ASUS' "Goose" clamshell takes flight

by Evan Blass, posted May 19th 2006 at 10:17AM

While we're all for cellphone manufacturers giving their handsets "regular" names along with those annoying model numbers (Chocolate, RAZR, everything HTC makes), we're sure that there are still enough good words left that ASUS didn't need to resort to naming their latest cameraphone after a common waterbird. Besides its rather clunky pseudonym, "the Goose" sports a pretty attractive set of ~~feathers~~ features, including a two megapixel camera, music playback via the built-in MP3 player or FM radio, Bluetooth, PictBridge support, 64MB of RAM plus a microSD slot, voice recognition capabilities, and perhaps the ability to to use it as a webcam. No word on when a gaggle of these Geese will be touching down (probably just in Korea), nor for how much, but we've already moved on to wondering about that "Superman" phone that seems to be referenced in the background of this pic...

[Via MobileMag]

Filed under: Handsets, ASUS

Tags: 2.0 megapixel, 2.0Megapixel, asus, bluetooth, cameraphone, clamshell, flip phone, FlipPhone, fm tuner, FmTuner, geese, goose, korea, microsd, mp3, pictbridge, superman, two megapixel, TwoMegapixel, waterbirds

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Michael Kwan @ May 19th 2006 3:43PM

FYI, here is the link for the "Superman" phone you're wondering about:
http://aving.net/atc/read.asp?cm=D&c_num=16720&BT_ExRef=1&gotopage=3

Neutral

Jamar @ May 20th 2006 1:24AM

Asus is *CHINESE*, not Korean. Their phone will probably be GSM/GPRS, not CDMA. It is still yet to be seen whether that GSM is the type that the US supports, however.

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