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Call me a pessimist but I have a feeling we'll be seeing a Kaiser situation where the phone has the hardware but the OEM or the carrier has no intention of supporting said hardware.
This device was originally billed as a WM6 Standard device -- what are the chances that a touchscreen is there but either not connected internally or is not supported in the OS?
The other issue is that the OS itself has to be cooked to include VGA specific things such as hi-res icons. The lack of on-board graphic acceleration doesn't bode well either. I'm sure the Intel PXA 27x processor can push 4x the pixels at 520 Mhz but compared to the now-4-years-old Toshba e8x0 line it's rather pathetic. Battery life will be the pits as well, which is why phone makers have opted for lower power and underclocked Samsung or Ti processors.
I'm assuming of course that Asus is thinking and acting like HTC. They may choose to throw the consumer a bone and actually support the hardware and they have a solid track record with VGA PDA's. If they choose to go the route of HTC there's still the grey-area ROM cookers but as Kaiser owners have found out -- writing drivers from scratch is very difficult without help from the OEM.
P.S. Those 2.8" VGA screens are cheap now because everyone seems to be moving to 480x800 screens like in the new Sony Kaiser killer.
If Asus doesn't
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