AT&T Asus are still teasing out the details on the dfone X, an Android smartphone that docks into— provides the processing power for—a larger tablet.
The dfone X consists of a 5-inch smartphone with a 1080p display, plus a 9-inch tablet shell with a 1920-by-1200 resolution display. The phone slides into to the tablet through a rear dock connector provides all the processing power, memory storage for the larger screen. (en the phone is removed, the tablet portion becomes a paperweight.)
Other specs for the dfone X include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 16 GB of storage, 2 GB of RAM a MicroSD card slot. The phone includes a 13-megapixel rear camera a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. ile the tablet can make use of the phone’s rear camera, it only has a 1-megapixel camera up front.
There’s no word on battery life, but Asus is packing a 2,300 mAh battery into the phone, a 4,990 mAh battery into the tablet dock. The phone alone weighs 0.33 pounds, when combined with the dock, the dfone has a total weight of 1.46 pounds, making it fairly heavy for a tablet of its size.
though dfones have been on the market for years, they’ve never been available through a U.S. carrier before. Asus AT&T announced the dfone X at CES in nuary, but didn’t reveal any specifics beyond screen sizes.
AT&T hasn’t given a price or release date for the dfone X, but has said that it won’t charge a separate tablet data plan for the device. That’s perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the dfone X—but only if AT&T doesn’t make up for it with drastically inflated up-front pricing.
