"Phone-Tablet" Asus Padfone 2 Rp 8.2 Million Sale

Asus Padfone 2

First introduced in October 2012, two akhirmya Padfone officially entered the Indonesian market.

Gadget smartphone-tablet combination of these can be obtained at its debut on Saturday (03/23/2013) and Sunday (24/03/2013) in its debut at the upcoming Grand Indonesia mall.

With a selling price of Rp 8.199 million for the version with 32GB of storage and $ 9.199 million for the version with 64GB storage, Product and Marketing Manager Asus Indonesia Juliana Cen admitted it does not target the large volume of sales for the Padfone 2.

"We are more inclined to take it for branding, show that not only reliably make Asus notebook, but also smartphones and tablets," said Juliana launch event in Jakarta, Thursday (03/21/2013).

Asus Padfone 2

 2 itself true Padfone is a smartphone that comes with a docking unit in the form of screen "tablet" 10-inch (1280x800). The unit can be used independently smartphone like other smart phones.

Units tablet, meanwhile, can be lit when the smartphone unit put in a special compartment on the back side. All processing is done by the unit is equipped smartphone quad-core Snapdragon S4, 2GB RAM, 13 megapixel camera and 4.7-inch display (1280x720).

Aims of the tablet market

Along with the shifting industry trends towards mobile devices, Juliana says that Asus will focus efforts to increase its share in the tablet market in 2013.

"Last year (2012), our share is still below 5 percent, this year we were able to achieve 20 percent target," said Juliana.

He said, in terms of sales volume, the products are so reliable Asus in the tablet segment is Nexus 7 and Memo Pad tablet cheap which cost Rp 1.7 million.

"Even if Nexus 7 only has WiFi, but the stock quickly depleted even while still in the pre-order," Juliana said, adding that the 3G version of the popular tablet in collaboration with Google will be available in Indonesia in early April.

Juliana promise, it will release more products tablets and smartphones in Indonesia this year. "For now I can not say anything, waiting for the game."