Asus P535

Convergence is a word that the way in these days of mobile devices in the pack more and more things.

Indeed, standalone devices are nearly extinct - you should perhaps the greatest difficulties in the search for a Pocket PC without phone capability of today.

The Asus P535 is a fairly typical example of a Pocket PC Phone, which also creates another technology increasingly in the mix - a Global Positioning System (GPS).

In Box

While it is certainly not ugly, but there is almost nothing in the way in which the views Asus P535 - is a rectangle, which is well in hand, and that is almost everything.

Inside the box, you get a good set of accessories, even - a car charger, handsfree stereo, USB cable, and even a bendable arm with a suction cup in the determination of P535 in his car.

The P535 is also very weaken its appearance with all your software - there are a number of built-in applications, particularly "My secrets" Request for encryption for your personal files, a tool that cool World Card Mobile, and even even Skype for Pocket PC.

World Card Mobile is great - it lets you break photos from business cards, and automatically detected and converted to a contact on the Pocket PC.

World Card Mobile works surprisingly well in most business cards, the recognition of text properly and the names of companies and the appointment of jobs in your area, but there is apparently a bit of the classic letters that the programme stumped.

For road warriors, there are remote presenter, P535, with a remote control for PowerPoint presentations from your computer with Bluetooth PC.

In short, a pretty complete collection of software.

GPS Hello!

Unfortunately, we could not test GPS capabilities for the unity of the examination, because they are not with the delivery of the software GPS - Asus makes us, however, that prices of the various versions will certainly come with MapKing The popular browser.

AUTO FOCUS: The P535 has a bit of rubber on the upper right, a connector for external GPS antenna for improvement of GPS receivers
In any case, the P535 is equipped with the chipset SiRF StarIII GPS, which is one of the most sensitive GPS chipsets available today and should play, the other GPS devices with the same chipset.

We also tested before MapKing to other machines, and even if it's not as easy to use, is more than enough for most users.

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The phone

You are a Pocket PC, the P535 should be familiar territory - which in Windows Mobile 5.0, and there are all the tools to increase productivity in the office integrated system, ie the mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet Explore.

The performance is very beautiful, lively, with the 520 MHz Intel XScale processor, speed up or slow down, depending on the CPU.

The whole package is very small, and sits well in hand - in fact, if you are using a laptop PC that you feel at home with the P535.

However, I must mention that since the P535 operates completely on a touch-screen and does not come with any type of fare keyboard or alphanumeric keypad, people normal upgrade of a mobile phone so that they know, a small cultural shock.

CLOSE UP: The P535 has a stereo 2.5 mm for the left-hand and a mini-USB port for synchronization.
To enter text, you need to either the suspension or Recogniser Letter Recogniser (if you need to learn a new style of writing), or a small software Qwerty keyboard.

None of these methods, it is easy for a person who has never used a computer bag before things simple as typing a text message or a Word document.

Even if you are able, in one of the methods for entering text, it is not possible to the text to "feel" as we are in our T9 mobile alphanumeric keypad.

However, if you are not in the SMS and do everything in your company with a call to the people, then it can be good - if not, I recommend a look at a product that is with a certain form of a keyboard.

What will be WLAN, the P535 has most of them - it is with WLAN and Bluetooth, but strangely not supported plain-Jane GPRS.

The phone is not 3G or EDGE, a real trait of a real PDA phone as this would really benefit from high-speed connections.

Poderosas images

One area where the P535 is truly excellent, with the recording of images with the 2 megapixel digital camera.

The autofocus camera (still a rare feature in mobile phones), and produced some very good pictures when compared with most mobile phones and PDAs with an integrated camera.

For entertainment, the P535 comes with stereo input, the less commonly stereo 2.5 mm - that is, he must use an adapter if you want to connect a pair of headphones with a 3.5 mm stereo jack.

As for the battery, the P535 managed to last about two days, with very little for the use of WLAN - if you go to serve for the music, movies and browsing the WiFi, you will probably find the task every day.

Conclusion

In the absence of an alphanumeric keypad, a slide-out Qwerty keyboard habits, most casual users will also find P535 difficult to use - which should perhaps be better for this Asus P525, which is not alphanumeric keypad.

For advanced users, the lack of 3G and EDGE may also be in compensation, but to be honest, the P535 has WiFi

It is not so bad if - the phone, the integrated GPS SiRF StarIII chipset and the auto focus camera are all good - these three elements can in the streets of adventurers, they mainly for navigation and communication as warriors of the road.

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