Mystery Asus does-it-all handset gets a name and a face
Well, the rumored GSM / GPRS / EDGE / HSDPA and every other connectivity option handset from Asus got a face and name today, meet the Asus P750. As an update to our original bit a couple days ago, the handset is actually a Windows Mobile 6 Standard device, not Professional as we had posted. The camera specs are listed as a 3.2 megapixel jobby -- not too shabby huh friends? -- with a potential release date of October this year. With this as the flagship Standard device, we're stoked to see what the Professional iteration might look like. So while you hit the read link to learn more, we'll begin rolling our pennies in anticipation of picking this up as soon as it hits retail.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dennispg @ Jul 28th 2007 8:12AM
it would have been nice to have a phone like this with pro instead of standard...
i got excited when i thought a phone was finally going to be pushed with the regular number keys as this phone has AND a touchscreen together! how sad...
what are the rest of the specs on this anyway? processor? memory?
is that joystick a roller ball like on the blackberry pearl? probably not im guessing...
what i really wanna see is this phone's form factor, with a pearl-like roller ball, WM6 pro with a touchscreen, an ARM cortex cpu, a couple gigs or more flash memory, and a slide-out qwerty keyboard like the htc excalibur. how many years are we away from that reality?
derX @ Jul 28th 2007 1:40PM
...*drools at the phone you've dreamed up*.
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...but I think the Excalibur has a Treo-styled keyboard; the TyTN (or whatever the hell is capitalized), for example, has a slide-out keyboard.
Martin @ Jul 28th 2007 8:46AM
@dennispg: To my best knowledge (and according to the Read link), this IS indeed a WM6 Professional device, i.e. it has a touch screen:
"Just as a reminder, the Asus P750 sports Windows Mobile 6 Professional, a Marvel 520 MHz PXA27x CPU, 256 MB ROM and 128 MB RAM and GSM/GPRS/EDGE and HSDPA at 3.6 Mbps as well as WiFi and Bluetooth are confirmed as well. Furthermore this devices features a SiRF III GPS receiver and an FM radio. Last but not least, it also includes a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera [...]."
I'll give it a year before the device you describe will hit the market, but don't think you won't want something more by the time it does. If you can live without the QWERTY, buy this and buy a 4 GB microSD card, as I expect this Asus to be microSDHC compatible (but check it out before you actually do) ;)
dennispg @ Jul 28th 2007 2:51PM
my bad.. i meant the kaiser, not the excalibur.
i liked the way it angles up a bit when the keyboard is slid out
compared to the TyTN/Mogul/etc and the way they slide out straight.
however in my search to remember what i actually meant, i came across the htc wing.
it has the number pad+slide out keyboard, but no touchscreen (WM standard). oh so close!
so what is it? do the manufacturers just have something against putting numeric keypads on touchscreen phones?? and >512MB flash drives as well for that matter?
also thanks for pointing out the read link, i never thought to check there to find out about the other specs i was curious about.
and youre right from that article one would assume it DOES in fact include a touchscreen...
i wonder why engadget says otherwise?
i currently own a Treo 700wx, so im not really planning to hop into the GSM camp.
im satisfied with what i have, but if the dream phone i described were to drop..
then i might reconsider.
but so to be more specific then about my dream phone: it would also be CDMA and on sprint!
magicvash @ Jul 28th 2007 12:01PM
Insert random apple fanboy "It's not the iphone it sux" comment here ;-)
This looks seriously cool. Why are all the cool phones GSM? :(
derX @ Jul 28th 2007 1:45PM
There are some good CDMA phones like....the steriod-loaded RAZR, most popularly referred to as the maxx Ve, Titan/Mogul, and Upstage...although the aforementioned are all based on GSM phones.
fugu @ Oct 12th 2007 4:21PM
..because most of the world uses gsm. many cdma phones are just modified from gsm versions. won't really matter once wimax etc. start rolling...
typhotog @ Aug 13th 2007 1:43PM
Actually the P750 has a touch screen as well as the push-keys. The touch screen will support hand-writing recognition, as expected, including recognising Chinese characters as well.
The P750 has literally everything that one could hope for, EXCEPT Infrared connectivity. The P750 is 3G compatible, not only it has a 3.2mp camera on the back, the front also has a VGA camera for video-calls. Aparently, the maximum SD-Card it can support is 32Gb! not that any SD-Card has reached that size yet.
The LED flash light on the back will double as a small torch (same as the P5xx). The built-in FM receiver will require the headset as an antenna.
The high-spec of the P750 is designed to beat the Sony Ericsson P1i and the Glofish X800. And at this moment in time, the P750 is on top.
The device is expected to hit the street in September (in Asia) and October (rest of the World). Expect a firmware upgrade to iron-out minor problems before June 2008.