17 January 2008

ASUS' M930W brings E90 style
to Windows Mobile

ASUS have confirmed their plans to market the M930 Smartphone and pretty much everything we'd heard and write about the upcoming M930 from ASUS has been confirmed as the real deal.

Just like the recently leaked Toshiba’s G920 , ASUS' M930 brings Windows Mobile packed in the cloned Nokia's E90 horizontal form factor that allowing phone opening at two angles, 90 and 180 degrees.

Actually, pretty much everything about the just leaked M930 reminds me on the Nokia's flag ship Eseries business phone, the famous Nokia E90. Amazing cloning skills, hats off to Asus, their clone is even better than Chinese clones of the Nokia N95 or Nokia N93i that we wrote about recently.

The known specs for Asus M930 include: Marvel PXA270M 520 MHz processor; Triband GSM (900/1800/1900), GPRS, EDGE, UMTS (2100 MHz) and 3.6 Mbps HSDPA connectivity, 256 MB ROM and 128 Mb of RAM; Wi-Fi b/g; Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, MiniUSB 1.1 and MicroSDHC memory card slot.

It has the 2-inch QVGA external screen and traditional numeric keypad as well as a broader, 2.6-inch 400 x 240 internal display with a full QWERTY keyboard.

Actually as I said in my previous M930 article, they have managed to clone the phone completely except the inner display that looks like a joke with tons of empty and wasted space around it? What is going on!?

This is simply ridiculous, what’s the point of the fold form factor if you have that same screen inside and outside!? Thumbs down for the screen and thumbs up for the conning skills, that's it basically.