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P835 that was officially announced in March has now reached the Indian shores. The phone also known as Galaxy packs in a vivid 3.5-inch WVGA screen with Asus’ in-house Glide UI, Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, 5 megapixel camera, trackball, high speed HSDPA and doubles as Wi-Fi Access Point for up to 10 devices that can share the phone’s cellular data connection over Wi-Fi.

The phone will sell for Rs. 31,900 ($647).

Specifications:

Networks: HSPA (DL: 7.2Mbps, UL: 2Mbps), UMTS 900/1900/2100, EDGE/GPRS/GSM 850/900/1800/1900, Class 12
Operating System: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Color: Black
Form factor: Bar type
Dimensions: 115mm x 59mm x 13.8mm
Weight: 148g (with battery)
Standby Time: 350hrs with 3G and 300hrs with 2G
Talk Time: 6hrs with 3G and 7hrs with 2G
Display: 3.5” TFT, 65K-color Touchscreen, WVGA (800 x 480 pixels)
Processor: Qualcomm 7201A 528MHz
Memory: 4GB Internal Storage + 288MB SDRAM + 256MB ROM
Expansion Slot: MicroSD with SDHC support
Connectivity: WLAN 802.11b+g , USB v2.0, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
WAP Browser: HTTP / WAP 1.2.1/2.0
Messaging: SMS / MMS / Email / MSN / Push Email
Battery: 1100mAh Lithium
GPS: Yes (AGPS supported)
Camera: 5 Megapixel Auto Focus
Video Record: MPEG4/H.263
Playback: MPEG4/H.264/H.263/WMV
Video Call, Audio/Video Streaming
Picture Format: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP
Audio Format: MP3, WMA, WAV, AMR, AAC and AAC+
JAVA J2ME (CLDC 1.1 + MIDP2.0)

Business Applications: PIM, Word (editor), Excel (editor), PowerPoint (viewer), Adobe Reader, Windows Live, MSN, Voice Commander and Push Email (Exchange Server).
Other Features: Opera browser, Wi-Fi Access Point, YouTube, Flickr, ASUS Virtual Keyboard, Anytime Launcher, ASUS Today, EziMusic, EziPhoto, Google search and RSS Reader.