At CeBIT in Germany Asus announced a GPS enabled PDAphone called M536 which has full qwerty keyboard in the front just like a Blackberry.

Asus M536 is the successor to Asus M530W but adds new features such as the touch screen, a biometric finger print reader and a GPS receiver. Kind of different with M536 is the square screen resolution at 320×320 instead of the usual 320×240 pixels.

Main features:

• A-GPS compatible SiRF III GPS receiver
• 2.4″ TFT LCD
• TI Omap 2430 processor
• Triband GSM, GPRS, EDGE, dual band 3G and HSDPA with 3.6 Mbps
• 256 MB of ROM
• 128 MB of RAM
• 802.11b/g Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
• 3.2MP digital camera
• VGA camera (0.3MP) in front for video conference
• Biometric reader
• HC MicroSD port
• Lithium-Ion of 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional

Asus M536 will be marketed in June or July 2008 with an approximate price of 550 €. (more…)

Original post by Tim Robbins