Another Eee Pad EP101TC hands-on
Netbooknews have published this hands-on video of the Asus Eee Pad EP101TC, Asus’s Windows CE 7 powered tablet, and while it seems in many ways the software is more concept than reality, the supposedly Nvidia Tegra 2 powered device does appear to play video pretty smoothly 
and the design concept appears pretty comprehensive.
Supposedly being sold for around $399 to $499, the device is set for an early 2011 release.
If the device is realized as the video hints at, will any of our readers consider buying it? Let us know below.
Asus motherboard can be overclocked over bluetooth using your Windows Mobile phone
Some people are pretty serious about tweaking their desktop, and I suspect for the same reason many of these people may have a Windows Mobile phone.
Asus has now released a new motherboard, the Republic of Gamers Extreme Series, that features a variety of ways to make tweaking the settings easy. One of the ways is pretty innovative – a bluetooth connection and associated Windows Mobile application which means you can tweak your bios in real time, all without having to actually access the host OS at the same time.
The ROG Motherboard is around £300 on Amazon.com.
Via PDA.PL
Asus CEO excited for “breakthrough Windows Mobile 7”
In this short video Engadget interviews Jerry Shen, CEO of ASUS and with Garmin one of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 partners.
He notes that Windows Mobile 6.5.3 was a significant improvement, and was able to pull a Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M10 from his pocket, hopefully suggesting this is his personal device.
He however expressed quite a lot of enthusiasm for Windows Phone 7 (which he called Windows Mobile 7), saying he felt this was the first time it appeared Microsoft was determined to win back the mobile market.
He also said he felt the GPS functionality in smartphones was very important, and thereby justified his relationship with Garmin.
Hop to around 2:40 min to hear the short segment directly.
Source: Engadget.com
Asus Windows Phone 7 phone delayed to next year, possibly all WP7 devices?
Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar has told The Street that Asus’s Windows Phone 7 smartphone has been delayed, probably to early next year.
Production of the phone has been stopped temporarily. "The phone is still alive," says Kumar, but its arrival to the market will now probably be put off until early next year.
The cause of the delay is not known, but Kumar speculates that if it’s a software issue, it could affect all other OEMs, leading to delays across the board.
Of course this news come very soon after the announcement, and one has to assume when Steve Ballmer said that phones will arrive by the holiday season he already factored all such issues in.
Do you think Windows Phone 7 devices will arrive on time? Let us know below.
Source: The Street.com
Asus P835 reviewed
WindowsPhoneMix has reviewed the Asus P835, thought to be one of the last Asus smartphones before they joined up with Garmin. This device with its massive 3.5 inch WVGA screen and trackball excited us for a while when we believed it had an 800 Mhz Marvell processor, but unfortunately we were disappointed when Asus chose to go rather backwards and settle for a run of the mill and sluggish Qualcomm version.
On to the device itself WPM found the screen super-sensitive, found the camera quality ad 5 megapixel reasonable, liked the bundled software, such as the built-in WIFI router, but found Asus’s custom today screen overlay pretty but unusable slow. The battery life was however good, especially for a 1100 mAh device, and WPM found the build-quality to be excellent.
WPM concludes:
Pros:
- Metal body (mostly)
- Most sensitive resistive screen
- 3.5-inch WVGA display is great to look at
- Built-in WiFi, BT and GPS
- Decent battery life
- Good Looks
Cons:
- ASUS Glide is no match for HTC TouchFlo 3D: Less features and slow
- Processor not as fast as the one found in ASUS P565
Read the full review, which includes sample pictures and many screenshots, here.
Asus P835 software walk though
Dawid from PDA.PL has been giving the Asus P835 a good going over, and recorded the video below of his experience.
Asus P835 – System from pda.pl on Vimeo.
While the device is pre-release, Dawid liked the interface, and especially liked the added software, like the WIFI access point feature, which can apparently be password protected.
See more at PDA.Pl here.
Asus P835 hands-on video
Pda.pl has managed to get an early hands-on with a pre-production version of the 3.5 inch VWGA-screened Asus P835.
