Asus go for broke to take the world
Today Asus announced the Transformer Book V, which is a tablet/phone/laptop hybrid device. Along with the all-in-one combination of these physical devices, it even includes the ability to dual-boot between Windows and Android on the tablet and laptop portions of the device.
Here’s what the Transformer Book V consists of:
- A 12.5-inch tablet screen dock
- Combining the phone with the tablet dock makes it a tablet
- Combining the phone & tablet with the keyboard dock transforms it into a laptop
- While in tablet or laptop mode it can switch between Windows and Android (although the phone is Android only)
- The phone section contains an Intel Moorefield chip
- The keyboard dock section contains an Intel Core CPU
- 2GB of RAM in the phone/tablet
- 4GB of RAM on Laptop
- The phone and tablet use 64GB of storage and the laptop has 128GB of storage
The only other specs/hardware revealed was the following:
- 1 x DisplayPort 1.2 (4K at 60Hz)
- 1 x Mini DisplayPort 1.2 (4K at 60Hz)
- 1 x HDMI 2.0 (4K at 60Hz) / MHL 3.0 (4K at 30Hz)
- 1 x HDMI 1.4 (4K at 30Hz)
- 4 x USB 3.0 ports
Also today Asus launched new and updated hardware devices. On top of the big announcement earlier of the Transformer Book V, Asus also unveiled the Fonepad 8 and a new MeMo Pad 7 & 8. Here are the details,
MeMo Pad 7 –
- 7-inch Display
- 64-bit Android device – Intels quad-core Atom Z3745 chipset (clocked up to 1.86GHz)
- 5 megapixel rear camera
- 2 megapixel front camera – also includes a high definition resolution 1280 x 800
MeMo Pad 8 –
- 8-Inch Display – “Full HD resolution
- Intel Atom Z3580 quad-core chipset clocked up to 2.3GHz
- Billed as the worlds lightest 8-inch Android tablet at just 299 grams
- Also only 7.45mm thin
- 802.11ac WiFi and an LTE modem
Fonepad 8 –
Really a phablet/giant phone
- 8-inch display with 1280 x 800 resolution
- Intels 64-bit Atom Z3560 quad-core processor at 1.8GHz
- Dual front-facing speakers
- Android-based ZenUI is on-board with a new flat design and over 1,000″ software improvements
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