We have already know ASUS well by their products such as laptop and PC. Today Asus try to expand their market in Indonesia by launch smart phones. So far, 4 PDA cell phones have been released and next, we’ll find more about Asus P552w as one of low budget ASUS PDA. This is quite interesting because ASUS PDA will build a competition with HTC, both are popular vendors from Taiwan. P552w come with almost same HTC technology but with the lower price.
About design, Asus P552 is made with simple looks. Not different with other PDA cell phones, the design becomes wide following the palm of hand, slim enough, without keypad button. We could see like this in the old HTC product such as Touch.
Like mentioned before, the button function is very limited. Button provided only for communication (call/end), menus, d-pad, power and volume. But actually, it’s uncomfortable for the user because of the position and the transparent plastic material.
The plastic material which is covering the PDA seems so weak and looks like a toy especially on the battery cover. But, we need to remember that this material is used to reduce the weight. It would be different if it use doff material just like in HTC P3400i.
ASUS P552w work with Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system. The main interface could be enjoyed by touchscreen TFT 65.536 colours and QVGA with 2.8 inch display. But different with HTC which try to show the excellent interface by TouchFlo, P552w use a touch system named Glide. It would be easy for us to move, changes and access the page only by a little touch. The display looks like TouchFlo but a little less in presentation. This cell phone have qualified hardware. 624 MHz Marvell Tavor processor is believed could compete with HTCs processor. We could compare it by HTC Touch Pro which use lower clockspeed processor, but more expensive than P552w. talking about vendor quality, Marvell-ASUS and Qualcomm-HTC , both are different in characteristic and superiority.
Asus seem understand that the processor speed is too high than the. So, they try to offer progressive speed by a special software. It makes possible for us to manage the speed based on our needs. In default condition, we have already choose automatic acceleration where the processor would suit the speed based on the needs. But if we want to manage it by ourself, we could log in turbo mode, standart and power saving.
P552w provide quite large memory space. 256 MB for flash memory and 128 MB SDRAM. P552w is also come with addition memory slot, microSD card.
Features :
Mobile Office
This is the superiority from a Windows Mobile. Because come from the same compagny, Windows Mobile system give large compatibility for important files such as document management. Mobile Office is consist of various office application such as Words, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. The capability is not just as viewer, but also could be functioned as editor and could work like a desktop. Even some people said that we don’t need to buy a laptop anymore if we have windows mobile in our pocket.
HSDPA and Internet
One superiority of P552w is internet speed access. No wonder, because HSDPA network could enable the download speed up to 3.6 mbps. But, there’s no camera in ahead, so HSDPA is only focused on the internet browsing and media streaming. That opinion is supported with video streaming feature and the comptability with flash file. P552w use Internet Explorer Pocket for the browser.
Beside using HSDPA canal, intrnet browsing could also use WIFI connectivity. So, the speed is depend on the server bandwith.
GPS
P552w have been completed with SiRF Star III GPS receiver. And just like QuickGPS in HTC, ASUS also have the same feature named GPS Catcher. Unfortunately, there’s no navigation feature in this cell phone. But in some selling area, P552w have been completed with Google maps.
Multimedia
This ASUS PDA cell phone come with the newest multimedia features. We could find in the 2 Megapixel resolution digital camera, but the skill just very standart. It use fix focus camera with poor quality pictures. It doesn’t has any problem with the colours, but very less in picture intensity.
Asus following HTC by offering media player that separate with Windows Mobile standart feature. In this case, Asus bring EziMusic and EziPhoto applications. The display remind us to the MusicManager feature in HTC, include the Glide display that have been fleksible enough.
Interaction with the cell phone could be done via touch and finger slide, once again it remind us in the HTC applications. Over all there are no problems with the quality. You would like the display and perform that offering ease to find the music files.
Talking about connectivity, this PDA bring all kind of connections that you need. Bluetooth with EDR include A2DP skills, mini USB, and WIFI. The acceleration from these facilities actually same with other PDA which use the same operating system.
To support the cell phone perform, it use 1100mAh lithium ion battery, and it’s only could stand not more than 2 days in normal uses.
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