So what's new today in the Asian Gadget world? Asus just announced the P735. It is a 3g smart phone running on Windows Mobile (5 or 6) . It has 256MB of built in memory, 2 megapixel camera for taking picture of your beautiful girlfriend, VGA for video conferencing with other girls, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, and miniSD expansion. And it is only1.9cm thick (.75 inches).

Again, it probably won't be released in United States, but it's good to know how Cingular and T-Mobile are keeping you away from nice phones.

Toshiba's 911T

Japanese wireless carrier Softbank released 14 new phones on 01-25-07. All these phones are based on the 3G network/HSDPA. I thought the best one in the bunch is the 911T from Toshiba.


It is a slider phone that carries a 3.0in screen that has a whopping 800x480 pixels. That is WVGA people, which is the standard for your widescreen monitor. Why does it have such big screen you ask? It has wireless TV built into the phone and you can use the ample screen to watch what you like for 3 hours and 15 minutes, which is the battery life for TV watching. It has an auto-focusing 3.2 megapixel camera, built-in 1gb memory expandable by microSD, mp3 capabilities, A2DP bluetooth. Yet with all these crazy features, it is only 1.79 cm thick, which is about .70 inches.

I want this phone! It even comes with Oakley Thump for free.

Asus' new J501 Phone

This will be my first blog and I will concentrate on what's new from Asus, the premiere electronics company from Taiwan.

On 01-18-07 Asus came out with their competitors to the Sony Ericsson W-Series and Nokia N-Series with the J501 Slider Phone. It is in direct competition with the SE W850 and Nokia N91.

It is only 1.66 cm thick, which is about .65 inches. It has a 2.2 inch QVGA screen (240x320 pixels), 2 Megapixel Camera, supports mp3, aac, mpeg4, and h.264. Memory is expandable to 2Gb. It has two features that I think are pretty special. One is that you can use the Bluetooth to connect to your computer to use as a Skype phone. The other feature is you can double the camera as a webcam.

It's a triband phone so you probably won't want to use it in United States but the good news is that it costs only about US $300 without any contract.

I personally think this phone looks nice and knowing the Asus quality, it shouldn't be a bad phone. It is too bad the way wireless carriers are setup in United States reduces the phones people can use.