Asus' E90 Communicator lookalike

John Chan | Dec 27, 2007

French site GPS and Co has information about a new Asus handheld which bears a passing resemblance to a certain Nokia device. Pictured here is the Asus M930W, a WM6 (Windows Mobile 6) PDA-phone with both numeric and QWERTY keypads like the Nokia E90.

From the available images, the external display has portrait orientation while the one hidden in the clamshell design is in landscape mode. Though GPS and Co reported that it will run WM6 Professional, the screenshots seem to suggest that it's the Standard version for smart phones without touch displays instead. Other specs include HSDPA, 128MB RAM and a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera.

One interesting point is how the internal display doesn't span the entire surface of the cover. The excess space on the left and right makes it look like another Asus product, the Eee PC. We don't think that's intentional, but is probably because WM doesn't support such a wide aspect ratio to fit the length of the PDA-phone.

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