Asus Padfone 2 Review

Asus Padfone 2 is a great device launched in October 2012, featuring a high-tech Quad-Core CPU speeding at 1.5 gigahertz, a medium 4.7-inches multi-touch display, and two cameras, a 13 MP back camera and a 1.2 megapixels front-facing camera. Let's take a better view of what this cellphone can give us.

Asus ships this phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 system chip, which holds an extremely fast 1.5 gigahertz Quad-Core CPU with a great 2 GB of RAM memory. Graphic intensive apps generally consume a lot of CPU cycles, so this device has an extra Adreno 320 graphics processing unit clocking at 400 megahertz to help the CPU with those tasks. A good aspect of this phone is its quite large 16 GB internal memory and while it doesn't count with an SD memory slot, it is enough to install a couple hundred games and applications, but it might not be enough if you are fan of the heaviest games currently available or taking tons of photos and videos.

This phone is sold in two different colors, black and white. The Asus Padfone 2 is a compact cellphone, taking into account that it packs a 4.7 inches screen and it is just 5.43" long and 2.71" wide. The Asus Padfone 2 is just 0.35" thick, taking it to the thinnest cellphone's category. Asus has made a great job making this phone as lightweight as 4.76 ounces.

This device features two cameras, a 13 megapixels back camera and a 1.2 megapixels front facing camera. It also films Full HD 1920x1080 videos at 30 fps, and slow-motion videos in 1280x720 (HD) at 60 fps (2 times slower than normal videos). In addition, this cellphone's camera also includes a few interesting features like auto-focus, flash, fast burst mode and geo tagging.

This cellphone includes an absolutely amazing 1280 x 720 (HD) 4.7-inches display, which makes all images and videos look brightful and colorful. Its display uses Super IPS+ LCD capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

The Asus Padfone 2 provides WiFi connection (which it can provide to other devices as a mobile hotspot), 4G LTE high speed connection type and the fastest 3G internet connection, over HSPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The Asus Padfone 2 works with a Micro SIM card for GSM networks.

This phone also comes with a few interesting features as NFC (to trigger actions, transfer data or make payments by holding your phone close to another NFC device or tag), Bluetooth (allows communication with other phones, computers and accessories) and GPS Localization, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

The Asus Padfone 2 counts with a 2140 mAh high capacity Li-Ion battery, which isn't very much for a cellphone like this.

This device is being sold for around $ 149, which is not a very good offer for comparing with other similar phones. No matter if you want it to take plenty of pictures, need this phone for work, are looking for a social phone or will use it for gaming, this cellphone is definitely the correct option .