the main selling point of PadFone is the ability to use a mobile phone, connect it to a larger panel and use it like a notebook.
However, since you are sacrificing mobility when you plug it in the dock, you should have the ability to use it in more ways than just a glorified battery pack with a larger screen. If it is the similar design as the original PadFone, that is to say, with another additional battery pack together with a physical keyboard, it would make a complete set...
I would like to stress this is only my point of view, open for discussion. I am not saying those who choose PadFone 2 bought a lemon or something like that, but just offering my frank opinion on the current design of the PadFone 2.
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Firstly, I should apologize if I sounded offensive or argumentative...
Didn't -in any way- mean it in such manner, and I'm honestly interested in "your point of view" as you mention.
So, if nobody minds a friendly discussion...
I'll share a bit of my own perspective:
Given that ASUS made an engineering target of keeping the
combined weight of the padfone 2 to right underneath apple's ipad. Docking the fone might be considered less of a "sacrificing mobility"-type of action.
If the overall weight and dimension of the docked padfone, is similar to the overall weight and dimension of the average tablet in the market... then we might be able to think that there's would be a good many points on why the padfone 2 might be useful in its tablet form factor.
Of course, all this is assuming that there are many usefulness in consumers buying a tablet (eg: instead of a phone). Which is a different discussion altogether.
So, although I can understand why some people might not want any kind of 10" tablets at all... I find it hard to see why -if- anyone who likes 10" tablets would not find any merits in having a padfone 2 and its docking capability to become a 10" tablet form factor.
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Cheers.