SmartPhones

The ASUS P735 is a Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Pocket PC 3G smartphone. With tools and features for both the professional user and the general consumer, the P735 is bundled with an impressive combination of multimedia features and productivity tools.

For example, its multimedia features include:

• Dual camera
• Video calling
• Total multimedia playback
• Business card reader

And its productivity tools include the deft and dexterous ASUS Remote Presenter app that allows users to access and manage Microsoft PowerPoint presentations from your PC, as well as a meeting planner capable of scheduling teleconferencing across three time zones.

The ASUS P735 lacks GPS or HSDPA, but it does operate on GPRS Class 10 networks. It has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity as well as a miniSD card slot for extra data storage.

The look and feel of the ASUS P735 resembles the Apple iPhone with a large screen dominating the face of the smartphone, though it has a few other buttons surrounding its primary, multipurpose button. A touch screen smartphone, the P735 has no keyboard or numeric keypad.

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Here's one device you won't see in American hands anytime soon. In fact, not only won't the HP iPaq 600 smartphone be coming soon to a smartphone dealership near you; it may not be coming to the US at all.

According to the::unwired, it's quality concerns blamed on Taiwanese ODM Inventec that led to the decision to withhold the new Windows Mobile device from shipment to US vendors. European distribution, however, is strangely enough still a go, for both the iPaq 600 and its more advanced counterpart the iPaq 900 which runs Windows Mobile 6 Professional Edition.

Is it a favor or a disservice to US users? That seems to be the prevailing question on the subject, and the right answer (as you'd expect) depends on who you ask.

The phones are 3.5 G - a boon for speed demons, for sure - and they boast a novel placement of the directional pad/track ball atop the numerical keypad - the appeal of which also depends on the individual user.

In general, the HP iPaq Pocket PC and Mobile Messenger series of PDA smartphones has been quite impressive to date. Which lends to the question: what went wrong?

Hopefully HP, who is openly considering discontinuing their relationship with Inventec, can get back in the smartphone game soon.

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