Yep, pretty much everything
we'd heard about the upcoming M930 from ASUS has turned out to be the real deal, making the brick-like device nearly a dead ringer for Nokia's
E90 communicator with Windows Mobile doing the dirty work in place of S60. The exterior nets you a traditional QVGA display and numeric keypad, while unfolding the beast yields a slightly larger 400 x 240 display along with a full QWERTY board. Internal storage clocks in at 256MB with 64MB of RAM, there's a 2 megapixel autofocus cam around back, and you get the usual microSD expansion, WiFi, and Bluetooth. Oddly, the whole package runs Windows Mobile 6 Standard -- not Professional -- so you can just put away any hopes and dreams of touching the display with a stylus. Look for a public reveal at CeBIT in March, so retail availability isn't expected before that.
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posted Jan 16th 2008 3:31PM
I have been the happy owner of an e90 for two days now and looking at this phone it just doesnt stack up im affraid. I do however think that it will not compte against the nokia e90 i think its going for a cheaper sale point remember that the e90 will cost you £50 on contract this will prob come in at £20-£30 a month and for that its taking on the mighty blackberry, a largly over reated phone, that i can see this winning.
64MB of RAM doesn't make it.
Odd LCD inside screen.
Huge and WM Standard only. Plus a mini internal screen.
Has FAIL all over it imho...
"Oddly, the whole package runs Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone [sic] -- not Professional"
What's odd about that? We've come across plenty of other similar phones that run Windows Mobile 6 Standard. (Not that I think Standard should [ever] be running on any device)
Pretty sweet phone, all things considered. Odd resolution on the inside LCD, though. What's the 400x240 about?
My first smartphones were the Motorola MPX200(ATTwireless back then) and then MPX220(Cingular).
After moving on to the 8125 and now the ATT Tilt with WM Professional, I could never go to the smartphone version again. It feels cumbersome.
Lack of WM6 Professional and a touch screen is very frustrating (although understandable since the outside screen would also need to be touch). The larger screen would be great with Touch capabilities...
It looks a lot like my LG enV.
I thought the same thing, but after playing around with a friend's enV, this keyboard (and the one on my 8525) is definitely much better, especially the positioning of the space"bar". Being the owner of an ASUS notebook, though, I really hope their cell phones have far better battery life.
Newsflash: Since Nokia introduced demand paging in s60 FW updates memory isn't a problem anymore...
Anyhow, why would you buy a E90 copy? The whole point of buying a Nokia is that you're not stuck with WM as with nearly any other smartphone these days :-P.
Rik, it must be tough getting away from all those WM phones, what with Nokia only owning 70% of the smartphone market.
I'm going to call this one out: "so you can just put away any hopes and dreams of touching the display with a stylus."
Technically you can. It just won't do anything.
Well, there are very little Nokia models compared to what the rest of the market offers... that they sell really well must mean Nokia is doing something right.
Not really a "dead ringer". The Nokia E90 has an 800x352 inner display and a 3.2 Mpixel camera. And who wants Windows Mobile anyway.
Or Windows Mobile is doing something very wrong. S60 sucks, but WM manages to suck even more. The usability of these is just crap.
Mobile OS X shows the way to go - a mobile OS can be both powerful and easy to use. Not to mention fun. But it is limited by Apple's control freakery and so it won't be an alternative for, probably, ever.
I am hoping for Android, more for lack of other options than anything else.
What a cheap copy of the E90. I own the E90 and the 800x352 screen is just phenomenal and unmatched. 400x240 and not 16million colours(I dont think this would be more than 262K) and 2mp cam. Sorry, I'm still going to stick with the E90. There are numerous other specs as well, that'll remain unmatched and I'm not going to list them, you've got GSMarena for that.