking about iOS 8 and even iOS 9, aside ...
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