11-18-2003, 05:00 PM
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Asus A716 Pocket PC Phone?
http://www.mobi-mania.com/index.php?xCnt=plus/comment&id=2449&title=Commentaire
Mobi-Mania has some information, in French, on what looks like a new Pocket PC Phone from Asus.
Features include:
� Windows Mobile 2003 OS
� Intel PXA255 400MHz X-Scale
� 64MB of RAM, 58MB available to the user
� Both Bluetooth and WiFi are mentioned, as well as CF and SD. Not sure if BT/WiFi are integrated or available via expansion cards.
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11-18-2003, 05:11 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Loox like this is the exact same device as the new FujitsuSiemens Loox610 PocketPC...  So i suspect the antenna is just for the WiFi thing...not for any phone functionality...
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11-18-2003, 05:15 PM
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Pupil
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Also the speaker is in the wrong place and I don't see a microphone.
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11-18-2003, 06:18 PM
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Thinker
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Button layout makes it longer, if you have issues with length :mrgreen: . still, a nice clean design.
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11-18-2003, 06:22 PM
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Something about this design just looks wrong to me. Maybe its the weird button length-enhancers, but still, i hope the finished product is a bit more compact w/o speaker on the front.
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11-18-2003, 06:39 PM
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Pupil
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direct translation ;)
"At the mobility party, we saw the MyPal A716, a PPC which will be launched by Asus in 2004. This new model, successor to the A620, will have a 400mhz Intel Xscale PXA255 processor with 64MB of RAM (of which 58MB will be user accessible). Equipped with Windows Mobile 2003, the A716 will offer both Bluetooth and wifi connections [they're both built-in] and will have both an SD card slot [no mention if it's SDIO] and a CF card slot. It weighs 170 grams."
There you have it guys, no phone, just *hopefully* really good wifi access.
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11-18-2003, 07:14 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Re: Asus A716 Pocket PC Phone?
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
http://www.mobi-mania.com/index.php?xCnt=plus/comment&id=2449&title=Commentaire
Mobi-Mania has some information, in French, on what looks like a new Pocket PC Phone from Asus...
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The Web site indicates it a PPC not PPC phone...This confirm the speaker and button layout observation. Both WiFi and BT are present.
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11-18-2003, 07:40 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Looks like the child of a LOOX and Axim X3i...why can't we have new designs every now and then?
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11-18-2003, 08:11 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Still too much bezel and not enough screen.
OEM manufacturers, either:
a) make the device smaller so that the sides are barely larger than the screen width or
b) use a bigger screen.
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11-18-2003, 09:18 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2003
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The antenna almost look "drawn" on :lol:
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