According to Dawid build-quality is good, and the leather (real) at the bottom seems durable. The stylus was however thin and disappointing, but hopefully with the large screen and useful 3-tab UI overlay this wont be very necessary. The finger keyboard is similar to the one on the HTC Touch HD and adequate enough. Screen sensitive was OK, but this was difficult to judge due to the pre-production nature of the software, which often meant the software was slow and un-responsive (hopefully not Qualcomm disease!).
The trackball in contrast was however very useful and responsive.
The included software includes easyPhoto, easyMusic, call filtering software and software for uploading video to YouTube and flickr.
Asus P835 from pda.pl on Vimeo.
Asus P835 becomes real
ASUS has finally formally announced the Asus P835. The P835 is equipped with a large 3.5” touchscreen that runs at WVGA resolution. The P835 including blazing fast HSUPA 7.2Mbps download speeds, a responsive trackball that makes scrolling effortless and Opera Mobile, a user-friendly and full-featured Web browser. It wraps all of its impressive functionality in an elegant touch-optimized interface which is intuitive, interactive and attractive.
Unparalleled Internet Browsing Experience
The ASUS P835 is designed to help users get the most out of the Internet. It is embedded with Opera Mobile, a fast, user-friendly and rich-featured browser that brings a complete Web experience to the P835. Users will be able to perform the full breadth of online tasks—from hopping onto their social networking sites and updating their blogs, to checking email and viewing streaming video. The P835 also enables users to switch between 12-key, half-Qwerty and full-Qwerty virtual keyboard modes, allowing them to choose an input method that best suits their current task. A responsive tracking ball significantly improves scrolling, and the phone’s large 3.5” display ensures every webpage is displayed crisply and vividly.
Crystal Clear 3.5” WVGA Touchscreen
The P835 is equipped with a large 3.5” touchscreen that runs at WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) resolution—offering five times the number of pixels of most phones—thus rendering the P835 capable of delivering unprecedented clarity and screen real estate. Regardless of whether it is used for watching movies in full screen, browsing through photos, perusing documents or surfing the Internet, the P835 will provide visual enjoyment on the mobile platform like never before.
New Glide: The Best Mobile Interface, Now Even Better
The P835 features an updated, streamlined and enhanced iteration of ASUS’ exclusive Glide—the most innovative, intuitive and interactive mobile user interface available today. New Glide has been given a significant facelift over its predecessor, boasting new icons that take the beauty and interactivity of the interface up a notch—making the best even better. Subtle, bold, modern, swanky or sweet—the P835 has a theme that will appeal to everyone.
Doubles as a Wi-Fi Access Point
The P835 has the additional ability to function as a Wi-Fi Access Point. It can share its high-speed HSPA cellular data or Internet connection over Wi-Fi with up to 10 devices, such as laptops or other PDA phones. Connecting devices is a simple affair thanks to the P835’s user-friendly interface, and dropped connections are automatically restored.
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Source: Asus press release
Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M20 full specs
The full specs of the Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M20 is below.
Of note is that the device is a tri-band GSM and dual-band 3G, meaning there is different versions for each continent, which is not exactly ideal for a navigation device. The G60, their Linux version, is Quadband GSM and tri-band 3G, a much better feature set. Also of note is that the device does not feature a 3.5 mm headphone jack, rather passing audio via the miniUSB socket. This is rather a shame, as an improved media player is touted as one of the advantages of the device. The battery is also rather small for a GPS device.
On the plus side, the device is pretty small and thin. Despite what the pictures suggest, it is actually about the same size as the HTC Touch Diamond and only slightly thicker at 12.8 mm (the same thickness as the iPhone 3G).
Similar to the Touch Diamond, it also only features built-in storage without the ability to expand this via microSD card, but at least does not only come in a 4G version, but 8GB also.
The full specs are below.
First Garmin-Asus Windows Mobile Nuvifone pictured
In a seemingly unseemly haste to relegate the Garmin Nuvifone G60 to obsolescence, Garmin-Asus will be showing of the Windows Mobile version of the product called the Nuvifone M20 at Mobile World Congress.
The Windows Mobile 6.1 phone will offer the usual complement of 3G, WIFI and off course GPS, and is said also to have a 3 megapixel camera (with geo-tagging) and a “desktop-like Internet browser that allows users to pan and zoom with a swipe of a finger” which may be 6-on-6 or another browser like Opera Mobile. The nüvifone M20 has a 2.8” TFT touch screen and built-in 4Gb/8Gb My Storage.
