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Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

DJTripleRRR — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:07:26 EST

Why does it look so much like the E95? Couldn't they make it look just a little more differnt?

DJTripleRRR

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

Lavallee017 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:26:44 EST

The EnV built with a decent OS!? Bring it on please ASAP...too bad I wont be able to use it with Verizon

Lavallee017

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

rlreif — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:57:20 EST

whats with tri-band gsm???!!!
seriously...
how can a high end phone not work globally??
who would buy that

rlreif

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

Mongoose — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:21:20 EST

Yet another in the enV, the Switchback, Wildcard series: Nice internal keyboard but itttybitty screen. These are the first-generation. and we should be moving towards the second soon: bigger internal screens that more wholly fill the 'inside'. Right now, that screen looks to be the exact same size as the outside screen.

Mind, the other stats are nice. It's... getting there.

Mongoose

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

Stacky Botrus — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:17:31 EST

That screen is much to small. Throw it in the garbage, please. As if to be a conical pertrusion.

Stacky Botrus

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

tamoko — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:00:44 EST

Why such a shittily small screen? Otherwise it looks sweet. I like the integrated thumb pad, a pretty hefty processer (foe a phone) and of course a full keyboard.

tamoko

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

slingblade — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:44:24 EST

Looks like an LG enV (first gen) on the inside...

slingblade

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

i4ni — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:26:24 EST

WANT!

i4ni

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

LauPan — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:23:59 EST

Ohhhhh, I think the Real Estate on either side gives the screen a nice frame. It is also a great place to stick your during those moments you need to stick it somewhere for a short time.

Too bad it is not Quad band. Does it have an expanded memory slot?

Maybe this will prompt HTC to develop a similar model with a larger screen, one of the great benefits of competition.

LauPan

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

OldSchoolGadgetLover — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:18:54 EST

@zenpoet: Yeah, Asus creates some killer stuff, but they do tend to like to short change the screens in favor of adding lots of extra plastic to the sides for some reason.

OldSchoolGadgetLover

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

kevininstereo — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:08:58 EST

don't like:
WM6
Small Internal Screen

do like 3g

kevininstereo

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

Erwos — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:53:29 EST

Yeah, a bigger screen on the inside would have made it a killer Windows Mobile phone. I suspect the issue was more that WM6 doesn't have support for 800x352 (ala the E90), only 800x480. Unfortunately, that area of the phone doesn't look anything like 16:10. :( This is a tri-band phone, so it could be problematic for usage in the USA, too.

Eventually HTC will get it right, I think, but this is a good showing by Asus.

Erwos

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

Khamel — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:51:02 EST

i was just talking about a phone like this for wm. i'm likely going to wait on the apple sdk and any possible androided phone in Feb-March but this is at the top of the list for wm phones.

Khamel

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

SomeoneUKno — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:42:56 EST

@zenpoet: I agree with you too. Loof like they could have put in some kind of speaker at least or something that would fill in the space over there somewhat. Ah well.

Does seem to look like a solid WM6 phone. Anyone got a price on this one? Would be fun to get and try out at least...

SomeoneUKno

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

nsiegel — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:34:20 EST

Looks like someone enV'd The Verizon's enV...

nsiegel

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

TJ — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:19:09 EST

I agree with the lost real estate comment. Other than that, this looks like a decent choice. I've been seriously impressed with Asus' offerings as of late but am I correct in saying that they're not available state-side? If so, what's the deal?

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

bpatten — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:16:53 EST

@zenpoet: yeah, what's up with all that bezel?

maybe their going to make a whole line of portable electronics that look like the eee pc since it's selling so well...

bpatten

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

zenpoet — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:15:15 EST

I like the look, but there appears to be a lost of wasted real estate on either side of the internal screen. I am not saying every inch has to be jammed with stickers or screen, but at least make it look like you intended to have that design layout, and didn't just run out of bigger screens.

zenpoet

Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has QWERTY

D.LYTE — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:10:34 EST

i don't like phones, really. there is a time and place for communication and it's not while driving. i understand the concept and applaud the science. but the weakest link is the human element. we are destroying ourselves. it's inevitable.

that said, i really like this phone. and i don't really like phones. but that's another story.

happy holly jolly

burl ives.

D.LYTE