Asus Padfones

[techtechie]

At the CES2014 Asus announced new Padfones, which got me thinking back to 2012 when the first one was released. Why weren't they marketed more in the US. It seems the new ones will come on the AT&T network but i never could figure out why the previous versions weren't a big seller. It seems a very nice concept that im very interested but it seems the only ones that a person could buy is on ebay from Taiwan. So................ lets discuss.......

 

[Kelvinz]

Because Asus doesn't have enough money to market their products. They are tiny compared to Apple, Samsung, LG, etc.

 

[techtechie]

but there doing great in the laptop and tablet market. not to mention video cards. im sure their rep should carry over, right?

 

[gorcorps]

but there doing great in the laptop and tablet market. not to mention video cards. im sure their rep should carry over, right?

Doing great according to who? They've had some decent products, but they're far from being recognizable in the general populace. They also have gotten into a nasty habit of announcing products that never come out in the notebook and tablet world. I waited a long time for an Asus Transformerbook that never saw production.

 

[Ravynmagi]

I think ASUS laptops and hybrids are pretty nice. ASUS has surpassed Toshiba in PC shipments for 5th place. And there are at least 3 different models of Transformer Books available for purchase.

As for Padfones. Not sure why they haven't been available. It was a new product and maybe ASUS just wanted to test it out in some regions first.

 

[techtechie]

I would buy ASUS over just about any product. maybe a lenovo at a general laptop. tablet i would take microsoft over asus maybe thats because i like that OS. and can definitely say i am a future owner of a padfone. I really like that platform.

 

[ponyo]

I would buy ASUS over just about any product. maybe a lenovo at a general laptop. tablet i would take microsoft over asus maybe thats because i like that OS. and can definitely say i am a future owner of a padfone. I really like that platform.

After owning Nexus 7 (2012 & 2013) and reading about slow memory problem of the Transformer line, my view of Asus quality has dropped significantly. I used to view them as higher quality PC tech company. Now I view them as company with poor quality control who cut corners.

 

[Joe1987]

After owning Nexus 7 (2012 & 2013) and reading about slow memory problem of the Transformer line, my view of Asus quality has dropped significantly. I used to view them as higher quality PC tech company. Now I view them as company with poor quality control who cut corners.

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[techtechie]

ok lets talk motherboards. sabertooth, doubt that it could get any better.....

 

[Ravynmagi]

After the quality woes of the Nexus 7 2012 and a series of Transformer tablets that were almost great except for one big screwed up feature (like poor IO performance, bad wifi/BT), I was starting to doubt ASUS as well.

But for me the Nexus 7 2013 helped redeem them a lot. Build quality is so freaking much better, the display is calibrated this time and looks amazing, and even the speakers have improved quite a bit. The 2013 Nexus 7 is a pretty nice piece of hardware. Now if they can only make a high end tablet that matches the quality of this cheap 7 inch tablet, haha.

 

[techtechie]

for me a tablet decision would be greatly based on whether it has a usb port or not. for me desiding would go down like this
1. usb (if not usb at least OTG)
2., GPU
3. CPU
4. screen size
5. screen type
6. hdmi out (not a big thing but it definitely would come in handy)