Asus Unveiled the P535 GPS PDA Phone

At the GPS navigation fair organized by Navtek, Asus has presented its first GPS PDA mobile phone, the GSM and GPRS tri-band P535, with SIRF III GPS chip and integrated receiver and antenna. Unlike the Asus P525, the device doesn't have a keypad, but compensates with a 2.8 inch TFT LCD screen with 65k colors and a 320x240 resolution.

The P535 has a Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, and thus, will be able to run all the applications compatible with it. The OS runs on an Intel Xscale 520 Mhz processor, with the help of 256 MB ROM and 64 MB RAM memory, expandable through the miniSD memory card slot. The mobile has Bluetooth 2.0, EDR and Wi-Fi 802.11g connectivity, but the absence of the EDGE technology makes it an almost sure victim for the HTC P3300, its direct competitor.

It also has a 2 megapixel camera, a 1300 mAh lithium battery, helping it to be as portable as it can be, with its 150 grams weight, and a Destinator 6 navigation software.

The release location is not known yet, but rumors say that Asus might launch its GPS PDA phone in December, at a price of 760 $.