ASUS PadFone Mini to debut next week

Jamie Feltham

December 5, 2013

Manufacturer ASUS is to unveil its PadFone Mini in Taiwan on December 11.

It has confirmed that the device will have a 4.3 inch screen, and a skipping listing also shows the device will have a quad-core Snapdragon processor.

Although it does not offer 4G connectivity, it does run Android 4.3, making it the first lower end handset to do so.

The original PadFone slides into a dock, and the smaller version is expected to do the same and sliding into a phablet-like device.

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