Asus India has made announcement about the launching of its ‘P526 PDA’ phone that will be available through IDLDPL (India Digital Life Style Distributors Private Limited) in the country.

The company’s new phone weighs just 115g, and meaures110 mm x 58 mm x 15.4 mm. It’s really a perfect mix of affordability, style and power.

Available in Silver Gray color, the P526 PDA phone comes with numeric keypad, Windows Mobile 6 Professional, GPS, and lots of messaging features.

The P526 has software that allows users to have the freedom of keying in text utilizing ‘T9’. Additionally, its 2 mega pixels camera also has the capability to back up still- and video- recording. The full screen preview helps users to take pictures whereas an image editor helps edit the images without much effort.

Altaf Ansari, Product Manager, PDA Business, Asus India, mentioned, “The ASUS P526 PDA is a stylish gadget for people on the move and who prefer to remain connected at all times through online communities, instant messengers, blog updates, emails and files transfers. Productivity is also enhanced though built in applications like GPS.”

The users remain connected with communities by just incorporating the P526’s popular ‘Windows Live mobile services’ and this will also help them in finding any type of information without any difficulty.

The new PDA mobile phone features a MPEG4 that backs up 30 FPS QCIF video/Windows Media Player 10, and these help music lovers to listen favorite songs in different formats such as MP3, WMA, AAC, Midi, and WMV. The device accepts Micro-SD external storage as well as the 64MB of integral memory.

The other features include battery - 1300 mAh Lithium-Ion, messaging - SMS/MMS/Email/MSN, Java - Supports J2ME (CLDC 1.1 + MIDP 2.0), Transfer Interface - USB v1.1 / Bluetooth 1.2, Ring Tones - 128 Polyphonic MIDI ring tones, supports MIDI/MP3/WMA/WAV/AAC/ AAC+/AMR and other music formats, Business Functions - Remote Presenter (Using Bluetooth technology, connects with paired PC, the P526 wirelessly controls the PC’s PowerPoint slides, PIM/Office - IE, Word, Excel, Power Point (viewer), MSN, Alarm, Calendar, Organizer, File Manager, Telephone Book, Notebook, Inbox, Voice Recognition and many others.

Surinder Saini, Asst Vice President, Sales-IDLDPL, said, “The ASUS P526 is definitely the trendy option for PDA users who want powerful performance coupled with a slim and fashionable outlook. IDLDPL has a very good chain of distribution system, I am optimistic that ASUS P526 will garner a very big market share soon.”

IDLDPL offers the new Asus P526 PDA phone in the Indian market at Rs 18,990 with an MOP of Rs 16,990