Almost everyday after I'd discovered the P525 & subsequently creating this thread, I've tried to've sweet dreams of the P525 by thinking of it every night before I go to sleep, but to no avail.
Then, out of the blue last night, my wish came true, even though I'd forgotten exactly how the dream went,
but it was definitely about the P525. Later during the day, I went to pick up a copy of the
New Straits Times. As I flipped the pages of the
Tech & U pullout hoping to find good news on the upcoming
Pikom PC Fair, my hope was realized...
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Draw for new launches
By Chooi Yew Tzen
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The immense popularity of Pikom PC Fair has drawn the interest of numerous exhibitors intending to unveil new products during the three-day event. This makes sense, says Pikom PC Fair 2006 organising chairman Low Wai Sun, as the fair is prominent with lots of visitors.
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Asustek Computer Malaysia Sdn Bhd (KL Booth No. B12) shared their intention to unveil the P525 Quad-Band PDA Phone at the fair in Kuala Lumpur, which starts this Friday.
Asustek Computer Malaysia's channel manager Lim Jiann Yee says the new P525 will appeal to mobile executives as it incorporates push e-mail, Wi-Fi/general packet radio service support, a client to access Skype, a popular Internet telephony service and a two-megapixel digital camera which doubles as a business card recognition device.
"As an introductory offer, we will bundle the P525 with RM400 worth of items, including a Bluetooth headset and mini SD-RAM card," he says.
Excerpt courtesy of
Tech & U (Page C6),
New Straits Times (Thursday, August 10, 2006)
BTW,
the news's not found on their website, but on the newspaper itself.
Could my dream mean something? A premonition come true? Or just a moment of over enthusiasm. The latter would seem the most logical, no argument about that. :wink: But lets get back to the point here...
THE P525 M'SIAN DEBUT AT PIKOM PC FAIR 2006, K.L.!!! 
After 3 months of anxiously waiting for the arrival of the P525 on M'sian shores, our patience'll finally be rewarded with the unveiling of the P525 at the upcoming
Pikom PC Fair 2006, K.L. leg!
The news' certainly good news, not just to LYN members who openly share their desires in this thread to own the P525, but to all forum readers out there keeping themselves updated on the availability of the P525. I thank y'all for your tremendous support for this thread.
From the excerpt above, the P525'll be sold bundled with freebies, but Mr. Lim stopped short of revealing the retail price of the P525 itself & whether it'll actually be sold at the fair. IMO, the P525
(a) could be sold at the fair,
(b) could be pre-ordered at the fair, together with the bundled freebies, /
© couldn't be available for sale at the fair, but the offer still stands when the P525 finally goes on sale.
Again, IMO, reason for possibilities
(a) &
(b):
competition. As y'all know, the Dopod 838 Pro & O2 Xda Atom Exec've just been launched & together with HP & their IPAQs (especially their rw6800s & hw6900s) & possibly E-TEN's G500 / M600+, they could steal a chunk of ASUSTeK's potential customers.
Reason for possibility
©: the P525 might still req.s
fine-tuning & ROM fixing to prevent it from teething prob.s. If this possibility happens, then (personally) ASUSTeK, do what you must for the benefit of the P525 not becoming an unnecessary burden to your potential customers like what'd happened to Xda Atom & IPAQ rw6800s customers when they were initially released. Though some forumers out there might disagree with my statement & can't wait any longer for the P525, I'm sure most of you wouldn't wanna constantly travel back & forth to your seller because of software prob.s & bugs in the P525.
I guess that's enough of speculations for now. Whether the P525'll be sold today / not, the only way to find out's to visit the fair at KLCC. Once again, thank y'all for your support for the P525 & for keeping this thread strong til' the M'sian debut of the P525.
In approx. 10 1/2 hours, M'sians & visitors to the K.L. leg of the
Pikom PC Fair'll witness, for the 1st time with their very own eyes (
yours truly included), the P525 in all its entirety.
More reviews on the P525:-
1) Mobinaute:
http://www.mobinaute.com/mobinaute/article...=200607261707162) PPCReviews:
http://www.ppcreviews.net/content/view/756/7/3) GO3C:
http://www.go3c.com.tw/Item_List_0.php?INO=PDASP502 
Jun 28 2006, 06:52 PM
) from the main Global site. But the point here's, if the official product site's on these regional websites, that could mean that the P525'll (almost definitely) be available in those countries soon..., / could it already be there? 
<insert The X-Files theme here 
For non-Chinese readers, too bad... You've to either get a person to translate the manuals for ya (if you're too impatient to wait for the English ver., i.e.) / simply wait for the official English ver. to be release, which also means wait for the P525 to be released outside Taiwan. 
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), that's usual for newly-released PDAs. At least in the end, we'll get to try out all the devices available before finally purchasing the ideal one for ourselves. Though the next big device after the P525's the HTC TyTN, 3G's not everyone's cup of tea, & microSD?! Why?!!! 
) & dishing out more than RM 3000 for it. 
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