ASUS' P565 superphone canned due to Garmin partnership?
by Sean Cooper 
posted Feb 28th 2009 at 3:02PM
Sad business if true, but the UnwiredView is reporting that ASUS' P565 Windows Mobile 6.1-toting, VGA, HSDPA, Blazing 800MHz (Marvell PXA930) monster has been quietly dumped. The reason? Nobody's talking and we've not heard reports from either Garmin or ASUS to verify it either way -- it has apparently launched in Germany and Poland, at least -- but according to GPSAndCo, its debut in France isn't happening and they point to the new partnership as the reason. In the end, it does seem as if the Garmin / ASUS team is going to deliver some pretty serious goods, so we'll not shed a tear unless something happens to them, too. Of course, this could all be fluff, so do tell us if you catch sight of one of these at your local shop.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
iphonerulez @ Feb 28th 2009 11:57PM
FIRST off, it's not the fastest processor in a handset. There is a handset with the 1 GHz Snapdragon processor in it. I think it's the TG01.
NuShrike @ Mar 1st 2009 5:48AM
It is the fastest because it's selling and has benchmarks to back it up. Xscale is also a market-proven SoC.
Snapdragon is still vapor paper-stats with no backing anywhere, and comes from a line of SoCs with a history of under-performance and empty PR. All this Snapdragon fluff has only hurt it.