Asus P527 Cell Phone

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The Asus P527 Smart Phone is probably what you’d call perfect. When shopping for a new phone, you’d probably look at its technical specifications first and more often than not, base your decision on that piece of scouting job. Well, if you did that, it’s hard not to choose the Asus P527 phone. On paper, it has everything you’d ever dream of in a phone. But it’s not always the specs and features that matter. At least not with the P527. Later on in the article, you’ll know why.

It’s features include a big 2.7-inch LCD and spacious keypad that is both very usable and attractive. Beneath the elegance, you have Wi-Fi, GPS, an FM radio. Asus has even thrown in a even remote desktop-control feature. Great right? Well, unfortunately, what will detract users from getting this phone is its slow response time that I’m sure most users will loose patience of, and buggy applications.

What probably constitutes to the speed - or lack thereof - of the phone is that its running two mobile OS. The P527 runs Windows Mobile operating system as well as Asus’ own OS, the Asus Launcher. These two OS simultaneously runs in the background. The Asus Launcher offers its own applications to add to the basic Windows Mobile applications already there. To use the full capability of the phone, you have to occassionaly switch between these two operating systems.

Usability for the Asus Launcher is not that hard though. The only thing that will bother most people is its speed. Its terribly slow that users always on the fast lane will constantly have a hard time dealing with it.

A feature that would probably matter to some people is the P527’s GPS. The main application is Asus Go, which comes on its own 2GB microSD card and isn’t preinstalled on the device proper. The software is reasonably intuitive but is hardly as capable as a modern, stand-alone GPS device is. Other GPS applications included in the phone is the Travelog.

As a phone, the Asus P527 performs well enough. Its talk-time battery is very good and its built-in 2-megapixel camera takes good quality pictures. Better than most phones do in this class.

Sources:
http://www.feelphones.com
http://asia.cnet.com
http://www.mobiletechreview.com