ASUS, announced plans to launch its award-winning GPS smart phone in the United States early this year.
The P527 was awarded the CES Innovation Design and Engineering award for 2008. The global GPS phone has Travelog and Location Courier features. 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.
The P527 combines the features of a cell phone, navigator and PDA is the first ASUS cellular product to launch in the United States.