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The Asus P565 is Smoking Fast

Posted by Chris Leckness on November 19, 2008 – 9:03 am
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This kind of reminds me of when the Dell Axim x51 was released. The graphics chip, VGA, Fast 624mhz processor, and more. These things had the X51 looking like men among boys. That’s what the Asus P565 looks like along side the HTC Diamond in video below. The Asus is sporting a WHOPPING 800mhz Processor. It’s about time we see someone exceed 624mhz. Damn…

Thanks to WMExperts for the video link, read on for specifications of this superfast Asus P565…

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ASUS Introduces Fastest Business PDA Phone in the World

800 MHz Processor-equipped ASUS P565 Glides through Resource-intensive Tasks with Effortless Ease and Style

Taipei, Taiwan, November 14, 2008 – ASUS today introduced the ASUS P565, a business PDA phone that boasts an 800 MHz processor—the fastest in the world at the time of this announcement. Featuring ASUS’ latest touch-driven user interface—Glide—the stylish, leather-accented P565 delivers graphics and system performance beyond anything else on the market at present, posting Vsbenchmark scores almost two times that of competing products in its class. This enables the P565 to glide through resource-intensive tasks effortlessly and to handle heavy multitasking exceptionally well—making it ideal for businesspeople who demand uncompromising performance and maximum speed from their productivity tools. Rounding off its impressive feature set is a 2.8″ touchscreen running at a high resolution of 480 x 640 pixels, delivering an unprecedented degree of clarity that does wonders for both personal photographs and spreadsheets.

Gliding to New Heights of Productivity
The ASUS P565 is geared toward the business community. The coupling of an 800 MHz processor and Glide—an innovative touch-responsive user interface exclusive to select ASUS PDA phones—makes for a powerful, productivity-boosting combination. The fast processor renders the P565 particularly amenable to multitasking, while Glide enables users to switch between tasks rapidly with their fingertips. The P565 also comes with a potent suite of business-oriented features and software, including push mail, business card recognition and Microsoft Office Mobile. Other useful applications such as Anytime Launcher and Multi-Home enable users to view their calendars, the times of local and visiting cities, weather reports, online news and much more—all with an intuitive tap, slide or flick of their fingers.

Unprecedented Clarity with High-resolution Touchscreen
The ASUS P565 is equipped with a 2.8″ VGA (480 by 640 pixels) high-resolution touchscreen that delivers unprecedented clarity and brilliance. Photographs look crisper and more true-to-life, while minute details in business documents, such as the individual cells in spreadsheets, are reproduced much more clearly—reducing eye fatigue over periods of prolonged use.

Air of Bespoke Exclusivity
The ASUS P565 is designed to leave a deep and lasting impression. Its battery lid is lined with black synthetic leather, commanding instant respect and attention. The leather contrasts nicely with the P565’s modern, high-gloss face, and lends the phone a natural tactility and evocative appeal that elevates it far above other phones on the market.

About Glide
Glide is a revolutionary touch-responsive user interface that enables users to perform a variety of navigational actions—such as selecting, zooming, scrolling and flipping—easily through simple flicks of their fingers. Incorporated into Glide are also applications that enable users to access a wide range of functions such as looking up the latest news, checking the weather forecast, viewing photo slideshows and listening to music within a few finger taps. These applications, dubbed Multi-Home, Anytime Launcher, EziPhoto, and EziMusic, give the expression “the world at your fingertips” a whole new meaning. For more information on Glide, visit http://event.asus.com/mobile/glide/.
 

Networks

HSDPA 3.6Mbps, UMTS 2100, EDGE/GPRS/GSM 900/1800/1900, Class 10

Operating System

Microsoft Windows® Mobile 6.1™ Professional

Color

Black

Form factor

Bar type

Dimensions

102 mm x 60.5 mm x 16 mm

Weight

120 g (with battery)

Standby Time

250-300 hrs with 3G and 200-250 hrs with 2G**

Talk Time

3 hrs with 3G and 4 hrs with 2G**

Display

2.8″ TFT, 65K-color Touchscreen, VGA (480 x 640 pixels)

Processor

Marvell TavorP 800 MHz

Memory

256 MB Flash + 128 MB DDR SDRAM

Expansion Slot

MicroSD with SDHC support

Connectivity

WLAN 802.11b+g , USB v1.1(FS), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

WAP Browser

HTTP / WAP 1.2.1/2.0

Messaging

SMS / MMS / Email / MSN / Push E-mail

Battery

1300 mAh Li-Ion

GPS

SiRF Star III with InstantFix

Business Applications

PIM

Word (editor), Excel (editor), PowerPoint (viewer), Windows® Live, MSN, Voice Commander* and Push Email (Exchange Server).

Other Features

Anytime Launcher, ASUS Today, EziMusic, EziPhoto, Business Card Recognition and PDF viewer*.

Multimedia and Entertainment

Camera

3 M Pixel Auto Focus (Main)
300 K Pixel for Video Telephony (Sub)

Video

Record:MPEG4@QVGA 24fps / H.263@QCIF 24fps
Playback:MPEG4@QVGA 30fps / H.263@QCIF 30fps
Audio/Video Streaming

Picture Format

JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP

Audio Format

MP3, WMA, 3GP, AAC, and AAC+

Ringtone

MP3 / MIDI

JAVA

J2ME (CLDC 1.1 + MIDP2.0)

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  • Werner Ruotsalainen
    No point in comparing the VGA (!) Diamond (particularly without a custom XDA-Devs ROM, without any video optimizations) to the QVGA(!) Asus when it comes to video playback performance.

    The Diamond isn't so much slower because of the slower CPU but because of the messed-up firmware and the VGA. That is, I'm pretty sure another, better-optimized, even VGA Pocket PC or phone would have fared far better than the Diamond.
  • webbahboy
    Wow - that the heck is that sucker going to cost?
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