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The all touch GPS Phone Asus P320 Mini PDA Review

Author: Gadget Techie, Category: Asus, Gadget Reviews, Mobile Phones, Windows Mobile

asus p320 all touch GPS

So Taiwanese company Asus plan to take a share of the pie from China’s HTC with their latest Mini PDA the Asus P320 phone. The phone features a great stylish shape with ultra features like GPS, A much Improved Today Screen and Wifi. All this for an Indian price of Rs.12000 (Street Price ) is quite a steal. The phone has the latest Windows Mobile professional with an all touch interface like the HTC Touch and IPhone.

The phone’s specifications are:

Let us discuss the Pros and Cons of this phone Asus P320:

Pros:

  1. Built in GPS ensures you dont have to carry around an external receiver, this can easily become your navigator.
  2. WLAN Wifi
  3. Quadband – All continents are in your reach.
  4. Supports upto 32 GB Micro SD SDHC cards
  5. Improved Asus Today screen and Asus Launcher
  6. Microsoft Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 (Latest)

Cons:

  1. Very small, very very small, so using Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 can be pretty agonising
  2. No external keyboard app, the default keyboard is very difficult to use
  3. No FM , couldn’t they give FM :O
  4. 64 MB RAM might be too small
  5. TI OMAP 850 200 MHz is an ancient processor with very low processing power.

Verdict 

Dont buy the Asustek Asus P320 as of yet, the phone is a new phone and Asus being relatively new in the market , the phone may have some reliability issues, wait for 2 months so that you can see reviews pouring in and make a better call. The phone is too small for those with larger hand and plus the processor is slow and RAM is less. These might make the phone sluggish and useless.



4 Responses

  1. Deepak Sharma

    23|Jul|2008

    I have recently purchased P320 – easy to use with quite a lot of feature with the price range of 11k-12k.

    The only thing that might annoy you is that you will have to keep on resetting the phone quite often (could be once in a day) as it hangs a lot.

    I am using the phone with 2 GB card, so not sure is it because of that, need to check.

    the phone is good in terms of handwriting recognition, messages, email and gprs.

  2. Gadget Techie

    23|Jul|2008

    Yeah Deepak, i also have the same phone and its just great. My only problem is with phone reception, sometimes the phone just stops receiving a signal for 10 seconds or so. I am yet to experience hanging though.

    I use a 4GB micro SDHC card in it.

  3. nj

    05|Mar|2010

    hii..plz tell me how can i use the gps on my asus p320…plz help me with all the req. details…

  4. Gadget Techie

    17|Apr|2010

    To use the GPS, first update the GPS websites via GPRS/Wifi.

    After that you will need a maps application, Google Maps is free but needs data transfer, open the maps application, it will automatically search for satellites and do the needful.


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