NEW Awesome WM5 Pda Phone

[joehood]

I know it's not an HTC device, but this looks like it'll wipe the floor with all of its predecessors!

ASUS P525

Definately want to get it when it comes out, can anybody spot a down-side to it other than miniSD?

T9 will be a god-send. It's only a tiny bit longer than the magician apparantly. The 2MP camera is supposed to be the best on any pda yet.

Take a look http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=5775

[TheBrit]

Yes, that does look nice. 8)

[raymondu999]

From my take, if you're someone who uses PDAs/PDAphones as a gadgeteer, like me :D , and care most about specs over everything, then MAGIC will lead the way:

http://www.advancetc.com/

What I'll be missing is 3G, and a VGA screen.... :cry:

[grumble]

Spec looks ok but not sure about that navigation button in the middle of the keys. 64mb ram seems a little tight for a new device as well.
Will be interesting to read the reviews when it gets released.

[raymondu999]

Yeah, I agree with grumble. Sorry m8, but I gotta say, the performance looks a bit worrying

[levenum]

The link provided doesn't mention EDGE or other methods of fast internet over cell network. If they are missing that would be a downside...

[joehood]

I suppose it depends on the user (Re: EDGE).
I'm a music student so more than anything I need a reliable and quick to use calendar (well, diary), an easily accessible and sortable contact list, and ability to send/receive the odd urgent email on the move.

Other than that, I don't really use GPRS except for if I'm stuck in london somewhere and need to use the TFL website to find a route home, but I don't need EDGE for that!

Personally I feel mobile internet is still a bit of an expensive luxury for the average user, only necessary for businessmen. As for performance, I currently have a magician to compare to and I generally run it with 20MB spare for program memory. This is plenty responsive enough. Let's not forget the ASUS has a 416MHz cpu, so it's not really fair to compare the performance based on RAM with a wizard for example.

I text a lot, so numpad is great. Know what you mean about the joystick in the middle but I'm sure I'd get used to it! I also use A2DP so fast CPU is great. And it's quite compact of course.

[raymondu999]

errm... Joehood, no offense meant here, but if you had noticed, WM5 is actually quite slow compared to previous WMs. Magician, with 64 RAM (or, your 20,) and a 416 processor might actually have the same, if not better, performance than this Asus. Just my two cents... or three :lol:

[joehood]

Ah right, I've never owned a WM5 device so I wasn't really aware. Have had a play with my mate's wizard though and even with the O2 Active software on it, it seemed pretty nippy!