David SmithAsus’s upcoming 8-inch tablet Asus P008 has just got the FCC approval in the United States and we can now expect that the device will be launched soon. The Asus P008 was spotted listed on the GFXbench database with some specs listed in the listing. Asus will surely launch the Asus P008 tablet in the ASUS Zenpad series of tablets and this tablet is expected to be a mid-range tablet that will have a price tag of around $200-$250 judging from the specifications of this tablet on GFXBench.
The FCC documents for the Asus P008 tablet includes some tests including Bluetooth and WLAN approvals. The tablet comes with 4G LTE, Bluetooth 3.0 and other standard connectivity options as well. The tablet will have a Li-ion 4680 mAh battery according to the FCC documents. The documents doesn’t lists any images of the device and other specs are also not available in the leaked documents, so we can’t confirm the other specifications of the tab;et from the leaked FCC documents.
The Asus P008 tablet was found listed on GFXBench with specifications like a 7.9-inches display with 2048 x 1536 pixels resolution. It is powered by a 64-bit 1.8GHz hexa core Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 (MSM8956) processor with Qualcomm Adreno 510 GPU and 2GB of RAM. It features an 8-megapixel rear auto focus LED flash camera with a 2-megapixel front facing camera. The tablet runs on the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS out of the box. It will have 16GB inbuilt storage capacity.
The ASUS P008 tablet will be the successor of the ASUS ZenPad 8.0 tablet that was launched in October last year in India. ASUS ZenPad 8.0 comes with specifications like an 8-inch 1280×800 pixel LED-backlit IPS display and is powered by a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 615 (MSM8929) processor paired with 2GB of RAM. It has 16GB of inbuilt storage expandable via microSD card up to 64GB. This tablet comes with 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, Micro-USB, GPS and Glonass connectivity options.
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