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ASUS Padfone Releases Christmas, Has Google Excited

Asus Padfone will release on Christmas and Google is excited, and not just because the Padfone will feature Ice Cream Sandwich, the next iteration of Android that can power both smartphones and tablets.

The Asus Padfone, announced on Monday, May 30 at Computex in Taipei, is a combo device with a 4.3-in smartphone that docks into a 10.1-in tablet shell.

At the Padfone launch, Asus VP and GM for the Personal Mobile Devices Business Unit, Benson Lin told Pocket-lint in an interview, "We are working very closely with Google and they are excited by the PadFone,"

According to Pocket-lint, Google's excitement over Padfone's launch has another dimension, besides Ice Cream Sandwich.

The concept of a smartphone tablet combo was first demonstrated by Israeli company Modu. The company went broke earlier this year and Google acquired its patents. It is likely Asus is using some of those patents for its Padfone device.

The Padfone lets you treat pad and phone as one device and seamlessly switch between the two for an experience that best-fits your activities. You can switch screen sizes, transitioning running applications between pad and phone.

Padfone eliminates data transfer hassles with single storage pool in the smartphone. It uses a single SIM card letting both devices share the 3G network connection.

In addition, you can use the pad as an extended battery to charge your phone.

For anyone using both a smartphone and a tablet, Padfone makes perfect sense.

Pitching the advantages of a combo device, Lin said, "Some of the major reasons behind the PadFone is that Asus has found that many consumers are unhappy with the fact that if they own a tablet and a Smartphone, they end up having to subscribe to a data plan to for each of the devices for 3G access which can be quite costly."

Asus is ready to launch the Padfone, but is waiting on Ice Cream Sandwich. Currently, Google has different versions of Android for tablets (3.0 Honeycomb) and smartphones (2.3 Gingerbread) to cater to differing screen sizes. A single OS that handles both sizes is critical to the success of a Padfone like combo device.

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