ASUS M530w

By Joseph Hanlon, CNET.com.au on 29 February 2008 12:34 PM

Tags: asus, business, mobile phone, pda, windows mobile, handset, flare, familiar

Manufacturer: ASUS

Battery Life

• Talktime
• 3 hours

• Standby time
• 200 hours

Camera

• Camera resolution
• 2-megapixel

• Video capture
• Yes

Connectivity

• Network(s)
• GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900

• Wireless technology
• Bluetooth, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)

• Data Services
• GPRS, WAP, UMTS

• GPS receiver
• No

• USB
• Yes

Display

• Screen resolution
• 320 x 240 pixels

• Number of colours
• 65K

Entertainment

• Games
• Yes

• FM radio
• No

• Video player
• Yes

Functionality

• Input method
• QWERTY keyboard, Jog dial

• Polyphonic
• Yes

• Ringtone options
• Polyphonic

• Digital camera
• Yes

• Synchronisation method(s)
• USB2.0, ActiveSync

• Software
• Office, ActiveSync, Internet Explorer

• Operating system
• Windows Mobile 6.0

• Supported audio file formats
• AAC, MP3, WMA

• Supported video file formats
• WMV

• Supported picture file formats
• JPG

• Web browser
• Yes

• Push-to-talk
• No

• Java
• Yes

General

• Dimensions (W x D x H)
• 66 x 13 x 117 mm

• Weight
• 135 g

• Processor
• Marvel PXA 270

• Processor speed
• 416 MHz

• RAM
• 64 MB

• ROM
• 256 MB

Memory

• Expansion slot
• microSD

Messaging

• Messaging capabilities
• SMS, MMS, E-mail, Instant Messaging

• Email protocols
• POP3, IMAP4, SMTP

• Push e-mail
• Yes

Other

• Phone type
• 3G, Business, Smartphone

• Form factor
• QWERTY keyboard

• Included accessories
• Manual, Software (Windows), Charger, Stereo headset, USB cable

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I have had the M530W for about ...Dave P -- 27/03/08

I have had the M530W for about a month, i find it to be a solid performer. Its clarity during phone calls is great, it uses WM6 and does everything i need of it.

The good: Call clarity, Wireless b/g , bluetooth, decent camera, easy to use.

The bad: Battery life could be better

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Been using the phone for a cou ...Andrew -- 08/04/08

Been using the phone for a couple of weeks. I'm pretty happy with it - does everything I expected. I primarily purchased this phone for it's wifi connectivity, which has been great.

The good: Keypad is better than the review implies. I found this to be the better than similar pda phones I considered (Dopod, Palm). You'll never be entering in long emails on it, but it's good for quick messages, and especially good for making appointments and notes quickly. I chose to buy this instead of a PDA phone with only touch screen capabilities because I wasn't impressed with the text input for those devices - and I'm quite happy with my decision.

The bad: Windows Mobile 6 isn't very impressive. I hope they provide an upgrade to 6.1. Nontheless, it does the job.

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