Asus P552w is pretty compact, includes 3D UI plus GPS and Wi-Fi

Thursday, November 20, 2008, 5:23
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Asus has come up with a new PDA phone dubbed as Asus P552W. According to it’s review Asus P552W is looking like HTC Touch and named after a supersonic fighter jet plane, the phone is claimed to be the first PDA that comes with new user interface (UI) named Glide. Glide is an innovative touch-responsive user interface that makes navigating and performing tasks on a cell phone more interactive and intuitive than ever before.

As the original Glide online OS sports in, it is user-friendly and clear-cut approach. The Glide enables a user to perform navigational functions such as selecting, zooming and scrolling with flicks of the finger. In order to make Asus P552w more aggressive, it is compatible with 128 MB RAM and 624 Mhz. Commercially available in Asia Pacific starting this month, the P552w will retail for S$669.

This handset comes packed with standard characteristics similar to others PDA phone. But, the only downsize of this phone is its screen, which is 2.8 TFT but with just 65K color. Is there any other way to get at least 16M color similar to nokia?

Let’s check out its features:

(1) Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
(2) Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
(3) Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
(4) Camera 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video (QVGA@24fps)
(5) Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
(6) Built-in GPS receiver with SiRF StarIII chipset
(7) Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1100 mAh
(8) Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
(9) General 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
(10)3G Network HSDPA 2100
(11) Announced 2008, September
(12) Size Dimensions 102 x 60.5 x 14.5 mm
(13) Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
(14)Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
(15) Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3
(16) Customization Download
(17) Call records Practically unlimited
(18) Card slot microSD (TransFlash)
(19) 256MB flash memory and 128MB RAM
(20) Status Coming soon
(21) Weight 105 g
(22) Vibration Yes
(23) Marvell Tavor 624MHz processor
(24) Browser HTTP / WAP 2.0
(25) EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
(26) 3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
(27) WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
(28) Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
(29) Infrared port No
(30) USB Yes, v2.0
(31) HSCSD No
(32) Colors Black, White
(33) Games Yes
(34) Windows Media Player
(35) Java MIDP 2.0
(36) Organizer
(37) World Clock
(38) Calculator
(39) Built-in handsfree
(40) Stand-by Up to 300 h
(41) Talk time Up to 5 h