Asus E600 Windows Phone 7 Device Passes Through FCC

December 6, 2010 | By Pradeep

We all know Asus was working on a Windows Phone 7 device but the release date of the devices were not announced. Microsoft first demoed Windows Phone 7 at MWC using a prototype from Asus, then again an Asus device (E600) was used by a Microsoft Manager to demo Windows Phone 7 features (Find the video below after the break).

After that Windows Phone 7 devices were launched in US, Europe and many parts of world with devices from Samsung, HTC and LG. At that time many wondered why Asus, which was an announced launch partner, had not produced a device. Now the Asus E600 has finally passed the FCC, and based on the details it appears it will have 4 inch screen, 5MP camera with LED flash and a 1300mAh battery.

Of note is that the handset was spotted yesterday on DslReports speed test running at 3G speeds on AT&T’s network, which is good news for US readers.

537 kb/s 0.194s (1024k) mycingular.net Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows Phone OS 7.0; Trident/3.1; IEMobile/7.0; ASUS; E600)

Interestingly Asus ended the Garmin-Asus joint venture earlier this year and announced it will focus on Windows Phone and Android devices, but the device, at least at the FCC, still bears some Garmin-Asus branding.

Video after the break.

Source: FCC Via PhoneArena

About Pradeep Viswav

Pradeep was a Microsoft Student Partner when he was pursuing his Computer Science & Engineering degree. He now works for a MNC. He is passionate about technology and loves to share his knowledge with people. People used to mention him as “A Geek who is not Nerd”. He was fascinated by the Metro Design language and Windows Phone which made him to follow and develop applications for it. Follow him at twitter.com/pradeepviswav

Tagged asus, asus e600, AT&T, windows phone 7

Soosan

It's gorgeous! Something to fit the Metro UI perfectly, like the Omnia 7 does.

Shame about the big bezel on top though
BibaButzemann

Hell yeah! Nand plus microSD, what I want!

Hopefully it will make its way to europe also!

dropqube

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http://twitter.com/AaronCT123 @AaronCT123

Well the Samsung Focus uses Nand plus microSD as well and while I'm super-excited that the feature will make it into more devices (and so probably not die/eventually be supported) we're still waiting on those WP7-branded cards and no official list of equivalents has been given yet.

Just Visiting

Admittedly, the brush metallic look on the leaked photos of this phone grabbed my attention – it was different and aesthetics are important to me as this is what draws me to a phone initially. It seems as though, at least from these photos, that the brushed metallic look didn't carry over to the back of the phone, so I am not liking the look of the back so much (and the camera lens and flash could be a little more subdued). But, since they will have to rebrand the back of the phone anyway with 'Windows Phone' maybe there's a chance! Also hoping that the battery will be at least 1500 mAh. Wow, this was the phone that I was waiting for, regardless of carrier, but not so sure now based on the current photos.
xma1e

Good looking phone, the first one to challenge the asthetics of the HD7.

Only problem with WP7 is that there is no standard for docking stations amking it hard to compete withe the Apple eccosystem. They should bring out a universal holder for all Wp7 phones (sorry this is Asus unrelated)
Casey

Dang, I was really hoping this would be a bit more impressive. I want some hardware that will not just compete with other top smartphone offerings but go above and beyond. I guess I will wait for this to drop hopefully early 2011 but it isn't as impressive as I had hoped. Would still probably choose the Focus as this point.

When will phones start shipping with the new snapdragons?