Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"We need a digital camera that can be switched on and fire off that first shot fast. It's not a commonly tracked statistic on any review site, and nobody seems to have this information for every camera. We were hoping other readers could inform us as to what small digital cameras can fire off their first pics in under a second (ideally under half a second). It needs to be small, but mostly, just really quick in operation. Thanks!"
Since so many of you are harping on about the iPhone, and missing the whole point that this posting is about the Asus Pegasus, I thought I'd point a few things out
iPhone:
Yes it's very sleek looking, and whist Apple are still leading the way in Ergonomic Interfaces - they are also firmly into proprietary exclusivity;
You can't sync an iPhone with Microsoft Outlook (not entirely sure if that's MS shutting them out or Apple snubbing MS users, which, let's face it, is pretty much a global majority)
So the iPhone is a non-starter for anyone who currently sync's their phone with their PC - and who wouldn't sync a smartphone?
The Asus:
As far as convergent devices go, this pretty much has it all;
• It's obviously an evolution of the P525, which runs MSMobile5 - so there's a whole suite of existing Applications & Utilities which can be added on,
• The camera, which even if it's only 2MPix is acceptable for happy-snaps, and Asus also have that funky OCR type business card scanner too,
• Hardware BUTTONS,which anyone who has ever used a touch-screen only device will know really do make a BIG difference, for the better,
• Adding GPS into the mix really rounds this off as an all-in-one.
The only questions that remain as far as I'm concerned will be battery life, and Audio quality (for voice recording, Speakerphone, and streaming MP3 playback to BT headphones).