Mypal A730 Could Be Anybody’s Best Friend
Posted January 31st, 2007 by Marius TrusculescuI have a great little device for you now, the Mypal A730 Pocket-PC launched by Asus. Going by today’s trend, Asus managed to include a lot of functions inside this small stylish apparatus.
But it’s not the design I intend to present as the specs of the A730 are by far more appealing and I’ll try to convince of this by enumerating just a few of them. Let’s start with the 1.3 MP camera meant for taking beautiful pictures and for recording small videos that you can later admire on the 3.7″ (640×480) LCD color display.
For wireless connectivity we have only Bluetooth support so the device is lacking a WiFi card which could be a major disadvantage. Realizing this Asus included WiFi 802.11 b in the A730W version but the a and g standards are still unsupported. An Intel XScale PXA270 520 MHz provides the computing power of this device. For expanding the 64 MB of built-in memory Asus added memory card slots for CF and SD cards.
The operating system for the A730 is the Microsoft Windows Pocket PC 2003 that comes with a lot of extra applications like the software for editing Word, Excel documents or the Windows Media Player for music and video playback. As for the picture taking and video capturing there some Asus programs that can even allow editing on the pocket PC.
Overall, this device is a pretty nice device that tries and succeeds to deliver both a multimedia experience and true PC funtions, but it has a major disadvantage in the reduced support for WiFi connectivity.
