Asus to launch smartphones and Chromebook next year

Taiwanese firm Asus will relaunch its standalone smartphones again next year, a top official said.

"We are working on the design and the user interface and most probably we will launch it next year," Eric Chen, corporate vice-president at Asus Global, said in an exclusive interview with Gulf News.

Asus has launched PadFone series which has a smartphone and a tablet and when the smartphone is inserted into the tablet, it gets activated. The tablet alone is a dead piece with no processing power. He said Apple and Samsung are the clear winners now in the smartphone market. Two years ago it was Nokia. 

"Nobody knows who will be the winner in the next two to three years, it could be Asus if we have the right strategy," he said.

"We will be launching Google's Chromebook next year. The cloud-based Chromebook will become one big category in PC business as it is becoming popular in the US. The education sector in the US is using Chromebook and we foresee Chromebook as a good solution for enterprises," he said. 

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