Asus M930

[Pete Paxton]

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/16/asus-m930-gets-official-nokia-styling-and-all/#comments

"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."

What do you all think of this device? It's strange for me. I really like it for some reason and yet I don't have the desire to own one. It has more features than my Dash and yet I wouldn't trade straight across for it. Yet like I said, I like it. In some odd way, it's appealing. What do you all think? Do you like the full qwerty keyboard under the hood of the traditional candy bar style? Do you think texting would be easier?

[Pete Paxton]

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/16/asus-m930-gets-official-nokia-styling-and-all/#comments

"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."

What do you all think of this device? It's strange for me. I really like it for some reason and yet I don't have the desire to own one. It has more features than my Dash and yet I wouldn't trade straight across for it. Yet like I said, I like it. In some odd way, it's appealing. What do you all think? Do you like the full qwerty keyboard under the hood of the traditional candy bar style? Do you think texting would be easier?

[Rocco Augusto]

I dunno, it looks cute but boring at the same time. I'm sure this will have to be one of those device where I'll either love it or hate it (like the Cingular 3125, yuck )

[Kris Kumar]

The resolution on the internal screen is 400x240? Didn't know WinMo supported that.

[altden]

Uhm, becasue Dash is good enough?

There are only few things that need imporvment on dash:
1. GPS
2. A little speed bump
3. Better call quality
4. A battery life bump (can be achieved with extended battery)

None of these are huge changes, it just takes incremental work.