Asus P750 Smartphone Review
February 8th, 2008 | by Fitri |
In particular, we like the whole Eee PC concept and execution, and we like the approach of smartphones. The latest smartphone we looked at the Asus P526 which is good, but not top banana ‘good.
Now comes along the P750 and I must say that it was the best that I saw effort Asus time. It ticks many cases, but there are still a few irritations.
The P750 is a Windows Mobile smartphone 6 Professional and as such, it enters a crowded market. It must be pretty special to stand out. Asus knows, and has risen to the challenge.
In terms of design, however, did Asus P750 few favours. It looks like - and indeed it is - a very fragmented candybar style smartphone. It weighs 130g and fairly heavy 113mm high, 58mm wide and 17.4mm thick. There are no mini-keyboard that lurks in all that the thickness, just a numberpad on the front frame.
The black and silver color scheme is not aimed at anyone over bowl, and it is not teeny joystick navigation, which is located beneath the screen. I hate the mini-joystick concept, and this one is as fiddly to use as any other I have tried.
However, there is a knob on the left side of the envelope, which can also be used to move within applications, and you can still use the touch screen, accessible with a finger or stylus. I will select the first every time, as Asus’ pen is short and incredibly light.
Now, with a touch screen and to all those (side) mounted buttons on this device is a recipe for potential disaster. Let it rattle in your pocket and you might want to call an abbreviated number, play your music, delete files, and to God knows what else with involuntary button presses.
There is a front facing VGA resolution for video-camera caller. With all this material goodness you might expect at the main camera would be greater than 3 megapixels, but that is all you get here. There is no flash, no self-portrait mirror. Asus has included easy access to the various controls camera putting tappable icons on the screen, but they are a little smaller and a fingernail will be precise enough if you dainty digits. Otherwise, you have to use that horrible stylus to tap them.
One feature of the camera has autofocus do. This is very convenient for the business card scanning software. I have seen it before on the Windows Mobile smartphones, and it never fails to impress. You take a picture of a business card and OCR software extracts key information and depressed in Contacts. You can make any changes that are necessary manually.
There is a lot more at the level of software added, including a utility that can show up to three time zones at once so that you can set up phone calls or meetings, an RSS reader for Windows Mobile complement the Web browser , an area protected by a password From memory to store the documents that you prefer to remain secret, and the ability to control the camera remotely via Bluetooth. There is even a graphic-oriented alternative to the Windows Mobile Today screen just in case you want a more forward-looking mobile phone main screen.