Touch-Oriented Asus P565 Boasts 800 MHz Processor

Asus has unveiled a business-oriented Windows Mobile smartphone with a new touch-driven user interface and an 800 MHz processor.

The P565 will use Asus' Glide UI, which lets users to perform a variety of navigational actions — such as selecting, zooming, scrolling, and flipping — through flicks of their fingers. Incorporated into Glide are applications that enable users to easily access a wide range of functions such as looking up the latest news, checking the weather forecast, viewing photo slideshows, and listening to music.

This device will come with a suite of business-oriented features and software, including Push mail, business card recognition, and Microsoft Office Mobile.

All this should be speeded up an 800 MHz processor from Marvell  —  an unusually fast chip for a smartphone.  Asus says this device's Vsbenchmark scores are almost twice that of competing products in its class.

Features Galore

The P565's feature list goes on and on.

It will have a 2.8-inch VGA (480 by 640 pixels) high-resolution touchscreen. This is a relatively high-resolution display, but not particularly large. Still, this helps keep the overall size of the device down: 102 mm by 60.5 mm by 16 mm, 120 g.

This will be a tri-band GSM phone (900/1800/1900 MHz) with 2100 MHz UMTS/HSDPA, which means it will work well in Europe and Asia, but not N. America. It will also have Wi-Fi b/g and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR.

This Asus smartphone will run Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. It will sport 128 MB of RAM, 256 MB Flash ROM, and a microSD card slot with with SDHC support.

Other features will include a SiRFstar III GPS receiver and 3 MPx camera.

More information on the P565 is available on Asus' website.

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