Asus P750 Owners: You've Got An Easter Egg!

[Nurhisham Hussein]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/03/12/asus-p750-secretly-packing-vga-resolution/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/...vga-resolution/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Here's one you may not have heard before: a manufacturer decides to stick a VGA touchscreen in some handset model not because it wants VGA resolution, but just because it got a killer deal on them. That's the rumor being floated on a handful of sites and forums about ASUS' monster P750 Windows Mobile 6 Professional device, with some sharp-eyed contributors noticing that each logical pixel on their devices' screens are actually comprised of -- count 'em -- four physical pixels."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/hisham-20080313-engadgetmobile_asus-p750-secret.jpg" /><br /><br />Would that all manufacturers were like that. If you've got a P750, you've <b><i>got</i></b> to check this out!

[whydidnt]

Hmm, I wonder if using RealVGA or TruVGA would enable one to take advantage of the screen resolution? Of course, for those of us in the US it doesn't really matter, we don't exist to Asus, Toshiba or a host of other OEM's. :cry: :cry:

[ctmagnus]

I always figured some manufacturers would do that.

[rob_ocelot]

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