Neutron :: Bomb

by John Calian |
Topics: Asus | Smartphone | Windows Mobile

Asus, maker of computer hardware, is doing its best to muscle into the smartphone business with a big release of devices running Windows Mobile 6.5. A press release from Friday announced the arrival of the P835 WVGA PDA phone. Wow, what a horrible name!

ASUS, a leading producer of innovative handhelds, today launched the P835, a PDA phone that delivers an Internet browsing and multimedia viewing experience without equal.

Asus has made PDA (personal digital assistant) devices for a while, using the Windows operating platform. It was a natural switch over to smartphones and is a good indication that most, if not all, Wintel OEMs are coming into the smartphone marketplace too.

The PR lists out all the goodies for the phone, but here is an interesting point, a list of add on software: Opera browser, Wi-Fi Access Point, YouTube, Flickr, ASUS Virtual Keyboard, Anytime Launcher, ASUS Today, EziMusic, EziPhoto, Google search and RSS Reader.

Interesting that Opera and Google get such placement.

ASUS P565 PDA Phone, 800MHz CPU, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Traditional Chinese