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Asus FonePad first hitting Russia with a price tag of 265 EUR

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Thursday, March 7th, 2013 at 1:44 AM
Asus FonePad first hitting Russia with a price tag of 265 EUR

Asus’ new FonePad, which was announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will be available in Europe by the end of the second quarter. In the meantime, Russians will be among the first ones to try it out if they opt to pour out 10,590 rubles (about 265 EUR) for the unlocked, SIM-free device. That’s much more than what the Taiwanese company said the phone will cost (219 EUR) though kinda expected — for some reason most phones and tablets cost more in Russia than in other countries.

Anyway, I find the FonePad an everything but desirable device. It’s basically a 7-inch tablet with built-in cellular radio, microphone and speaker that practically makes it a phone. A big one, we might add.

It’s also under-specced, relying on Intel’s Atom processor rather than some more powerful quad-core CPU. Honestly, I’m not sure anyone with a decent salary would ever consider grabbing one of these. Except perhaps as a second device for their kid…

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  • DetroitTech

    Well actually if you don’t want 2 devices and want to merge them and go with the larger screen you only have 3 choices without having to carry a bluetooth headset. P6800, Note 8 and this… And this is about 4 hundred dollars less than the previous 2. Well the P6800 is not available but can be had on Ebay for around 5 hundred’ish.

    So with that said the fonepad is a MUCH cheaper option. Also the benchmarks on that Intel are between a dual core and quad core cpu. My Gnote 1 has a dual core and I’ve never complained of speed… IMHO. I’m gettin a fonepad ASAP.