ASUS Galaxy 7 touchphone

Photos of the ASUS Galaxy 7 touchscreen buzz accept been bustling up for months now, and due to a affinity a assertive Samsung device, it's been referred to added than already as an "Omnia-killer" (of course, we accept the urge, but we accept to ask if it's alike account the effort). Now it looks like the association over at Mobile Review accept their easily on the thing, and they've been affectionate abundant to allotment their thoughts. Right off the bat, they were aghast to apprentice that affairs for a 800 MHz processor had been scrapped in lieu of the far beneath agitative 528 MHz Qualcom MS7200A, but they again go on to accord backdrop to the phone's Glide interface (on par with TouchFlo3D, it seems) and its body affection -- the handset itself seems sturdy, able-bodied considered, and it alike integrates some covering for that blow of "class" that alone a asleep beastly can bring. Other than that, it's appealing abundant what you were expecting: a WinMob buzz with a 5 megapixel camera, a 3.5-inch (800 x 480) display, 512MB memory, 4GB accumulator and a microSD slot. The buzz should be accessible aboriginal abutting year.

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ASUS gets official with P835 WVGA

Last we checked, Mobile World Congress concluded a few canicule ago, but clearly ASUS doesn't apperception a bit. Out of nowhere, the aggregation has aloof alien its newest Windows Mobile 6.1 (boo...) smartphone, the P835. Without a doubt, the two standout appearance actuality are the 3.5-inch WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen and abutment for HSUPA 7.2Mbps downloads. The handset comes loaded with Opera Mobile for web surfing, a trackball, the company's new and bigger Glide user interface, a array acceptable for six to seven hours of talking, a 528MHz Qualcomm 7201A processor, 4GB of centralized storage, a microSDHC agenda slot, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, USB 2.0 connectivity, aGPS and quad-band GSM compatibility. You'll additionally acquisition a 5 megapixel AutoFocus camera and video recording, and beautifully enough, the buzz can bifold as a WiFi admission point to allotment its afire fast affiliation over WiFi with up to ten devices. As ASUS consistently does, we're larboard aerial and dry back it comes to appraisement and availability. Full absolution is afterwards the break.

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Garmin delays Nuvifone G60 yet again, Q3 launch

Hey, bethink the Nuvifone? Sure you do -- it's Garmin's access into the advanced apple of smartphones. You know, the company's Linux-based, proprietary OS buzz that's abundant on GPS integration? Well according to a contempo report, affairs to barrage the accessory in the aboriginal bisected of 2009 accept stalled, with the aggregation advertence that it will be blame the window aback appear article afterpiece to Q3. President and COO Cliff Pemble expounded on the difficulties of architecture a smartphone from blemish during a appointment alarm with analysts, acquainted "Smartphones are complicated and bringing one to bazaar that's congenital absolutely from the arena up on a custom Linux belvedere is not an accessible task." If you'll recall, the aboriginal advertisement of the Nuvifone was way aback in January of 2008, with a planned absolution in Q3 of that year -- agreement this new barrage a abounding 12 months out from the advised artery date. We're all for competitors in this market, but it seems like maybe the association at Garmin jumped the gun with all these dates they've been bottomward on us -- absent launches don't absolutely advance confidence.

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Garmin-Asus G60 slated for August launch

What's that, you're still captivation your animation cat-and-mouse for the G60 release? Breathe, child, breathe, it's still activity to be a little while afore you can get your nav on with this celly. Obviously it didn't accomplish the aboriginal bisected of the year as initially planned, but the Garmin-Asus affiliation is now adage that the buzz will still access at its retail destination afore 2010, with some places seeing it in aloof two months time. Why the delays? Apparently its custom acidity of Linux is at atomic allotment of the problem, arch the accumulated couple's alliance attorneys to advance a move to Android for all future, non-WinMo handsets -- accessories that, adverse to beforehand reports, will additionally barrage afore the end of the year. So, G60 in August, or potentially alike hotter Android nav buzz a few months later? Decisions, decisions.

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Samsung Beat DJ reviewed

The best absorbing non-smartphone account to appear out of MWC this year from Samsung may accept been the advertisement of the Beat DJ, the wild-looking egg-shaped of a buzz abounding to the border with avant-garde music and bond capabilities, an AMOLED display, and DivX / Xvid support. The handset's been on auction for a little while now (not in North America, naturally, but in added phone-friendly genitalia of the globe) and GSMArena has put it through a array of tests and disturbing flat photography sessions for us all to enjoy. If you're afraid that the appearance of the Beat DJ detracts from its usability, that's the actual aboriginal affair the armpit clears up -- the analyst says that it's absolutely absolutely adequate and accessible in the duke admitting the annular ends. We were aghast to apprehend that the TouchWiz interface lagged out from time to time and there's no QWERTY keyboard accessible -- a above faux-pas for a abounding touchscreen buzz -- and while the bond interface looks cool, it turns out to be basically abstract in convenance because it's too apathetic and choppy. Last affair you appetite to do is piss off a army abounding of moderately bashed revelers who've arrive you to bung into their PA arrangement and mix some beats by laying bottomward some mega-lame "scratches," so it seems that the abstraction ability be added of a change than a applied band-aid until they bead a faster processor in there.

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