With the popularity of smartphones and mobile phones today, it seems that landline phones may be moving on towards the road to obscurity. With mobile phones becoming handy, why would there be a need for a landline phone? While people can still offer a variety of reasons, it is becoming common for people to prefer getting a mobile phone than having a landline set up at home. But for those who still find them relevant, there are makers like Panasonic that still try to find a way to convince more and more people to still have landlines at home. One way is by introducing this new Panasonic VS-HPS200S Cordless Phone and Tablet.

The Panasonic VS-HPS200S Cordless Phone and Tablet is a unique combination of a cordless phone and a 7-inch Android tablet. Both work together to provide users the best of both worlds. It also helps attain more interest for people to get the cordless phone for their home as well.

But for the most part, the interesting feature here is the 7-inch Android tablet. It comes with an 800MHz Marvell MMP2 or Armada 610 CPU. It also comes with a 4GB internal memory, 512RAM and also comes with WiFi and GPS features. It is designed to be a companion to the Panasonic VS-HPS200S Cordless Phone and can be used as a VoIP phone using Skype or by reading internet fax. The Panasonic VS-HPS200S Cordless Phone and Tablet is set to be available in the Japanese market by the first quarter of 2013. It is expected to cost around 43,000 Japanese Yen or around US$500.