ASUS P525 Pocket PC phone gets reviewed

by Chris Ziegler, posted Sep 16th 2006 at 3:44PM

CNET's Australian outpost had a chance to put the ASUS P525 smartphone through its paces recently, using the BlackBerry 7130 series and the just-launched HP iPAQ hw6900 series as measuring sticks. They found it compared favorably to both, clocking in a bit heavier (though similarly sized) to the 7130 and besting the hw6900 for battery endurance, though some folks cross-shopping the P525 with the hw6900 might be swayed by the latter's QWERTY keyboard nonetheless. Strangely, though the P525 includes business card recognition software, the reviewer found that the phone's 2-megapixel cam wasn't sufficient to deliver the clarity needed for the software to actually function. The lack of 3G is a downer, too, but hey -- it looks mighty purty, and that's the important thing with a smartphone, right?

Filed under: Handsets, Reviews, ASUS, Windows Mobile, GSM, GPRS, EDGE

Tags: asus, cnet, p525, phone edition, PhoneEdition, pocket pc, PocketPc, review, windows mobile, windows mobile 5, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile5, wm5

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Owen @ Sep 16th 2006 4:09PM

no 3g but skype, so wifi right?

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Julian @ Sep 17th 2006 12:30AM

i dont really need keyboard or really 3G but SKype and wifi, bluetooth are musts. Hey it also got looks ill think about it after im done with my v3i.

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