Asus R600 GPS sports auto light sensor

Asus is wondering back into the wilderness that is the portable GPS market with the R600, but we'll admit, it certainly did a fair job differentiating this one from all of the middle-of-the-road alternatives. For starters, you'll find a 4.3-inch WQVGA touchscreen, Samsung 400MHz processor, 128MB of Flash ROM, 64MB of SDRAM, a SIRFstarIII chipset, SD expansion slot for up to 4GB of additional media, a rechargeable battery good for six hours or so, optional TMC module, a multimedia player, and handsfree calling via Bluetooth 2.0 for good measure. Additionally, it features an auto light sensor which automatically adjusts the LCD backlight when the time comes to make viewing the screen a bit more pleasurable. Unfortunately, mum's the word on pricing and availability at the moment.

[Via FarEastGizmos]

[Miles @ Jul 20th 2007 8:22PM]

YET ANOTHER feature that Apple invented and was blatantly stole.

[daliminator2000 @ Jul 20th 2007 9:14PM]

1) Apple didn't invent it.
2) "Stolen"

kthxbai.

[Kris Janssen @ Jul 20th 2007 8:26PM]

So basically what the TomTom 900 already offered a full year ago... *yawn*

[Brad @ Jul 20th 2007 9:41PM]

Garmin had it in the 2610 in 2003.

[MMalecky @ Jul 20th 2007 9:04PM]

..."wondering" back into the wilderness...? WONDERING????
Thinking about it?

Engadget, please hire me to spellcheck everything for you.


(The correct spelling in this case would be "wandering".)

[TIMMAH! @ Jul 21st 2007 12:13AM]

Navteq or Teleatlas?

[political forum @ Jul 21st 2007 1:44AM]

I drive to a lot of new locations. I usually use MapQuest the day before and then use my map as well. I think something like this would be pretty handy, especially if care manufacturers just started building it into current models right now.


- tom

[Wwhat @ Jul 21st 2007 2:16PM]

So asus is making a bog standard GPS device like every other company on the planet, fascinating.. not.

[Matt @ Aug 30th 2007 3:54AM]

Why is everybody on this page so stupid/careless? This gadget is MULTI functioanl and does so many things that other GPS devices only dream of doing... and it does it all in one small and stylish package:

bluetooth phone that replaces your earpiece in the car, picture/video/mp3 player. LONG battery life. GPS with REAL TIME traffic updates.... I'm impressed, and hopefully you are too now that you know what it has. I can't wait for it to come out... think about it, it'll replace many things in your car.
http://event.asus.com/pnd/r600/