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Asus PadFone X Mini is a Smartphone and a Tablet, but not a Phablet

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Earlier this year we discussed the Asus Chromebook and how it was possibly bringing the old PC back and today we’ve got more Asus news. Asus has launched the Asus PadFone X Mini, which is both a smartphone and a tablet, but it’s not a phablet.

How’s that, you may be thinking? Well, it’s a smartphone that slides into a docking station with a screen and becomes a tablet. That’s quite an innovative idea, isn’t it? Let’s take a look at the new Asus PadFone X Mini!

Asus PadFone X Mini

Asus and AT&T have announced that the Asus PadFone X Mini is going to be available in the U.S. starting with October 24 for the price of $199.99 with no contract on the GoPhone prepaid plans of AT&T. The Asus PadFone X Mini is an entry-level smartphone that comes with a docking station that transforms it into a tablet. The docking station has a display that allows this transformation to happen.

Asus PadFone X Mini

The Asus PadFone X Mini is not too shabby when it comes to technical specifications: it features 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of internal memory, a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor and a 4.5-inch display that has a resolution of 853×480 pixels. Granted, this is not the best smartphone on the market, nor does it want to be. The Asus PadFone is happy to be average in the tech specs domain, just because it’s not average at all as a device.

Its docking station that makes the Asus PadFone X Mini a cool tablet, features a 7’’ display that has a resolution of 1280×800 pixels with its own 2,200mAh battery. For the first time, a docking station improves the tech specs of a device.

The Asus PadFone X Mini also has a 5MP back camera and a 2MP front-facing camera with its own 2,060mAh battery.

Are you interesting in getting the Asus PadFone X Mini? Drop us a line in the comment section below and tell us about it.

HTC Revealed HTC Desire 820, Mid-Range Smartphone

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HTC has just revealed its new mid-range smartphone, the HTC Desire 820. In today’s article, we’re going to take a quick look at it and tell you if it’s worth buying. Following the poor sales of HTC One M8 we hope the HTC Desire 820 performs better, for HTC’s sake and the consumers’.

HTC Desire 820 Tech Specs

HTC Revealed HTC Desire 820

The mid-range HTC Desire 820 is an impressive device which looks great; we took a look at the tech specs and we must say that we’re also pretty impressed with them. While there’s no official pricing for the phone, we’re guessing that it will fall into the budget phone category and for a budget phone, the HTC Desire 820 sure has a lot to offer.

The HTC Desire 820 has a Snapdragon 615 processor which is an octa-core processor: four of the cores have 1.0 GHz and for the light tasks and the rest of the four cores are clocked at 1.5 GHz offer a bit more of a bite to the smartphone. It has 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage. A microSD card can be inserted into the HTC Desire 820 to expand its memory up to 128 GB.

It has a 5.5-inch display of a 1280×720 resolution, an 8MP front facing camera that’s capable of recording in 1080p. The back camera is a 13MP BSI camera with a pretty impressive 28mm lens. The battery is quite powerful and HTC is saying that it will offer you 22 hours of talk time over 3G.

The HTC Desire 820 is running Android 4.4.4 operating system and it comes in five colors: white, pink, black, red and light blue. We think this smartphone is a truly great smartphone worth buying!

What are your thoughts on the HTC Desire 820? Will you purchase one? Are you interested in it? Share your comments with us in the section below.