The tablet is available for pre-purchase for £180/€210/$275

Apr 9, 2013 12:50 GMT  ·  By

One day after Asus introduced the affordable MeMo Pad 7 tablet in the United States, the company announced the upcoming availability of the Fonepad in the UK.

Asus Fonepad is now available for pre-order via Carphone Warehouse for only £180 / €210 / $275. Check it out here.

The Fonepad is one of the few tablets to offer GSM voice capability, allowing users to take and make calls.

Thus, the tablet packs a micro-SIM card slot and supports both HSDPA (21Mbps) and HSUPA (5.76Mbps).

It is also worth mentioning that Asus Fonepad is powered by Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system out of the box.

Asus Fonepad packs a 1.2 GHz single-core Intel Atom Z2420 processor, which is complemented by a PowerVR SGX540 graphics processing unit and 1GB of RAM.