As soon as I saw the fonepad a few months ago I knew I wanted one, I had a Asus tf101 at the time, and I was getting a bit bored with it after a year and a half, which was the same situation with my phone which at the time was the Huawei G300, Both needed replacing and after giving it some thought (and 3 weeks with a Huawei G510....) I went for the 7 inch Asus.
First impressions were as expected, amazing. The stock jelly bean 4.1.2 is clean and free of bloatware and despite the single core Intel chip clocked at 1.2ghz and the 1GB of ram it handles itself well. There is a bit of lag from time to time but nothing more than a second glance between screens on occasion. Considering I have not rooted or played with clock speeds its more than up to the job for general use. Games like pumped BMX and candy crush will run fine with no lag at all but games like Real Racing 3 will lag but so far it has not stopped me from playing.
The front facing camera is decent quality for such a low MP but the lack of rear facing camera and LED flash do limit the fonepad's appeal as an all in one device and will mean that you end up with a bit of arm or face of the picture you are trying to take or, no picture at all.
Sound quality is very good while taking a call and there is no need to shout to the microphone despite the size. While listening to music or watching a movie the external speaker does sound a bit tinny but the Asus Audio manager can be used to sort that as best as possible however, as with all my android devices Poweramp sorts the music out and there is no substitute for a good set of cans.
As a tablet it does everything expected of it, as a phone it does everything expected of it, however you need to make sure you have big pockets and a rather large amount of self confidence. Think Dom Jolly, Trigger happy TV? Yep that's what you look like as you take a call. You could have a wired or wireless headset but if your buying one of these your probably not too bothered about what people think you look like.