It's been a long ride for the PadFone. ASUS' last smartphone was the Android 2.1-powered from two years ago, then five months later the company its smartphone partnership with Garmin (though they're friends). The next thing we knew, the outfit was openly Windows Phone, but obviously nothing came to fruition despite its engineering units floating about in the wild. Meanwhile, a bunch of started entering the market to get a slice of that hot tablet pie.

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Download Game Superbike 2001 Full Version here. Alien 303 Vst Keygen Idm. Eventually, the PadFone shocked the industry at last year's Computex (remember our brilliant based on the teaser pics?), but ASUS went on to miss its Christmas launch, allowing it extra time to rejig the phone's software and design. Then and went by, with the latter hosting the official launch event to unveil the PadFone's final design and availability date. This time, the new April target was missed by only three weeks, and shortly afterwards we got hold of our retail unit from Taiwan, which is still the only place where you can get hold of the product. But enough with the story. What we want to know is whether ASUS' courageous and unique project has all the right ingredients to squeeze itself into a market now dominated by the likes of Apple, Samsung and HTC. Most importantly, will the company set a new trend with this two- or three-in-one form factor -- in the same way it did with netbooks -- thus taking the Android ecosystem to the next level?

Hardware ASUS has delivered a pleasant surprise with the PadFone's weight. If you've been following this product closely, you should know by now that the full PadFone package -- assembled in Pegatron's Shanghai plant -- comes in three main parts: the phone, the PadFone Station pad and the PadFone Station keyboard dock. Let's focus on the phone first: in Taiwan, you can buy this HSPA+ (WCDMA 900/2100) handset on its own -- for NT$17,990 (about US$610, or US$580 before tax) without contract. You get a 4.3-inch, 960 x 540 Samsung Super AMOLED display (with Gorilla Glass plus a hard coat, low reflection film), a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 SoC (MSM8260A at 1.5GHz), 1GB LPDDR2 RAM, an 8-megapixel AF camera with LED flash, a VGA front-facing camera and a removable 3.7V 1,520mAh battery.