Phones Go Pair Shaped

Phones first looked and felt like bricks. Then they got small then tiny, and now they've got bigger. Next pads and tablets came along and bigger was better. Somewhere along the way the line between phone and tablet started getting a bit blurry and suddenly no-one knows if they're carrying around a giant cellphone or a tiny tablet.

So now it's a laptop, phone and tablet for the average mobile worker. Lugging these gadgets is almost counter-intuitive to the concept of being mobile in the first place.

One potentially very clever solution is a pad with a removable handheld device. It's a pad when you need it and a phone when you don't want to look like a toddler holding a tea tray up to it's head.

Both the ASUS Padfone and the CMIT Transphone have been unveiled recently. Is this the way forward for devices or a fad that'll fade?