CeBIT: Asus P525 Wi-Fi VoIP Phone

[Raphael Salgado]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.phonedaily.com/mobile/phone/?prod_id=2125' target='_blank'>http://www.phonedaily.com/mobile/ph...e/?prod_id=2125</a><br /><br /></div>The guys at PhoneDaily were able to get a closeup of Asus' upcoming P525 Wi-Fi VoIP Phone at the CeBIT exhibition. Other than looking like its previous model P305, not much else is known, other than a specific two-megapixel camera with built-in auto-focus.<br /><br /><img src="http://img.phonedaily.com/img/prod/phone/2125.jpg" /><br /><br />You might be able to get a little bit more if you can sift through the text or churn <a href="http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=61&t=141911">this alternate thread</a> through a translator. With all those multifunction keypad buttons on the front, one would think to just put a full keyboard in its place like the Benq P51. :?

[Darius Wey]

This reminds me a lot of the moboDA 3360. I'm not sure which of the two I like more in terms of form factor, but the positioning of the navigational button on the P525 is a bit odd. :?

[tw]

I have checked out the P525 on Cebit myself. As far as I understood it is supposed to be a VoIP phone. At least GSM was not mentioned anywhere.

[sphere]

i've posted some info and pictures in our site ("Pocket") from CeBIT.

the device features:

400MHZ intel processor
128MB flash ROM, 64 RAM
wifi (b/g) and BT
2 mega pixel camera with auto focus
wm5 OS

it has a num pad keyboard (not qwerty) and has a "hold" slide button on the right side of the device that locks the buttons and screen.
also, it is a PE device and not just (if at all) VOIP device.

here are some actual photos from CeBIT:
http://www.pocket.co.il/cgi-bin/pocketil/viewnews.pl?id=EEuElFZyFZtoegWpNG&amp;tmpl=pocket375&amp;style=pocket375

Eli Haboosh
PPC editor
www.pocket.co.il

[tw]

it has a num pad keyboard (not qwerty) and has a "hold" slide button on the right side of the device that locks the buttons and screen.
also, it is a PE device and not just (if at all) VOIP device.
Well, "Wi-Fi VoIP phone" is what the plate on the wall behind it reads in big letters. :)

http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/10064.jpg

As you see it doesn't mention GSM or UMTS at all. Though when it has phone edition it should have at least GSM.

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[sphere]

I have interviewed the guy who was presenting this device and he told me it is a TRIband phone.
I guess they have written all the not so obvious features they want poeple to stick on. they havent mention the memory size, but it doesnt mean this device doesnt have any memory.

Ill try to get back to him and ask again, though I dont think I have the time.

[tw]

I have interviewed the guy who was presenting this device and he told me it is a TRIband phone.
I guess they have written all the not so obvious features they want poeple to stick on. they havent mention the memory size, but it doesnt mean this device doesnt have any memory.
C'mon this is not so obvious. If a phone is called a "Wi-Fi VoIP phone" in big letters it is not obvious that it has GSM. Though I would think it too since it has got the Phone Edition.

Ill try to get back to him and ask again, though I dont think I have the time.
I will find out too.

[Raphael Salgado]

My apologies if any confusion...

I picked up the word "GSM" from the title on the Chinese-based PhoneDaily.com site...

http://www.phonedaily.com/mobile/phone/?prod_id=2125

ASUS P525 GSM 三頻手機

[MarcTGFG]

Not to be outdone by my fellow cellphone enthusiasts at Phone Daily, I have just put up my own review of the P525, in

english

http://pdanews-de.blogspot.com/2006/03/cebit-2006-first-impression-of-asus.html

and german

http://pdanews-de.blogspot.com/2006/03/cebit-2006-ein-erster-eindruck-vom.html

language.

Check it out :-)

If you are just interested in pictures of the device, then you will be sorely disappointed though.... ;-)