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Thu Feb 21 2013, 09:13pm

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http://www.gizbot.com/mobile/is-asus-teasing-metallic-styled-padfone-3-on-facebook-010770.html

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Nah... I don't think so...

PF2 came pretty soon after PF1, but this would be even sooner... I doubt it... I can't find any proove of this anywhere...

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I have to agree. It could be another phone but not a padfone. It's gonna be part of their infinity series

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Any credibility Gizbot may have had immediately flew out of the window with this statement - "In 2007, Apple iPhone changed the ergonomics of design. It was a smartphone crafted with bold aluminum moves."

The iPhone didn't adopt the "bold aluminium moves" until the iPhone 4, which didn't appear until mid-2010. If we're talking about use of aluminium in general, HTC's been doing it since at least 2003 and I've no doubt there've been other 'phone manufacturers using aluminium as a shell material well prior to that.

Whilst Asus may well be showing a new 'phone at MWC, I doubt very much it'll be the PadFone 3 - if they know what's good for them, they won't be releasing that until very late this year at the earliest. Not only so they can capitalise on the still-booming PadFone 2 sales, but also to give themselves a chance to iron out bugs before releasing it, for a change!

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"when Pad and Phone come together" and it does have Intel inside (according to todays teaser)...

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http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/22/asus-columbus/
for those who want to see the link or video

edit: nevermind, it's weird that I forgot that I already read when Asus gonna held the press conference

it would be cool if it's PF3 and the phone is inserted to a 7/8 inch tablet instead of 10

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It's a 4" phone in a 7" tablet in a 10" tablet XD

No I'm just kidding, I don't know... But I'm starting to get the feeling it's going to be that rumoured 7" intel based FonePad thing... But we'll know tomorrow

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Sun Feb 24 2013, 02:28pm

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Definitely no padfone3.

It will be a metal cased mobile phone, based on intel processor. Thats it.

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Sun Feb 24 2013, 10:08pm

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I've made this topic sticky, please use this topic to discuss the event before, during and after...

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Sun Feb 24 2013, 11:17pm

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It's not a 'phone at all, it's a spaceship which docks with a church!

Sorry, curiosity's gotten the better of me and I was hoping that Asus would have already "spilt the beans" by now as it's already the 25th in Taiwan, but it looks like they'll be doing their press release on the 25th in Europe (and knowing our luck it'll be some time in the afternoon), so still a few hours to go (12.5 hours actually, according to the countdown timer).

I'm beginning to think now based on the FonePad link from the article JustinTan linked to, that it'll be an extra-large "phablet," a 7-inch tablet which can also make 'phone calls. Their "when Pad and Phone come together" slogan coupled with Columbus talking into his tablet would seem to indicate this, though I don't know what they're referencing with the spaceship/church docking.

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Mon Feb 25 2013, 12:25am

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It's already february 25 in the Netherlands now

But we'll have to wait untill 1 o'clock (GMT +01)... I hope I can join...

But yes, it's probably that FonePad thing... But they have to have some surprise in stock since they're makeing a pretty big deal out of it...

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Mon Feb 25 2013, 08:02am

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Exactly. Especially considering that until now it sounds "just" like a Galaxy Note clone which already is a pretty good device which has its market/buyers.

So, Asus really needs to come up with something special about it in order to sell it.

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So, Asus really needs to come up with something special about it in order to sell it.

So far (based on the limited leaked info), the "specialness" seems to be limited to (1) iPhone-ish design elements and (2) bigger screen size.

But how big is too big, especially for a 'phone? Is this the direction manufacturers are heading?

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Mon Feb 25 2013, 09:34am

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I´d say they took this direction some time ago. I mean, the average screen size of a phone has gone from around 3" to 4.7" in about 3 years. Which is very unfortunate imo.

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