Asus FonePad will be out in the UK on April 26 for £179.99. Pre-orders start on Friday

The Asus FonePad will become available in the UK on April 26 at Carphone Warehouse, Amazon, and Sainsbury’s. These three retailers should all start taking pre-orders for Asus’ first Intel-powered tablet on April 12, which is this coming Friday.

If you’re wondering how much you’ll need to pay for the FonePad, know that it won’t be much. £179.99, to be precise. That’s the exact same price charged for the Nexus 7 with 16 GB of internal storage (the same amount that the FonePad comes with).
The Nexus 7 can’t make phone calls, nor does it have 3G data connectivity in that version, or a microSD card slot. On the other hand, the FonePad has a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom Z2420 processor that probably is no match for the Nexus 7′s Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core.

• The Asus FonePad also has a 7-inch 1,280×800 touchscreen
• 3 MP rear camera
• 16 GB of Internal Storage
• 1.2 GHz Intel Atom Z2420 Processor
• 1.2 MP Front Camera
• GB of RAM
• MicroSD Card Slot
• A 4.270 mAh Battery

It runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, with an update to version 4.2 promised to come “as quickly as possible”.via TechRadar