Last October, Asus presented the Asus Padfone S in Malaysia for $275 (about RM 1,000). And tomorrow, April 8^th, the company will introduce the Asus Padfone S Plus, an upgraded version from Padfone S. Some details from Padfone S are left untouched, namely the screen, the SoC, the battery, etc, some are not.

You must have heard about the Asus Padfone line but you may not know how special it is. An Asus Padfone device can be both a phone and a tablet. The phone looks and works like a normal one but when you attach it to a dock station, it turns into a tablet. This dock station is just a bigger screen for the phone. It can’t work on its own.

The company takes the Padfone S as a model for the Padfone S Plus and then elevate some detail. What remain unchanged in the latter are a 5-inch 1080p (1080×1920) display, a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 CPU along with Adreno 330 GPU, a 13MP rear camera, and a 2300mAh battery.

The company does upgrade the RAM and internal memory on the device. Compared to 2GB RAM on the Padfone S, 3GB RAM on the Padfone S Plus increases by 50%. Moreover, we see a huge rise in the native memory as it is now 64GB of capacity, 4 times larger than in the previous version (16GB). There’s also a slot for up-to-64GB microSD card.

The Asus Padone S Plus will be available in Malaysia on April 8^th for just $302 (RM 1099). The dock station that turns the phone into a tablet is actually an optional accessory. So the price $302 is for the phone only.

So what do think about the newest Asus Padfone?