Source: Tom's Guide | Keywords: asus, p565, smartphone | Themes: Smartphones, 3GSM
You’re looking for a portable computing device but you already have a laptop. Netbooks are slightly underpowered and underwhelming for you, and you actually want something smaller. What do you do? ASUS delivers with it’s P565 Pocket-PC phone, and claims the.
Along with the Marvell PXA930 800MHz processor, the ASUS P565 has a roomy 2.8-inch 480 x 640 touch screen, built-in GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth v2.0, 3-megapixel rear camera and 300k for it’s front video conferencing camera. The device has 128MB of DDR RAM over its 256 MB ROM and has a MicroSD card slot that supports up to 8 GB. All of this packed into 125 grams of weight.
The operating system is Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, which will most definitely attract the underground cellular crowd for modding, custom ROMs / kitchens and the like, but it will also open the doors to processing capability. Windows Mobile is notorious for running ‘sluggish’ on even the best devices currently on the market, but hopefully the P565 will put an end to that.
| Networking System | HSDPA 3.6Mbps, UMTS 2100, EDGE/GPRS/GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz - Class 10 |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional |
| Form Factor | Bar Type |
| Available Colors | Black |
| Dimensions | 102 x 60.5 x 16 mm |
| Weight | 125g with battery |
| Standby Time | 3G : 300 Hours / 2G : 250 Hours |
| Talk Time | 3G : 4 Hours / 2G : 6 Hours |
| Display | 2.8" TFT, Touch Screen, 65000-color, 480 x 640 pixels |
| CPU | Marvell PXA930 800MHz |
| Memory | Built-In 256MB Flash ROM / 128MB DDR SDRAM |
| Expansion Slot | Micro-SD (SDHC) |
| Communication | WLAN 802.11b/g, USB v1.1, Bluetooth v2.0+EDR |
| Browsing | HTTP and WAP 1.2.1/2.0 |
| Messaging | SMS/MSN/MMS/Email/Push E-Mail |
| Battery | 1300mAh Li-Ion |
| PIM & Utilities | Word / Excel / Power Point / Windows Live, MSN / Voice Commander / Push Email / Business Card Recognition / PDF Viewer |
| Camera | 3-Megapixel, Auto Focus (MAIN) 300K-Pixels Camera for Video Telephony (Sub) |
| Video | Record : MPEG4@QVGA 24 fps / H.263@QCIF 24 fps / Playback : MPEG4@QVGA 30 fps / H.263@QCIF 30 fps |
| Picture | JPEG/PNG/GIF/BMP |
| Audio | MP3/WMA/AAC/AAC+3GP |
| Ringtone | MIDI/MP3/WAV/WMA |
| JAVA | J2ME CLDC 1.1 + MIDP2.0 |
The 800MHz speed of the processor alone backs up the claim by ASUS to be the ‘World’s Fastest’ PDA, but it’s still too early to actually test it out. There’s no word of pricing yet, or even where and when it will be available.
The P565 network supports HSDPA 3.6Mbps, UMTS 2100, EDGE/GPRS/GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz – Class 10 , which means it will more than likely be carried by most providers of this service at some point. Tom’s will be keeping an eye on this one!
More information can be obtained at the ASUS Web page for the P565.
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Does this mean it supports Android?
"What do you do? ASUS delivers with it’s P565 Pocket-PC phone, and claims the."
...?
Too bad it looks like crap, as much as I hate Sony check out the pocketnow hardware tour of the Sony Xperia X1 on youtube . They perfectly blended aesthetics, form, and function. This this just looks like another blackberry/samsung turd card. Nobody will spend $800 dollars on a phone with this styling, especially on a brand they don't even know.
looks a heck of a lot like my old HP ipaq h1945.
All I can say is Sony Ericsson Xperia X1; it's got more power than that thing, and by a lot, too.
Are you quite sure about that?
The XPERIA runs on a Qualcomm MSM7200 528MHz processor
How does it compare to a Marvell PXA930 800MHz?
I thought the Qualcomm was renowned for having higher performance per clock than Intel's processor.
Then again, it's not an intel...
Benchmarks anyone?
I'd want one of those for work! I like the looks, and I like the specs. Only thing I don't like is the brand, and likely the price once that is published.
The best windows mobile PDA until today was the Dell Axim X51v, powered by a Intel XCale PXA270 @ 625mhz plus an Intel 2700G video processor with 16mb dedicated video RAM.
Video playback runs shinning smooth...
The device was been discontinued by Dell because "don't had mobile phone function". But I mind the IPhone/ITouch hardware is better then this asus.