Of course the whole point of a Garmin phone us the navigation features and Garmin-Asus says the M20 offers “the most advanced (location-based services) experience of any Windows Mobile phone.”
“Navigation functions are linked to frequently used applications such as calendar, contacts, e-mail, Internet applications and more,” the companies said in a release.
It will also feature Garmin’s Ciao! software that lets users find and navigate to friends from social networks such as Facebook.
Pricing information is expected by June 30.
Via the KansasCity.com.
Garmin joins forces with Asus – new handsets to sport Windows Mobile
Asus and Garmin has just announced they have upgraded their relationship from client and ODM to partner status, and will be working together closely on Garmin’s Nuvifone and also a series of upcoming devices, all branded under the Garmin-Asus label. Sources close the the company report that while the Nuvifone will not feature Windows Mobile, all the devices after will.
The new Windows Mobile devices will feature Asus’s custom overlay, which will apparently be the most advanced on the market, and integrate seamlessly and deeply with the underlying OS.
Three devices are planned from the partnership for 2009, the first being the Nuvifone G60 which will be based on Garmin’s proprietary OS and will not come to Europe, the other two Windows Mobile devices will have wider distribution.
In Garmin’s earlier press release they said:
LBS functionality is core to the Garmin-Asus nüvifone series, which will offer the same turn-by-turn, voice-prompted navigation features found on high-end Garmin portable navigation devices (PND). It has preloaded maps and millions of points of interest that allow drivers to quickly find a specific street address, establishment’s name or search for a destination by category. In addition, the nüvifone includes quick access to online points of interest through internet enabled local search. The nüvifone harnesses the power of the worldwide web and information about local merchants and attractions is continually updated. The nüvifone also features Ciao!™, a social networking application that bridges the gap between multiple location based social networks and integrates them seamlessly into one device.
It appears Asus will be giving up on their own smartphone roapmap with this joint venture, and after releasing a smartphone code-named the Glaxy5 they will not be releasing any further devices under their own brand.
In general this announcement is good news for the Garmin Nuvifone platform, as buying a handset just for GPS functionality does seem a bit of a niche market, while a multi-function handset running a good-selling OS is much more likely to succeed.
Read more at PDA.pl (Google translation here)
Full Asus P565 review – gives “strong competition to HTC”
Gadgetmix who has been teasing us over the last few weeks with small excerpts from their review of the Asus P565, the Windows Mobile Professional smartphone with a VGA screen and the 800 Mhz processor, has now published their full review.
Most of the review concentrates on the speed of the device, with plenty of benchmarks, and videos showing performance comparisons, as seen below:
The other features of the device, such as the pretty tasty interface, also get a good going over.
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Gadgetmix concludes
The ASUS P565 is finally something, which promises to give some strong competition to the HTC’s offerings. It’s great build-quality are appreciated. Leather back gives it a touch of class. With the most powerful mobile processor under it’s hood, you surely can enjoy the feeling of having the fastest Windows Mobile phone in hand. The screen is great, but the glide interface leaves a lot to be desired. It is not on par with the excellent HTC’s TouchFlo3D interface. ASUS is right on path to give HTC some real tough competition, if they do the marketing right.
| Pros:
Great professional design |
Cons:
Glide interface requires a lot of work to be done |
Read the full review at Gadgetmix here.
Nvidia Tegra processor find first home in Asus laptop
We have been hearing about Nvidia’s much touted Tegra processor for some time, with first devices expected in the middle of 2009.
It is therefore quite a surprise to see it turn up, not in a handheld, but as part of a side-show-like subs-system for Asus’s prototype netbook. The device has an independent 4.7 inch screen, which features the same UI Nvidia has been showing of for some time, presumably running on a version of Windows Mobile.The device can run independently from the main laptop, much like the Windows Mobile OS on the HTC Shift, but, unlike the shift, remains confined to its small screen. This however does result in more than 12 hours of active battery life when running from the laptop’s main battery.
While it is nice to see the Tegra processor out in the wild, I know many of us cant wait for the chip to run up in an actual handheld device (that does not need a laptop bag) which we can buy.
Via Engadget.com
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