Asus P835 officially unveiled: WVGA display, 5MP camera and more

Despite the alliance with Garmin, Asus doesn’t give up on announcing its own handsets after all.

The Taiwanese manufacturer has just unveiled the Asus P835, a brand new Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone that offers a large 3.5 inch touchscreen display with 800 x 480 pixels, plus a set of other nice features.  

In Asus’ own words, the P835 is made “for business-savvy professionals who appreciate a screen as big as their ambitions.”

The new device has a simple design and uses an improved Asus Glide interface, said to be “the most innovative, intuitive and interactive mobile user interface available today”.

The full list of specs and features includes:

• Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz)
• Tri band UMTS/HSPA connectivity (900 / 1900 / 2100 MHz) for downloads up to 7.2 Mbps and uploads up to 2 Mbps
• On-screen QWERTY keyboard
• A-GPS
• Wi-Fi
• Opera Mobile
• 5MP autofocus camera
• Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR
• USB 2.0
• Qualcomm 7201A 528MHz processor
• 288MB SDRAM, 256MB ROM
• 4GB of internal memory
• MicroSDHC card support
• Talk time: up to 6 hours on 3G networks, or 7 hours on 2G networks
• Standby time: up to 350 hours
• 115 x 59 x 13.8 mm
• 148 grams

Asus said nothing regarding the price and availability of P835, but we’ll probably see the smartphone in stores in the next couple of months.

Source: Press release via Engadget

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Posted on 27 Feb 09 - Filed in Asus, Windows Mobile - Comments - Written by ilinca

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