Gizmo Hunter

ASUS, today announced plans to launch its award-winning GPS smart phone in the United States early this year.

The P527 took home the prestige of CES Innovation Design and Engineering award for 2008. This latest cellular innovation from ASUS is designed to provide users with simple access to the latest GPS technology. Among the host of versatile functions, Travelog and Location Courier have been crowned as the most unique features on the P527. While Travelog enables users to record travel routes and export data to Google Earth, Location Courier serves as a S.O.S. device to send a user’s GPS position to five preset phone numbers. In such cases of emergency, SMS messages will be delivered to the preset receivers with a touch of a button.

Deftly packaged in a compact and stylish form factor, the P527 combines the features of a cell phone, navigator and PDA. It is the ideal personal gadget for users who enjoy efficiency on the go, and is also the first ASUS cellular product to launch in the United States.

ASUS has released the world’s first EN8800GT graphics card with 1GB of Qimonda memory: The EN8800GT/HTDP/1G. Rocking NVIDIA’S latest generation Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and an unparalleled amount of memory, this card is designed to provide a feature-rich DirectX 10 gaming and multimedia playback experience at ultra-high resolutions and maximum quality settings. Additionally, with the new integrated SmartDoctor feature, users have the option to overclock the Shader Clock to achieve graphical performance boosts of more than 10%, while the unique Glaciator Fansink keeps the GPU running at temperatures that are up to 7ºC cooler than reference designed boards. (more…)

To cater to users who require a wireless USB solution that is both compact and fast, ASUS has released the ASUS WL-160N – the world’s smallest 802.11n USB 2.0 wireless card. This small and compact marvel supports the latest 802.11n draft 2.0 specifications for fast data transfers; and is fully compatible with 802.11b/g standards. (more…)

Taipei, Taiwan, November 30, 2007 – To cater to users who want to enjoy true HD audio and video in their very homes, ASUS, the leading producer of digital home solutions, has released the ASUS Digital Home System A33. This Digital Home System is able to surpass traditional definitions on media centers – integrating a HiFi 5.1 channel amplifier with the HDMI interface to deliver top-notch sound and visual effects for an astounding multimedia entertainment experience. (more…)