Pictures among other things - part 3

Pictures

A lot of guys requested pictures of the product and from the beginning it was something I wanted to do but didn't get around to do. Now I've done as requested.



I'm not entirely sure about the quality. Originally I actually wanted to do some videos as well, but I might as well state that I don't own any professional equipment which means I can't take such quality pictures nor can I capture any video footage that is any good. I did an unboxing video with my webcam. I haven't uploaded that because the picture quality was abysmal, the lighting was horrendous and a quarter of the video was choppy/laggy especially when movement was involved. I couldn't even edit my way out of that, so I stopped that endeavour. Enough talk about that though. The pictures of the Padfone itself was taken with my Samsung Galaxy S2. It's the only camera I have on hand. It has an 8 MP camera. Pixels aren't everything, but it's of good quality for everyday use. I took most of the pictures with bright external lighting because as some of the photographers out there may know: The LED flash is nice, but it can ruin your shots. It's often way too bright when taking pictures such as those I need for this post.

Front of the phone

Front of the phone

Back of the phone

Close up of the rear camera, LED flash and speaker grill

Custom micro-USB port. The flash makes it too bright, but without flash too dark

The bare left side of the phone - no buttons or ports

Top of the phone. Headphone jack and the micro-SIM slot below it. You can see the opening for the  needle/pin 

Another shot of the left side

The right side of the phone. Power button at top and volume rocker below it

Back of the phone

A darker shot of the back. The silver logo of the PadFone looks better here

Close up of the front in its entirety

Next up is the PadFone Station. I took these with the PadFone itself as it does after all have a 13 MP camera and should have a better picture quality than my own phone

Front of the Station

Back of the Station with the phone slot centered

An angled shot with the depth of  the phone slot visible. Speaker to the right is noticeable as well as the power button up at the top

Left side with volume rocker at the top. You can see how thin the Station is despite  requiring the phone to be seated for use

Close up of the phone slot

View from the top. You can see some of the sliding  mechanism here

The brackets holding the phone in place is visible here. You can also see  a picture of the phone's camera and flash imprinted on the slot. Asus did that to make sure there was no mis-insertations. The phone has to be placed as pictured meaning with the rear facing out. It even shows the rippled grooves of the phone's back cover

Asus logo at the top left above the screen.

The large speaker grill toward the left side as well as the volume rocker

Custom ASUS micro-USB port

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but when in tablet mode, the Station's micro-USB port only functions as a power source. File transfers etc. is not possible. The computer doesn't seem to recognize it as a phone, tablet or any other USB device when connected from computer to tablet with phone inserted. So in order to transfer the pictures as I had to, you either need to transfer them wirelessly through bluetooth, wifi or an online service such as email or cloud storage. If you want to use USB, you have to plug the cable directly into the phone meaning you have to remove the phone from the station.

Now to display the quality of the rear camera, here's a picture of my dogs. I would say the quality is great for a phone camera, but I'm no photographer so I will let you do the judging. The difficulty of this shot in regards to lighting, colors etc. is probably not that high, but I still think it shows an accurate display of colors compared to the real thing.