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Asus has announced a new Smartphone to join its range called the P565, which Asus claims is the first Smartphone to have an 800MHz processor built in. The Asus P565 also features 128MB RAM and a 2.8 inch touchscreen with Glide user interface, enabling users to quickly switch between tasks effortlessly.

Other features include HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, for all your internet and file sharing needs, as well as a 3.15 megapixel rear mounted camera for taking those spontaneous pictures and front mounted VGA camera for video calls.

Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system is running the show, which means you can synchronise it with your computer to receive work emails and documents without being in the office. Built-in GPS is also included, so you will never get lost again.

The Asus P565 measures 102 x 60.5 x 16 mm, which is small for such a powerful device and weighs in at a very light 120 grams.

The Asus P565 looks like being a viable alternative to other Smartphone’s, with its abundance of power and multitasking capabilities. There is no news on release date or network availability yet.

O2 have announced that it’s new PDA, the XDA Zest will be available on both pay and go and contract tariffs. It will be the first O2 XDA device to be offer on their pay and go tariff, and is hoped that first time PDA users will opt for the new device instead of a standard mobile phone.

The O2 XDA Zest is manufactured by computer hardware firm Asus, and is basically a re-branded version of the Asus P552w. The device features the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system, 2.8 inch touchscreen display, a 3.2 megapixel camera and secondary front camera for voice calls.

Wi-Fi and HSDPA are also supported as well as Bluetooth 2.0, USB synchronisation, built-in GPS and A-GPS, Pocket Office for viewing Word, Excel and PDF files and a media player supporting various audio and video formats. A microSD card slot is also available and can take up to 16GB of memory.

The O2 XDA Zest is due out sometime this month and will cost £249.99 on O2’s pay and go tariff, and will be free with some contracts.

Leaked specs and pictures of a new Asus Smartphone have been published on the internet. The new device is rumoured to be called the Galaxy 7 and will run the Windows Mobile operating system.

The Asus Galaxy 7 is set to rival Samsung’s Omnia i900 and features a large 3.5 inch WVGA touchscreen display combined with Asus’s Glide User Interface. Other features include a 5 megapixel camera, a trackball similar to the BlackBerry Pearl and a stainless steel body.

The user can navigate through the device using either the touchscreen or the trackball and the phone is quad-band so calls can be made and received anywhere in the world. Also crammed into the Galaxy 7 is Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Bluetooth and 4GB of internal storage for your media and data files.

3G is also supported and a microSD card slot is integrated for expanding the storage capacity. A full spec list hasn’t been released yet, nor has a release date, but several sources on the internet hint that it might be available as soon as the end of October.