Maybe the most interesting concept unveiled at the Mobile World Congress is the Asus PadFone. Basically, it is based around a 4.3-inch Android smartphone, that can be docked into a 10.1-inch tablet. This converts the smartphone into a tablet. The tablet can be docked into keyboard, which converts the tablet into a laptop. Each dock adds a supplemental battery and storage.
How popular this concept will be depends a lot on how much the whole system would cost, but it should be a lot cheaper than buying a smartphone, tablet and laptop separately.
Combined with concepts like Ubuntu for Android or used in conjunction with Windows 8, Asus scalable hardware could be very interesting indeed.
Excellent information on the latest tablet.
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