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Foto review of Asus P550, 3G GPS communicator with large 3.5" QVGA screen

 

 

 

 

 

It’s an open secret that Asus production is of high quality. Sometimes their decisions look bold. Take the idea of creating the communicator with touch display and hardware numeric keyboard to turn mobile phones users to “high-tech”. Windows Mobile platform looks difficult enough for people who got used to calling and typing sms with usual mobile phone. Taking out stylus takes time and touching the screen virtual keyboard with it may become a problem. Making the move to the new operating system easier, Asus added numeric keyboard to a communicator. This way the messages and numbers typing remained comfortable. All that resulted in Asus P525, a device that had a great success. Here is not the end of the story. It is rather the beginning of a new one. The company designers and market researches advanced on this. Asus P526 possesses new OS version, hardware keyboard and GPS.

 

 

We should notice the novelty is not a previous model modification. It has the orientation of its own. That caused certain changes in the outside of the device as well as in its inside.

 

 

Though not as prolific as brands like HTC, Asus does have a few PDA-phones in its portfolio. The company's main differentiator since its earlier MyPal-branded devices is the inclusion of GPS in most of its devices. This carries on in the current range and extends to the upcoming lineup as well. Asus' current flagship model is the P750, a Windows Mobile 6 handheld with HSDPA as one of its connectivity features. It retails for S$1,188 and is available in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.