there seems to be many questions and doubt. so allow me to provide some brief review on what I think would be important if someone wants to buy this PDA Phone. (I have been using this phone extensively since 1 week ago)
1. screen is beautiful and color is crisp. Some PDAs suffer washed out screen under the sun. Asus P535 does not suffer that bad. With max brightness, I can see clearly the screen.
2. some PDA suffers from the light of the pda screen where by when you tilt the screen, the light seems to be very bright at one side and causes the screen to be washed out in white. Some pdas also have a viewing problem in landscape mode. People might not realise this but try watching a movie in landscape mode. Sometime you will feel that something is wrong with the movie because one side is clear the other side sometimes seems to be reflection. Proud to say that Asus P535 does not have any of this problem. The screen remain uniformly lit at any viewing angle either in potrait or landscape.
3. Phone works flawlessly and have I would say on par reception with motorola RAZR V3 and k750i.( i only have these phones to compare to). The speaker for listening is very clear and very very very very loud. Previously using v3 and k750i, I would almost all the time using 80%-100% listening volume but with P535, I get the same loudness at 20%-40%. During my ever first phone call, i put it at 80% as I thought it would be like v3 or k750i, the moment my gf spoke to me, it felt like she was standing beside me shouting in my ear. So i had to quickly lowerdown the volume of the earpiece to 20%. oh yes, this is where the conviniently part, the volume controller buttons so that I don;t have to tap on the screen. I also do not experience any echo problem that is experienced by some user in china.
4. CPU speed is good. The built in CPU controller can be adjusted to 4 choices : Auto (102MHz to 518MHz), Turbo (518MHz), Standard (310MHz) and Power Saving(102Mhz). I felt significant speed and performance increase at Turbo. But most of the time, leaving at Auto as the software is intelligent enough to switch to higher CPU speed if there is a need to.
5. Since the past 1 week, the battery life experience I would say is good. I manage to get about 2.5 days usage before the need to recharge(10% battery left). I have the phone configured with all wireless off except the phone turned on. 28% brightness. 80% volume. bluetooth turned on and connected to my bluetooth headset when I am in my car (say about 3 hours a day). about 15 sms a day. about 1 hour total phone calls for the 3 days. Used 30 minutes of GPS and navigation software with 80% volume. Played about 1 hour of bejeweled2. I am definitely satisfied with the performance.
Update 27th April 2007. - I charged the phone to 100% yesterday and then went out. Made a few long calls and had dinner. By the time I am set to go out to KLIA to send off my gf's sister, the charge showing 90%. i turned on the gps and use garmin and let it navigate to KLIA. the trip took about 1 hour. the charge was then 70%. after an hour in KLIA, i turned on the gps and garmin again and started back home. after about 1 hour, when I reached home, the charge was showing 50%. So, assuming that the battery consumption is linear, usage of GPS with garmin voice navigation, at 28% brightness, 80% volume, phone on, 1 hour of usage takes about 20% of battery power. So i can use to probably 4.5 hours before I need to charge the phone
. This is good as my last axim X51v can only use up to 3.5 hours max before I need to charge. Maybe due to the fact that x51v was using bluetooth to connect to my Holux.
6. I am pretty satisfied with the GPS performance. Having used Holux GPSlim 236 before this, P535 is just a few seconds slower to lock to the satellites from cold start. At hot start however, I got the lock within 10 seconds. At warm start, the GPS can lock within less than 1 minute. I did not really measure the time but just rough side by side comparison with Holux GPS Slim 236. For those who do not know what I am talking about:-
* cold start, having the receiver turned off for 8-12 hours (I don't see why the receiver has to do a cold start when the almanac is valid for months)
* warm start, having the receiver turned of for 30 minutes
* hot start, having the receiver turned of for 15 minutes
- disclaimer - taken from wikipedia7. Camera is good. Auto focus helps a lot. Macro mode works very well. One thing user should be aware of. When I fully depressed the button to take picture, the camera waits 1 second before takes the picture. This could be an advantage to a bad thing depending on situation. Advantage is, this gives enough time for your hand to become steady for a fully focussed shot, for a camera without "anti-shake" feature. Bad thing is, say when you want to take a shot at that precise moment, the picture is 1 second slow. But nevertheless, the camera quality is way better than any of those pda phones outhere. (but I still love the k750i camera). Oh yes, the LED light is only bright enough when the room is in total darkness. (sarcasm intended). Posted some pictures below. Will attach pictures later for sample.
