Asus is known as a late entrant to the smartphone game, but that doesn’t mean they’re slow learner. As a matter of fact, we’re hearing they’ll be launching an Android-based phone during the first half of 2009. According to the company sources, the Taiwan-based company may initially sell these phones in the local market before…
UK: Now it’s the turn of Tesco to sell Netbooks cheaply!
First it was the turn of Amazon UK to drop the price of the very nice Acer Aspire to under £200 – now Tesco are in on the act! £198.00 gets you a “Acer Aspire One A110L White N270 512MB 8GB 8.9″ Net Book”. Nice. Click here if you want to see what Tesco has…
UK: Asus Eee PC 701 is cheap at Expansys on Friday 26th Sept, 11am-4pm
Expansys have been kind enough to mail me and tell me of a great offer they are doing for peeps in the UK, on Friday 26th September (tomorrow, at the time I am writing this post!). Between 11am and 4pm, you’ll be able to get the Asus Eee PC 701 surf in white at £117.99,…
ASUS P565 – A VGA Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone from ASUS?
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. The current evolution in the mobile world is the move to higher-resolution displays. For too long, mobile phone consumers have been forced to pick from handsets with woefully-limited pixel counts. The days of high-end smartphones being limited to lesser resolutions is coming to an end. And,…
ASUS P552w smartphone ready to compete with HTC Touch
ASUS has recently unveiled its competitor to the original HTC Touch smartphone called P552w. The device competes with the original HTC Touch and not the Diamond because of the QVGA (240×320 pixels) screen, as opposed to VGA (480×640 pixels) which is used in the Diamond. The ASUS smartphone relies on the quite fast 624MHz CPU…
ASUS Glaxy7 bringing the fight to Omnia
Some pictures of an unreleased ASUS handset, apparently dubbed the Glaxy7, have emerged, and if the specs are true, it could easily give the Samsung Omnia a run for its money. It’s packing the Glide 1.5 UI, 3G, GPS, a 5 megapixel camera, trackball, touchscreen, front-facing video camera, an accelerometer, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, and…
Windows Mobile 6.1 comes to ASUS P527
As CTIA comes to a close, ASUS has finally made available the Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM for the ASUS P527 on their downloads website. Owners of the ASUS P527 can now update their smartphone to the latest that Microsoft has to offer in the mobile world. In addition to the improvements bundled with the Windows…
Acer Aspire One UMPC – small, good-looking, and cheap!
For a while the Asus Eee PC ruled the UMPC roost, with it’s quirky but cool design, good features, and most importantly, LOW price point. Until now. Acer has entered the fray with the Aspire One UMPC – this combines an 8.9 inch screen, full QWERTY keyboard, Linux O/S, and WiFi – all in a…
ASUS cancels ASUS ZX1 Lamborghini, P560, M536
We knew it was going to happen, but we had no idea that ASUS was looking to make such drastic cuts to its product pipeline. ASUS has confirmed that their Lamborghini-branded ASUS ZX1 Lamborghini smartphone will be headed to the chopping block. The move was expected. ASUS previously stated that they would be diverting resources…
Asus-made O2 Xda Zest Windows Mobile smartphone in works?
It seems Asus and O2 are onto something. Apparently, Global Certification Forum (GCF) has just approved the Asus GM5, codenamed “Christal,” which seems developed for the Telefonica-owned O2 mobile operator. The so called O2 Xda Zest will almost certainly run Windows Mobile (like all other Xda phones do), and will sport a tri-band GSM radio…