8. The multipurpose speaker for ringtone and sound is loud enough for me to hear. I have not had a missed call or new message that is received without my knowledge. this is with 80% volume setting. of course this might only be in my case as I am in my office, or room at home or in my car with my radio on. Also, during my visits to Jusco, Tesco and Digital Mall, I have had no problem being alerted for phone calls or message. I assume these places are moderately noisy.
9. Wifi is great. Detection for new network and connecting to network is really fast. Since it comes with G, surfing internet and transfering files are fast. Its also sensitive enough and I would say better than my previous X51V.
10. Bluetooth at 2.0 is fast and almost perfect. Sensitivity and connection wise is great. My only complain as with all other P535 owner is its crappy bluetooth headset connection. more often than don't, I feel a lot of noise but still can listen properly. the other person on the phone however is not affected. oh yes, its definitely no problem with my bluetooth headset as it worked perfectly with V3 and k750i.
Bluetooth problem solved - i recently bought myself a stereo bluetooth headset :
http://www.v-three.com/main/prod_bth_specs...i_1re_specs.xmlThe crappy connection problem was totally gone. I do not hear anymore noise at all and the voice on the other person seemed to be improved. Plus since it was stereo bluetooth capable of A2DP, the stereo music reproduction across the bluetooth was just great.
p/s - I am not recomending the brand. I am just stating that that was the model I bought and the noise problem via bluetooth was solved. Maybe other stereo bluetooth headset might also produce the same result but I am not so sure.
11. Overall feel, The phone may be squarerish but I like the design over dopods. maybe its just my preference. also, the feel of P535 is way more solid compare to dopod 818 and dopod 810 which feels plasticky. Maybe because I am used to sony clies era with the metal finishing. When you grab P535, the feel is firm and you do not feel the parts squeaking with each other.
p/s - anyone who has any question, do post it here and I will try to answer and add to this review.
updated 27th April 2007 - added on battery portion on GPS usage consumption
updated 29th April 2007 - edited error on Holux GPSlim 236. Not Holux GPSlim 240.
updated 11th May 2007 - added information on bluetooth problem that was solved
updated 27th May 2007 - apologies for the late posting of some pictures
updated 31st May 2007 - added some indoor pictures taken in KLCC
Pictures:- Note : Sorry that I forgot to turn white balance to auto. All pictures below are with "Tungsten" mode for white balance. Thus some pictures may have over saturated colors.
1. Outdoor Pictures. Taken in Gohtong Jaya on the cable car building. Dunno which floor liao. That time was just after rain. No sunny sunlight yet but good enough lighting.
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2. Indoor Pictures. Taken in KLCC. All on auto mode.
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3. Makro Pictures taken in the morning at 9.30am. Sun is behind me and very bright and yellowish.
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This post has been edited by tester1979: Jun 1 2007, 03:34 PM 
Jan 4 2007, 02:22 AM, updated 17y ago
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? And not alignment? If alignment, that the issue that plagued the first few releases of the Dopod 838 Pro but rectified with a visit to the service centre. Maybe the new ROM Release will rectify the screen problem.
...Yes I;m using Capdase or something on my ex-hp6515...Given the RM80 case FOC once I sold the unit last week...So probably hv to look for another leather case-liow... 
OK hope I can recognize you. 
... should not have so many i guess, but still looking for the perfect contacts/ tone app.
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